Seasonal Electricity Plan Switching with Solar

LS92WTB on 21/02/2022 - 22:28

Just switched my electricity plan from an agl plan from ages ago with bill credits to the solar savers plan as it worked out cheapest over a year based on my usage and solar export from the past year's data.

The solar savers has a 20c a day higher supply charge and slightly more expensive rate per kWh than the other plans offered.

This got me thinking (now a few days later) is there a reason I couldn't switch to the cheapest agl plan for just winter in say April to August when my solar puts out f all to the grid and then switch to solar savers for sept to march and do that 2x every year?

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Comments

  • sween64 on 21/02/2022 - 23:49
    +1

    Nope, should be sweet

  • JIMB0 on 22/02/2022 - 07:23

    Sounds good. You could also pick up a sign up bonus in the process.

  • donkcat on 22/02/2022 - 10:13
    +1

    Well the worry is that they pull the solar savers plan and u cant get back onto it in spring. This has happened in Victoria where they no longer allow new sign ups for solar savers. But they have left me on the plan 36 months on so thats good

    • star-ggg on 22/02/2022 - 12:02

      Also likely they will drastically reduce the tariff for new signups as more and more ppl get solar

      • S92WTB on 23/02/2022 - 00:19

        Good points. I remember being on a 2 year plan with 16c FiT and only being able to get 12.4c plan after that. AGL current standard plans are 5c only but the solar savers is better than origin's equiv plan now (which is only 10c from memory but with lower supply charge)

  • bohn on 22/02/2022 - 11:54
    +1

    This got me thinking (now a few days later) is there a reason I couldn't switch to the cheapest agl plan for just winter in say April to August when my solar puts out f all to the grid and then switch to solar savers for sept to march and do that 2x every year?

    Many distributors have thought of this - I know on at least a few, you can only change tariffs once every 12 months. This means if you change electricity company within that 12 month period, you can only change to a plan on the same tariff. Depends if you are on a crap distributor (like I am).

  • lgacb08 on 23/02/2022 - 09:06

    Nah, just change over to the cheapest oneand repeat after 6 months, same with gas too. There's no point sticking with one provider nowadays. With the downwards trend in Fit you'll end up with lower fit anyway, unless you can lock up with high fit plan for 2 years or more it's not worth the gamble.

    • S92WTB on 23/02/2022 - 22:12

      My issue is that I'm on the agl deal where I got a discounted battery to be part of the vpp trial. That has locked me in with agl for 5 years, but only 6 months or so left until the end of the lock-in

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