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Solar panels automation

This automation controls how Currentt handles the output of your solar panels.

📋 Overview​

With the solar panels automation, Currentt automatically adjusts the feed-in from your inverter based on a balancing mode and an optional tariff condition. This allows you to prevent excess energy from being fed back to the grid, for example.

Note

For some features to work correctly, the energy tariffs of the relevant location must be available. Make sure the correct energy tariffs have been entered in the Currentt App.

Solar panels automation

🎛️ Possibilities​

Inverter​

You select for which inverter this automation will be applied.

Balancing mode​

You choose how Currentt limits the feed-in from the solar panels:

  • Zero feed-in total – The balancing mode is applied to the total system. Currentt tries to prevent any net energy from being fed back to the grid.
  • Zero feed-in per phase – The balancing mode is applied per phase and tries to prevent feed-in on each individual phase.
  • Per phase – The balancing mode is applied per phase and tries to ensure that energy is drawn from the grid on every phase.

Tariff condition​

With the optional tariff condition, the automation only runs when the energy price is below a set threshold. Set the price threshold to €0 / kWh to only activate the automation when energy prices are negative — that is, when you have to pay to deliver energy to the grid.

📝 Managing automations​

Adding an automation​

  1. Go to Automations within your installation.
  2. Click + to add a new automation.
  3. Select Solar panels as the type and click Next.
  4. Under Inverter, choose the inverter you want to control and click Next.
  5. Give the automation a recognizable name and click Next.
  6. Choose the desired balancing mode and click Next.
  7. Optionally enable the Tariff option and set the price threshold.
  8. Click + Create to save the automation.

Editing an automation​

Open the relevant automation and adjust the desired settings. Each step has a Save & close button that saves your changes immediately without having to go through all steps again.