CHOICE Expert Rating
- Electricity retailers
- Synergy
- Key points
- 3 times your energy costs (tariff) for energy exported from your battery to the grid during a VPP event (minimum payment of 97c/kWh).
- Costs
- After an event you will draw power from the grid overnight (at the overnight rate). Maintain system at your cost. Provide an internet connection to the equipment.
- Customer benefits
- Will pay your charging costs + a bonus for any electricity discharged: the bonus amount is limited to a total of $250 pa. (website: Minimum of $0.97 per kWh discharged during an event). $1500 off a Plico installed system.
- Approved batteries
- AlphaESS, Redback, Sigenergy
- Approved inverter
- AlphaESS, Redback, Sigenergy
- Limitations
- "A minimum of 5% is usually reserved to protect the battery." Max 4 hours discharge during an event. Household energy priotised during an event. No drawdown if there is a blackout during an event.
- Discharge limits
- Usual minimum 5%
- Termination terms
- Your own equipment: 3 months notice from you, 1 months notice from Plico, $250 exit fee if you terminate in first 5 years. Plico installed equipment: 2 months notice. You must refund the installation discount: first 2 years $1500, 3-5 years $1000, 5-10 years $750.
- Terms and conditions
- Not online, emailed copies in test directory
- Privacy policy
- plicoenergy.com.au/privacy-statement
Subsection 1
- Battery and inverter required
- Battery and inverter installer
- N/A
- Battery and inverter supplied
- Battery and inverter source
- Not specified
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Western Australia
- ACT
- Tasmania
- Northern Territory
- New South Wales VPP incentive
- South Australia REPS
- Western Australia DEBS
- App
- Life support
