Smart Connect Solar & Battery

The SGD is a small communication device that connects your solar and battery assets to Horizon Power's energy management system.

When energy management is needed, smart connected solar systems will have the amount of solar energy generated reduced. This applies to both the energy used and the exported amount.

This amount is the same across all smart connected systems in the town, so it's fair.

Horizon Power assets, like our solar and wind farms will be turned down first - so we can minimise the impact of energy management on customer systems.

No.

• Horizon Power assets, like our solar and wind farms will be turned down first - so we can minimise the impact of energy management on customer systems.
• Customer systems that are smart connected- will be energy managed the same amount in the town, so it's fair.

Yes. You can view how much you’ve been energy managed each month by logging into My Account.

Navigate to the Usage section and select 'Insights' and open the section 'Monthly summary':

Yes. Your installer will configure the battery system settings during installation - as per our technical requirements. This means your system:

• won't export any excess energy to the network during the sunniest part of the day; or
• charge during the network peak in the afternoon between 3pm - 9pm (when the whole community uses the most energy at once).

Keeping your data safe is our priority. Your solar and battery assets connect to our energy management system via the Secure Gateway Device (SGD).

This has embedded cyber security to keep your solar data safe.

It can only communicate with your SGD and can’t access other devices connected to the internet such as mobile phones or laptops.

Feed In Management is an older technology we use to energy manage systems greater than 30kVA.

Horizon Power will be transitioning the old devices across to Smart Connect Solar at no additional cost to the customer.