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When I looked into it, VPPs didn't make sense. Yes, you can feed back into the grid, and get a reasonable rate, but if you feed too much, you'll end up importing energy at an even higher rate, completely wiping out any potential profit.
It only makes sense if you can import and export at the exact same rate or better, and when I tried it, there was a 20c price difference.
And the "wholesale" providers are definitely not wholesale. Amber was charging 19c at 1pm today, which is peak solar generation, where the prices should be negative.
Amber is wholesale + some other parts on top but for the most part they are wholesale, the reason prices didn't go negative is because the wholesale price didn't go negative:
https://www.aemo.com.au/Energy-systems/Electricity/National-Electricity-Market-NEM/Data-NEM/Data-Dashboard-NEM
In fact there's been so much cloud these last few weeks and the big batteries are slurping up so much power now that the price goes negative far less often these days
I'm with Flow Power, 45c a kwh export between 5:30-7:30pm
https://flowpower.com.au/residential/?I_home_page
I have a script setup that if I'm over 70% battery export 4kwh which covers my daily charge and a little bit
Lately because of all the cloud I've missed a few days and I've turned it off for the next few days because of all the cloud and rain expected in Brisbane over the next 2 days