Chris from Amber Electric

Some of my friends think it's a bit comical that I'm in a Facebook community group about my electricity retailer. But I really do believe that what @AmberElectricAU is doing in Australia is something special. The news that Amber have completed their Series C funding round is very exciting for them. For those that don't know, Amber is an electricity retailer that sells power based on wholesale prices that, in Australia, change every 5 minutes. In my home I have 4.3kW of solar panels, 27kWh of batteries and a 7kWh PHEV. I'm able to allow Amber's SmartShift technology to buy and sell power at variable rates across the day, literally buying when the price is low (sometimes negative) and selling back to the grid when the price is high (sometimes very high). My total electricity bill for 2023, which covered our entire home plus probably 80% of our driving, was $280. As far as I'm aware, there is no other retailer in the world offering a system as sophisticated as Amber. Deploying more renewable and batteries is obviously very important but being smarter about how we use electricity, by time-shifting demand, is also of huge importance. I noted a few things from today's fundraising announcement: Amber has over 30,000 customers and 50% of those joined in the past 6 months. The lead investor, Gentrack, has "cemented a strategic partnership with Amber to bundle its billing and customer care with Amber’s battery and EV automation software". That sounds promising with respect to further improving customer service. Amber is "now at the stage where we are ready to licence our technology globally." For my friends overseas, I think this is great news. $29 million is a lot but I'm sure they'll have plans to spend that pretty quick. I look forward to the next stage of Amber's (r)evolution. amber.com.au/blog/asx-gentr…

Congrats @AmberElectricAU (SM alumni MEL18) on the $29m raise 🔥 afr.com/technology/the…

Terrific chatting to @Gentrack's Gary Miles and @AmberElectricAU 's Dan Adams about their plans to take their bundled Aussie battery automation and customer care platform to the world's utilities, leveraging the world-leading growth of rooftop solar ... afr.com/technology/the…

Exciting news! Amber has raised $29M in Series C funding to scale in Australia, launch our EV product & go global! Thanks to our lead investors @Gentrack and Rubio Impact, Alberts, and Startmate who are also investing in this round. amber.com.au/blog/asx-gentr…

@TeslaStraya @AmberElectricAU Yeah some generators are playing some really weird games this evening!

The grid is going bat shit crazy at the moment. Over $1 import last 30 minutes, -44c this 30 minutes. Glad to see @AmberElectricAU charging my batteries so I can get paid for it!

@Pablos_Broke @AmberElectricAU @Pablos_Broke - want to DM your account details and we'll look into it. It might be that the network has automatically changed your tariff type for some reason but we'll investigate and see if we can get it changed back.

EV owner added 120kWh to his electric car battery from his home charger in September, mostly with grid power, for a total cost of just $1.90.. ow.ly/zIim50PSfG0

@vijvis @AmberElectricAU Hi Vijay. We can certainly help you with that (although there is usually a cost associated from the networks/metering company for this). Do you want to email us at info@amber.com.au and we can let you know how much it would be?

@AmberElectricAU @chrisfromamber hi, how do I request for a meter change over from single phase to three phase, please? Thanks.

🔋 ⚡️ 🔌 What does it cost to charge an EV? Well in June I paid an average of $0.10 kw/h for ⚡️ 717kw/h was used to charge my two 3’s 644kw/h (90%) came from the grid ($64.4) My M3P uses 19kw/h per 100km ($1.71) ⛽️ 🚘 👇 9L per 100km = $1.90 (per litre) x 9L = $17.10 🤮

Probably the shittiest month of the year for an energy bill in Australia (less solar, more consumption) and I’ve still managed a $248 credit taking my grand total account credit to $3330 😍☀️🔋 @AmberElectricAU @chrisfromamber @johnbarton @teslaenergy @Tesla @elonmusk

@MarkSPurcell @TeslaStraya @AmberElectricAU This duck-annihilation curve from last week quacked me up - mid-winter no less! 60 kWh/350km into the car and a toasty house over night. All for the princely sum of minus 13 dollars with total emissions under 7 kg CO2eq. A good example of solar sponge and timeshifted exports.

One of the things I love about being an @AmberElectricAU customer is being able to easily choose the best times to use energy based on renewables and price. Yesterday was a pretty power hungry day but using some common sense and Amber’s SmartShift technology, I only “paid” $5.23. Which included adding 400+km of range to my brand new @Tesla Model Y. I currently have an account credit if $3081.90 and no doubt today I’ll make up for yesterdays “cost” @chrisfromamber @johnbarton

I’m appreciating the regular updates to the @AmberElectricAU app Now the app explains how Smartshift for Batteries is intelligently controlling battery energy import and export to maximise earnings. So useful. So cool

@binaryADD @AmberElectricAU Hey @binaryADD - I suspect this will be the 1st of July switch across to new tariffs and pricing. Sometimes the networks change some of their tariff codes, and so we need to update our mapping to capture. Unfortunately 1 July was a Sat, but we'll be fixing Monday if that's ok.

Charged both my cars 🚘, my PowerWall 🔋 had the aircon cranking all day 🔥, used the dryer and washing machine for a couple loads, and kept a shit load of beer 🍺 cool 🧊. How am I going to afford this 🤔 Maybe I should start paying $100 for tank⛽️ @AmberElectricAU

Imagine going to the ⛽️ station and getting paid to fill up your 🚗 ⁦@AmberElectricAU⁩

@karl_hage @Pablos_RoundUp @AmberElectricAU We sure do - if you're on a premium FIT we pass that through and then just add the wholesale part on top

@Pablos_RoundUp @AmberElectricAU One for @AmberElectricAU do you provide the government feed in Tarif? I’m on a legacy clause till 2028?

Thanks for the follow @AmberElectricAU 👋

Yea the @tesla life is a hard one. Especially being paid to get your ⚡️ Wish I could be paying almost $1.80 a litre for⛽️ …….. not! The sooner the 🌎 transitions to sustainable energy the better 👍

Another great week; displacing coal and gas generation. Thanks @AmberElectricAU what a great model to drive the transition to sustainable energy.

Dammit, another electricity bill arrived 😏