Sometimes Powertracer receives data about your energy usage - your meter data - that can’t be traded for some reason. When this happens we display it in the property view as untraded energy and we show you how much energy was untraded for the time period you are viewing.
Untraded energy can accrue when:
The meter data received was a substitution or estimate of actual energy usage
Meter data is late. It can be received by Powertracer after the trades for that day have been executed
Let’s look at the property below. There are untraded amounts for both imported and exported energy during the month.
Untraded imports are a total of 13.12kWh for the month, and untraded exports are 4.727kWh. The cause of this was due to late arriving meter data that missed the daily trade run as can be seen in the chart on Sunday March 12.
Does this happen often?
No. As seen in the chart above, there is only one day without trades due to late meter data. Substituted or estimated meter data can happen, but we don’t see it often.
What impact does untraded energy have on your bill?
Your energy retailer will simply treat this volume of energy as if it was supplied by, or sold to them according to your usual contractual agreement. Let’s say you own the property shown in the chart above. For the selected month there was 4.727kWh of untraded exported energy. If you were being paid a feed-in tariff (FiT) of 6c/kWh, then your retailer would pay you a total of 28.362c for that untraded energy.