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Make it yours
Confirm your tariff, connect supported equipment and choose your reserves, charging needs and automation permissions.
Learn · Explore the app
Get to know VPPiQ Home.
Try the examples. Explore your choices. See how tariffs, battery priorities and charging goals come together in the app.
These educational walkthroughs use illustrative scenarios. They do not connect to your account or change your equipment.
Inside VPPiQ HomeYour day. Every decision connected.
Set the direction. Let the plan take shape.
Less daily juggling.
Still your choices.
Your energy needs change through the day. VPPiQ Home brings your household patterns, expected sunshine and confirmed tariff together, then plans within your preferences and equipment limits.
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Give the plan context
Usable household history and forecasts help VPPiQ Home understand what your home may need and when.
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Let it work around you
Once ready and enabled, supported automation follows the plan. As conditions change, the next plan can adapt.
Set and Forget starts with a good setup. You stay in control, and changed tariff terms still need your review.
Setup questionsComplex tariff. Clearer decisions.
Your tariff has details.
Your plan considers them.
A cheap hour is only useful if it fits your home. Explore how different tariff rules can change when energy is used, stored or brought in from the grid.
01 / Your tariff, understood
Prepare before the pressure.
Some tariffs charge for demand as well as energy. VPPiQ Home can prepare stored energy ahead of a demand window, then use what is available to help reduce grid demand.
Your battery plan considers the demand window before it arrives.
Grid import may still be needed. Equipment limits and your reserve apply; demand-charge dollar savings are not calculated here.
How the plan can respondIllustrative example
The window that matters
4 pm–9 pmDemand window
Battery plan
Before 4 pm: prepare stored energy where useful. From 4–9 pm: avoid battery grid charging and use available stored energy to help reduce grid demand.
Times shown in the home’s local time. Illustrative timings and amounts.
Explore the idea, not a live tariff quote. Your actual plan depends on your confirmed tariff, forecasts, preferences, equipment and available data.
Battery & inverter intelligence
Same battery.
Your kind of plan.
Hold more energy back. Use more of your sunshine. Give price opportunities more room. Choose the priorities that suit your household, within the limits you set.
Know what your system can do.
Check your supported inverter and battery setup: available energy, capacity, power limits and supported controls.
Keep your essentials protected.
Set your household reserve and permissions for grid charging and stored-battery export. Equipment limits still apply to every mode.
Make the trade-offs yours.
A profile helps rank the valid choices. It never unlocks a prohibited action or turns on automation by itself.
Balanced · Planning priorities
A little of everything. In balance.
Bring bill reduction, solar use and reserve protection into the same decision. Balanced looks for worthwhile opportunities without making every price change a reason to act.
- Use solar at home and store useful surplus
- Consider grid charging when the value justifies it
- Keep stored-energy export selective
The trade-offMay pass up smaller trading opportunities to keep the plan more measured.
Your boundaries stay in placeIllustration
20%
Example household reserve
The same household reserve across all three managed examples. Each mode adds its own planning buffer above this. Changing mode does not remove the reserve.
Device minimums also apply. The strongest applicable reserve sets the lower limit.
How the priorities can play out
Same kind of day. A different approach.
Meet home needs
Use available stored energy above your reserve.
Use & store solar
Keep useful surplus for later household demand.
Support your home
Use stored energy when it helps avoid higher import prices.
Keep tomorrow in view
Consider useful charging while protecting the next day’s position.
Sunny midday, higher evening import prices, and a connected battery. Managed examples assume grid charging and stored-energy export are permitted; each mode can still decline them. Actual timing and actions depend on your whole plan.
You choose how far it goes
A planning mode sets priorities.
Intelligence controls the next step.
Understand the plan before it acts.
Preview lets you observe and review plans without automatically applying them. Your selected battery mode still shapes the plan you see.
Website example only. This control does not enable automation.
A reserve is a planning boundary. Supplying your home during a power cut also requires compatible backup hardware and installation.
Check supported equipmentEV charging · Built around your next drive
A time to leave.
