To set up and maximise solar sharing amongst your business properties, watch our video tutorial or follow the instructions below.
First, log in to the Powertracer platform using your email address and password.
On the properties page, from the list of your business properties, select a property with solar that you would like to share excess energy from by clicking Manage Property.
On the overview page of this property, click on the Trade Rules button in the navigation bar at the top of the page.
The Trade Rules page shows you all the trade rules that have been setup for this property. As you can see, there is already one peer-to-peer trade rule to sell excess solar energy to 28 Pine St. To add a new peer-to-peer trade rule, simply click on Propose new trade.
On the propose new trade page, select the option to sell energy since this property has solar. The price is normally set at 0c/kWh to share your solar energy between your business properties.
Now select the property or trade point you are selling or sharing your solar with. Put in the email address of the person managing the property you’re trading with. If you are that person, simply enter your own email address here. Then click on Propose.
The trade rule you just proposed is now visible in the proposed trade section of the trade rules page, and will be so until either it is accepted, rejected, or you decide to cancel it yourself.
For the proposed trade to become active, it needs to be accepted by the recipient of the trade proposal. If this was you, simply click on the notification bell in the top right hand corner of the screen. This will open the current trade proposals. If the proposal was sent to a different person, that person will need to log in to accept or reject the new trade proposal.
To accept the proposal to buy excess solar for one of your business properties, simply click on the arrow next to the Accept button to choose the property and meter that will be buying the excess solar energy.
When the proposed trade is accepted it appears in the list of agreed peer-to-peer trades and will be active in the 30 minute interval after the time of acceptance.
It’s worth knowing that:
The recipient can choose to reject the trade proposal by simply clicking the Reject button.
Powertracer sends an email to the recipient notifying them of the trade proposal. If the recipient was you there is no need to access the email as accepting the trade proposal can be done in the platform.
Now our chosen exporting property has two peer-to-peer trade rules to sell energy.
In order to setup trades to sell energy to all business properties, simply repeat this process for each one. When this is complete, you can check that your exporting properties are selling energy to all others by viewing the trade rules for your exporting property.
Remember, your selling properties can also buy export energy from any other properties that you have with solar too.