Optimise the charging and discharging of your home battery.

Choose when to charge and discharge your battery, multiple times a day. Trigger charging based on the time of day,  the cost of your electricity*, or the charge in your battery. 

What does it do?

Our technology automates the charging and discharging of your home energy battery. It uses your inverters API (cloud based data connection) to read and write commands to your system, to initiate charging and discharging of the battery.

How does it schedule charging and discharge?

This depends on the level of integration with your energy supplier.

You have the most options if you have an Octopus Smart Tariff, and an Octopus Export Tariff, but you can use the service no matter what energy supplier you have.

Time Blocks.

All users can set up multiple charging and discharging schedules based on the time of day.  Each schedule is known as a time block.

Octopus Agile Customers

Those on Octopus Agile, can choose to schedule charging in the cheapest 30 minute Agile time slots for each time block scheduled. This allows the cheapest slots to be considered for the whole day, or restricted to say overnight. 

Octopus Smart Tariff's

Those on Octopus multi-rate smart tariffs such as Go, Intelligent Go, and Flux can  choose to charge below a price, so that charging only occurs during the cheap rates within a time block.

Intelligent Octopus Go

Intelligent Go customers can only trigger charge in the scheduled (normal) overnight period. The ad-hoc periods offered by Octopus when you plug-in your EV are not supported. Integration is ongoing, but as Octopus are gradually getting tighter integration with EV’s and chargers the opportunities for this may be diminishing.

Battery State of Charge

Schedule charging based on the state of charge (SoC) of your home battery. When it drops below your threshold, charge can be triggered.  

Solar Charge

You can also choose to include automatic control of your battery upper charge limit (%) when charging from the grid, based on the predicted generation from your solar panels or based on a manual limit. 

Admin Notice

New Menu Structure

In readiness for an update to the app, the following changes have been made to the menu structure.

A new top level “Schedule” menu has been added. It’s expected you will access this frequently. Under the top level “Schedule” menu you will find:

  • Schedule Summary Table (previously found under the Dashboard menu)
  • Charge and Discharge Schedule Settings (previously found as separate tabs under the settings)
  • Activity Summary (previously found under the Dashboard menu)
  • Activity Log (previously found under the Dashboard menu)

The “Settings” Menu has been renamed “MyEO Account Settings” and has been moved to the “Account” menu. It now only contains settings that you should need initially / infrequently.

Admin Notice

Octopus Economy 7 Tariff Compatibility

An issue with collecting tariff data for those on Economy 7 has been identified. At this time we can not reliably get the time periods for switching between day rates and night rates for individual accounts. As such the service is not currently compatible with Economy 7. We apologise for the inconvenience, and we are exploring ways we can resolve this. If you have subscribed and are on Economy 7 please get in touch via the contact form.