A plan to charge.
Tell VPPiQ Home the charge you want and when you need it. Then choose whether earlier charging, forecast solar or lower-cost opportunities matter most.
Your car’s needs become part of the household plan, alongside solar, battery use and electricity prices.
Tomorrow starts with a plan.Your next drive, considered
Set a goal.
Explore the possibilities.
Try an illustrative day. These choices do not change your car or account.
A weekday routine: repeat this target and local ready-by time, Monday to Friday.
Every example assumes the car stays plugged in at home from the selected time until its deadline.
One day in your weekday routineIllustrative plan
Example charge by 5 pm80%
Target fits this example80% requested · starts at 40%
Starting charge + planned charging Target marker: 80%
Lowest Cost
Aim for the ready-by target using lower-cost opportunities. VPPiQ Home considers the whole plan and available time, with demand and price-spike restrictions still applying.
Forecast surplus solar · stronger at midday
ChargingConnected & before deadlineLower-price period: noon–4 pm
Example charging windows12 pm–4 pm
Enough room in this simplified day.
Waiting for value can move charging later. The target still depends on the car being connected and enough charging capacity.
What is behind this example?
A 60 kWh usable battery starts at 40%. The example allows a constant 6 kW reaching the battery, without tapering or interruptions. All power and energy figures, including solar, are battery-side amounts after losses. Each hour has a fixed illustrative price ranking and a forecast of surplus solar left after other household use. Noon–4 pm is the lower-price period; these are not actual tariff rates.
Fastest selects the earliest available hours. Lowest Cost selects the lower-price hours first. Solar Preferred uses only the example surplus-solar forecast. This teaching model does not reproduce VPPiQ Home’s optimiser, completion buffers, demand restrictions or equipment controls. Actual charging depends on connection, vehicle limits, forecasts, tariffs, permissions and available household power.
All times are local to the example home. Recurring and one-off choices demonstrate goal types; the same selected day has the same energy calculation. No costs, savings or vehicle range are estimated.
Charging profiles express priorities, not a guaranteed charge level. Supported vehicle connections and household setup determine which actions are available.
Check EV compatibilityAutomation, with room for real life
Let the plan help.
Keep the final say.
Some days call for a different choice. Understand your manual settings, make a supported change, and know what happens when you return to the plan.
Your choice, with a clear handover.
Educational walkthroughBattery setup
Set the boundaries first.
Configure supported battery work modes, reserves and daily schedule windows. Check the controls available for your inverter and keep manual configuration distinct from your planning profile.
- Review the reserve you want to retain
- Review work modes and daily schedule windows
- Keep grid-charge and stored-energy export permissions clear
Normal work-mode and minimum-charge settings require scheduling to be inactive. Supported controls depend on your equipment; physical limits still apply.
Explore how control works. These buttons explain the journey; they do not operate your battery or car.
Clarity, before and after
Understand the why.
Look back at what happened.
A useful energy plan should be understandable. Mia, your virtual energy assistant, helps you explore the reasoning; History gives you context from recorded energy and outcomes.
Ask. Understand. Decide.
Mia, your virtual energy assistant
Mia helps you understand your home’s energy and the thinking behind your plan. For supported changes, she prepares a proposal for you to review and confirm.
Example question for Mia
“Why is my battery charging now?”
Put a decision into words.
Mia can help explain a plan using available household context, such as energy needs, prices and priorities. Ask for the reasoning behind what you see.
- 01Ask about your plan
- 02Review the available evidence
- 03Understand the reason
Illustrative workflow, not a customer conversation. Explanations depend on the evidence available to Mia.
History
Look back with context.
See where your energy went.
Explore recorded solar generation, home use, grid imports and battery contribution. Look across days to see your household’s rhythm and energy sources.
- 01Choose a month
- 02Explore daily flows
- 03Look for recurring patterns
Recorded history depends on available telemetry. Missing data should not be read as zero use.
Put it together in VPPiQ Home
Ready to explore your own home?
Check your supported equipment and bring your household priorities into the app.
Check compatibility