New: the federal battery rebate pays the full rate on the first 14 kWh, the exact size of the ElektroBank 14, and steps down over time.

for homes losing a premium fit

Your premium feed-in tariff is ending. Keep the value.

Once your generous feed-in tariff ends, every kWh you export will be worth almost nothing. The smartest move is to stop exporting your solar, and start using more of it. A Home Energy Management System (HEMS) helps you use more of your excess solar PV by shifting the usage times of your major electricity devices, including water heating and Level 2 EV charging.

Why now

Avoid the Feed-in Tariff Cliff
When the premium rate ends, your solar economics change overnight. Adding a storage enabled HEMS before then means you keep capturing the value instead of giving it away.

Export after your premium FiT ends

≈ a few c/kWh

Use it yourself instead

Avoids peak rates

With a HEMS

Shifts water heating and EV charging

Best on

ToU / wholesale plans

Battery rebate

Maxed at 14 kWh

A stored kWh used at peak is worth far more than an exported one.

The opportunity, and how you can capture it

The opportunity

Premium feed-in tariffs are being wound back. Without them, exporting surplus solar returns almost nothing, and your solar ROI changes. Adding a HEMS enables more of your solar PV excess to be used, reduces your water heating and EV charging costs, and minimises solar PV exports.

Why typical approaches fall short

Solar without storage has no choice but to export at whatever the grid pays. You then buy power back later at peak rates, the worst of both sides. Typical solar-batteries do not support HEMS, leaving money on the table.

How Empower solves it

Store your solar in a 14 kWh battery and let the HEMS discharge it when prices are highest, while moving your water heating and Level 2 EV charging to the remaining times when there is surplus PV generation.

Before you lose your fit

See what you could save with a solar battery with a built-in HEMS

Compare exporting your solar at the new low rate vs. storing and using it. The gap is usually bigger than people expect.

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