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If you are installing a new DC coupled battery only, or upgrading by only adding a DC coupled battery, your export capacity will not be impacted. However, as the battery is storing excess energy produced by the solar PV system, there may be less excess energy to export.
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Most electricity retailers offer different feed-in tariffs as part of their energy plans. Go to the Australian Government’s Energy Made Easy website to find the best offer for you.
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The process for selecting a Dynamic Connection is much the same as applying for a fixed export connection. You buy a compliant system, your installer ensures it has an approved inverter or other gateway device, and will then submit your connection application to us.
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Refer to documentation from the manufacturer of the inverter or gateway device to understand the Dynamic Connection commissioning process.
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Our dedicated Major Connections Support Team can guide and assist you through the connection process. Please call 13 12 53 during business hours.
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You should contact your installer to confirm your new system is Dynamic Connection compliant and have them submit a connection application for your new premises to us.
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We use the listing from the Clean Energy Council to populate the inverters listed in our Customer Self Service Portal. The Clean Energy Council (CEC) has added the suffix “(AS4777-2 2020)” to the model numbers for inverters to distinguish between 2015 and 2020 compliant inverters. Please select an AS/NZS 4777.2:2020 compliant inverter from the list in the Customer Self Service Portal when you are submitting your application. The inverters are also listed on the Clean Energy Council website however, for newly listed inverters, you may need to wait a few days for the list to be updated on our Customer Self Service Portals.
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You should ask the installer for a copy of the settings that have been applied and keep this as a record of compliance. The installer has an obligation, as your agent, to ensure the correct settings are applied in accordance with the connection standard and the network connection contract that you, or someone else on your behalf, entered into.
On the day of installation of your PV system, you need to be home, and should ask the installer to thoroughly brief you on the shutdown and restart procedures, fault signs that you should look out for, and all the components.
A failure to comply with the connection standard may result in poor operation of your inverter and elevated voltages in your home, both of which can have costly impacts (e.g. premature failure of appliances).
Where relevant, your solar retailer or installer should provide you with a copy of the network connection contract entered into on your behalf. You should familiarise yourself with the technical conditions, and particularly the obligations you have under that contract.
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Manufacturers interested in gaining certification for their equipment (inverters, gateway devices) are requested to review the Smart Energy Profile (SEP2) Client Handbook (PDF 662.1 kb) and follow the steps to become a compliant provider.
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We are continuing to work toward the implementation of the Dynamic Customer Standard. We see this as an essential solution for the future and stability of the network whilst enabling greater levels of Consumer Energy Resources (CER) to be adopted, including solar PV.
However, dynamic limits are designed to maximise the interaction of inverters with the electricity network and will be applied independent of the emergency backstop mechanism.
Importantly, an emergency backstop mechanism signal will have priority over any dynamic limits and will only be used in circumstances where all other mechanisms have failed to support the security of the electricity network.