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💡Amber Electric/LocalVolts vs Flow Power

This section contains different instructions depending on whether you are using the Wholesale-exposed trading or Retail-Bill Optimisation method. Amber Electric and LocalVolts customers will use the Wholesale-Exposed Trading method, while Flow Power customers will use the Retail-Bill Optimisation method.

Configure who you buy your electricity from

This area is where you configure whether you are an Amber Electric or LocalVolts customer.

  • From the Your Electricity Provider (Select) box, select your electricity provider

Select

Select choices

  • This will change the text boxes that appear directly below. Just the appropriate boxes for your electricity provider will be shown. Leave the other electricity provider's boxes empty. Examples follow:

Amber Electric

LocalVolts

FlowPower

Globird

Amber Electric

💡How do I get an Amber Electric API Key and Site Code?

To get your Amber Electric API key:

  • Log in to your Amber Electric account at https://app.amber.com.au/developers

  • Navigate to the Developers tab "For Developers"

  • Toggle on Developer Mode

  • Click on Generate a new Token

  • Name your token and click Generate

  • Copy the generated API key - make sure to copy the entire key, including all characters, as it is unique. Once you refresh the page it will not be shown again. You will need to copy this into Energy Manager.

  • Authorise the API key (known as a token). Paste your api key/token into the value box, if not already there.

  • Scroll down and enter your Amber login account name into the CLIENT_ID box and your Amber login password to the CLIENT_SECRET box.

  • Tick all the boxes underneath the boxes.

  • Scroll back up to the top of the Authorizations popout box and press Authorize.

  • Once authorised, click on Close (note, the Authorize button should have changed to say Logout (do not log out yet) - this is an indication that your authorisation was successful).

Amber API Key/Token

To get your Amber Electric Site Code:

  • Scroll down the same page to GET /sites within the developers area and select the green Try it out button next to it, and then select execute.

  • Copy the "id" that is shown. You will need to enter this in Energy Manager.

  • Take note that the activeFrom is very recent. If it is more than a year old, e.g., 2022, this is a dummy id and is not your id. Make sure you have selected execute and the activeFrom is very recent.

Amber Site ID

LocalVolts

💡How do I obtain a LocalVolts Partner ID, Key, and NMI?

  • The Partner ID and API Key can be obtained by filling in the form at https://localvolts.com/localvolts-api/

  • The NMI can be taken from a past electricity bill from any provider. Some people have found it works fine with just * as the NMI

LocalVolts Request

Flow Power

There is no Electricity Provider API key to enter for Flow Power, but there are additional settings that need to be configured appropriately as per your Flow Power tariff:

Flow Power Configuration

  1. Enter your Peak Start Time, usually 5:30pm
  2. Enter your Peak End Time, usually 7:30pm
  3. Enter your Buy Price, in cents, as supplied to you by Flow Power. This is usually 34c.
  4. Enter your Off-peak Feed-in Price, as supplied to you by Flow Power. This is usually 0c.
  5. Enter your Peak Feed-in Price, as supplied to you by Flow Power. This is usually either 35c or 45c.
  6. If you want to export during the peak period, enable Allow peak exporting
  7. Set the percent of your export limit that you would like to export at during Normal weather (as opposed to Bad weather). Normally you would want your full export, so set this as 100.
  8. There is the option to continue to export if the system is in bad weather mode, or to disable exports completely. If you select to export during bad weather, you will have the option to specify the percentage of your maximum export limit to export at. This can come in handy if you want to reserve more of your battery storage for your own usage, but still want a smaller amount to be exported.
Globird

There is no Electricity Provider API key to enter for Globird, but there are additional settings that need to be configured appropriately as per your Globird ZeroHero tariff:

Globird Configuration

  1. Enter the Peak period start time
  2. Enter the Peak period end time
  3. Enter the Peak period buy price
  4. Enter the Free period start time
  5. Enter the Free period end time
  6. Enter the Free period buy price (this should be zero for free)
  7. Enable the Free Buy Period automations, if you want to purchase free energy (this should be enabled)
  8. Enter the Other period buy price. This is all times not part of the Peak or Free buy periods.

Globird Configuration

  1. Enter the Super Sell period start time
  2. Enter the Super Sell period end time
  3. Enter the Super Sell Period sell price
  4. Enter the amount of energy you xan export at the Super Period sell price (usually 10kWh)
  5. Enter the Super Sell period weighting of your export kW. 100% equals full speed export.
  6. Enable to allow your Super Period exports (this should normally be enabled)
  7. Enter the Standard Sell period start time
  8. Enter the Standard Sell period end time
  9. Enter the Standard Sell period sell price
  10. Enter the Standard Sell period export kW weighting. 100% equals full speed export.
  11. Enable to allow export during the Standard Sell period
  12. Enable the Only Export Excess Solar if you want to export excess solar only, and not from your battery

Globird Configuration

  1. Enter the Other period sell price (normally 0c)
  2. Enter the Other period export kW percent to restrict exports (usually set to 0%)
  3. Enable curtailing for the Other period (usually curtail as the sell price is generally 0c)
  4. If there is going to be bad weather, restrict your export rate by this percentage (to allow you to keep more stored energy for yourself)

Your Electricity provider

Set electricity provider specific settings

Globird Configuration

  1. Enter any daily charge that is on top of your per kWh rates
  2. Enter your monthly billing day

Your Electricity Distributor

Configure who your electricity distributor is

This area is where you configure who your electricity distributor is. This is used so that the Energy Manager servers can work out when your demand period is, if any, so it can aim to have your batteries charged (if required) before your demand period starts, and also stops importing (if it was) 5 minutes before the demand period starts, just to be sure you aren't taking from the grid during your demand period. Days of the week and seasons are taken into consideration for your demand period, if it varies during the year.

  • Select whether you are on a demand tariff or not. If in doubt, select that you are, but check with your electricity provider (Amber, LocalVolts or Flow Power) to confirm.
  • Select your electricity dstributor from the list

Distributor


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