“Monitoring your power system”

RedEarth’s monitoring system got a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shout out on episode 14 of The Block this year, and we’d like to tell you a little bit more about it… Especially as we’ve actually upgraded from the software that was used during filming, and have a new and improved version.

With so many current and potential opportunities available to customers in how to monetise their energy, RedEarth has developed RedPi – a monitoring solution that connects to and reads the inverters in our systems and sends that data back to us.

With this data, we’ve created a simple interface in our app to make it easy for our customers to keep an eye on their energy usage, so they can make decisions to optimise their electricity using real-time information about how much solar energy they’re generating and consuming.

Whilst Red Earth’s app isn’t the that does this, of course… but here’s where they go further and help our customers be their own power plant and make money from their electricity.

Through our EMU (energy monetisation unit) ecosystem, we can also help customers take advantage of unusual market conditions in order to make money from their excess solar. One of the ways they do this is by trading energy using a smart algorithm which understands a customer’s regular energy usage, and predicts market conditions to export excess energy at the highest peak price to maximise earnings from feed-in rates into the grid.

Does energy trading really work? Well… one of RedEarth’s team members tested it and made over $200 in one day – and that was without solar panels, just through storing electricity in batteries and charging and discharging them according what the energy market was doing.