It is now possible to compare multiple tariff plans over a longer period of time, up to 31 days.
On the Daily Page click on Plan Cost
Click on the plan names below the graph to load the cost comparison - the below shows 3 plans compared. The longer the gold bars the better the plan compared to the baseline / historic cost.
The date period can be changed via Customise
Handy feature for plan change assessment. However, when I compare my current plan with previous plan, exports and imports values do not match?
It appears the system has no live consumption data or entered manually.
This is required to calculate the import which is 0Wh for all days listed.
Yes, sbfspot does not support consumption data uploads, so I update daily export & import data manually. The manual data is not considered for this comparison?
Cheers
It seems like there is an issue with the comparison values. When I compare the âCurrentâ to the Current Active Plan (which right now is âSCE Summerâ), there is a variance in the Credit / Debit amount, which affects the Balance and Saving columns. Shouldnât the Balance be the same and the Saving be $0 if comparing to the same plan?
The credit / debit DOES match up on the weekends (see the highlights on the images), just not the weekdays. Do I have the tariffâs loaded incorrectly? Note that the Import / Export values are correct on all days. - Thanks
Only the 5-minute data for both generation and consumption is considered as this determines the final export/import value on each day.
For this particular setup the recorded export/import should just be multiplied by the selected plan tariff rates, ignoring the live generation data.
Looks like a bug which treated all days as the weekend!
Itâs fixed now, thanks for reporting the issue -
It is now possible enable the No Recalcuation option via the Customise to calculate plan tariffs using the existing export/import data, which will work with manual entries.
Mate, that is great! Thanks for catering for this scenario. Checked and it seems to all good.
Is the 31 day restriction due to limiting performance impact on your hosting hardware?
Only change plans once a year, so not a real drama to manually assess each month individually, if that is the compromise.
Plan comparisons are a little data intensive since every 5-minute data point needs to be retrieved and processed.
Fantastic, Thanks for providing this.
I had been wondering about how I could compare plans and pvoutput has made it easy.
I did need a few extra steps, including loading multiple tariffs and had to reset the calculations, but now it is working a treat and has confirmed my suspicions I donât want to switch to TOU.
Has this been removed? I do not have a âplan costâ button anywhere?
Itâs still there. Make sure you are on the âDailyâ view. That is the only view that the Plan Cost is visible for.
Edit: The help file indicates that Tariff Plan comparisons are a Donation feature.
not sure if somethings wrong or i have done something wrong.
my âcurrentâ plan doesnt seem to add up correctly⌠not sure if my plan isnât what I think it is or it calculates incorrectly.
[Origin TOU 16c FIT] is my current plan and set as active as far as im aware but when I compare my current plan to the old plan and the Origin TOU 16c FIT (current) plan they are all reading different where current and Origin TOU 16c FIT should be the same�
EDIT:
ok so for some reason I had to add my FIT generation credit into all the slots in my tariff plan⌠even the ones that donât have TOU. and seems to work now.
I have donated, I havenât been updated as having so yet. I was for the last year except for about 4 days (didnât realise it had expired).Donated again yesterday.
" Donation bonus features are activated immediately and expire in 1 year.
"
This has not happened for me
My current donation status says
This donation will expire on 13 Apr 2023
The link only appears when the system has least one tariff plan first and enable it for the system.
Thanks.
honestly,
I canât figure this out at all. I enter a tariff plan (actually I created a âtestingâ complete system with new tariffâs) yet it just wonât pick up any import, only export.
Pretty frustrating to be honest.
Also this âplan costâ button still only shows on my âtestingâ system, not my normal âActiveâ system
Do you have the tariffs set for both the âCredit Ratesâ (generation/export) and âDebit Ratesâ (consumption/import)?
Plans are systems based, you will also need to add plans for the âActiveâ system.
