Making The Most Of Your Electricity; Generation Vs. Import - Geo Chorus PV display User Manual

Making the most of your electricity

To save the most money on your bills and
have the least impact on the environment,
you should aim to use as much of your own
generated electricity as possible.
Generation vs. Importing
Of course your PV array will generate the
most amount of electricity during bright
sunny days, so that's when you'll have
the most to use. But even on cloudy days
your PV array is generating electricity for
you. As with sunny days, the best times
are in the middle of the day when the light
is strongest.
To see the balance of your generation against
use over the day, enter the electricity app by
tapping the screen.
This graph shows generated electricity
along the top and imported electricity along
the bottom.
To see the biggest reduction in your bills,
you should aim to have as little as possible
in the bottom part of the graph (as this
is the electricity you're importing from
the grid).
We understand that it's not always possible
to avoid importing electricity from the
grid, especially as during the night your PV
array won't be generating at all. This makes
running lighting and heating difficult without
importing from the grid.
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However, if you tap the excess
generation button, it will highlight the
generation button
excess generated electricity in blue that
you didn't use. It's then possible to
reschedule energy-hungry tasks from the
night to the day. Using appliances like
dishwashers, tumble dryers and washing
machines in the middle of the day will
make sure they use generated electricity
rather than imported grid electricity. Some
appliances, like dishwashers, now have
timer delay features, so you could set them
to run when it's most efficient to do so.
To help determine when it's best to turn
on energy-heavy appliances, the Chorus
has a generation threshold indicator.
You can see this in the centre of the
electricity dial when you're generating
significantly more electricity than your
house is using at that time. Whenever you
see this symbol you should think about
turning on an energy-heavy appliance.
The default generation threshold is set to
show when you are generating 0.750kW
more than you are using. This is enough
to cover a significant amount of electricity
used by one energy-heavy appliance. For
example, it will cover most of the cost of
running one cycle of a washing machine.
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