AmberElectric

Published by: Amber Electric Pty

Description

Amber is an Aussie-owned electricity provider and a tech company on a mission to shift Australia to 100% renewables faster. We do this by rewarding customers with savings when they use energy when it’s greener and cheaper and by providing them with smart tech that makes doing this super simple. For those with solar and a battery, we also help you put energy back into the grid when it’s needed most - and get rewarded for it.
As Australia’s only true wholesale electricity provider for Aussie households, our app gives customers access to the real-time wholesale price of energy for their home, as well as how much renewable energy is in the grid.
With visibility over exactly what you’re paying at any given time and how much energy you’re using, Amber customers can take back control of energy usage and costs - whether you’re doing your laundry or charging your EV.
Customer features include:
- A detailed live price page, with specific callouts and notifications for when prices are extremely low, or unusually high, allowing you to plan your usage to make the most of cheaper, greener energy
- Separate live prices and forecast for your solar feed-in and controlled load usage
- Half-hourly usage data for each previous day
- A detailed breakdown of your electricity usage history, including daily usage graphs, daily costs, benchmarking against averages and the government’s Default Market Offer.
- The ability to track your performance over time with Amber, with averages of your wholesale price over a weekly, monthly, quarterly or six month window via the Your Week With Amber feature.
With Amber for EVs, EV owners get access to the first smart EV charging solution that’s purposely designed to get EV owners all the free or super cheap charging opportunities out there. Included in your Amber subscription fee:
-Smart excess solar charging, with no extra hardware needed, for more extra kilometres from your home solar.
-Intelligent charging automation that finds the best times to charge your EV off your solar or wholesale energy rates, so you can take advantage of Australia’s solar boom whether you have panels on your roof or not. Including getting paid to charge when prices go below zero.
-Smart home battery/EV orchestration that makes sure your EV and home battery is in sync so you get maximum benefit from your home energy set-up.
-Set and forget or control when you need it. Plug in and switch off or get an instant top-up if you know something we don’t.
-Plus, track metrics that matter - like your cost of charging, solar power usage and more - all from one app.
With Amber for Batteries, home battery owners can accelerate payback on their home battery by combining Amber’s SmartShift™ battery automation and control features with our wholesale pricing.
Now, for the first time, battery owners can:
- Gain the control that they always wanted over their battery, with the power to export, charge and preserve their battery at the press of a button within the Amber app.
- Get paid the same feed-in tariffs that big fossil fuel generators earn, with wholesale FiTs that can reach $19/kWh and the ability to receive every cent that their energy is worth at the time it is exported.
- Boost their energy savings from their solar and battery with smart automation that continually hunts for the best prices to export and charge their battery.
- See the daily plan for their battery in the Amber app
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User Rating

3.67 out of 5

126 ratings in Australia

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AmberElectric Reviews

What has happened?

OSMum on

Australia

All of a sudden we are not getting solar feed in credit, and being charged for solar exporting.The App says there is an error with solar curtailment. Trying to get some feedback/help seems impossible.

Great app experience but missing widget

YaserAliCh on

Australia

Please add widget option

Great service, but app needs some uplift

imanuelcostigan on

Australia

Amber has been great for us with a fairly large solar installation and a Powerwall 2. However, what the app needs is 1/ widgets (!!!) 2/ proper iPadOS support.

Daily usage. When will it be fixed

app user 4999 on

Australia

Daily usage is now a week behind, constantly not showing or missing days. The cost of this electricity is not cheaper for anyone in comparison to standard electricity companies unless very closely watching. All the extra charges make it not cheap. The only way this would be a cheaper electricity company is if you have stored solar battery and sell electricity back at peak times.

Website lacking. Don’t want another app

madlep on

Australia

I just want to be able to update my payment details from my laptop without having to download another app.

Smart shift!

coolsummers on

Australia

Why does the smartshift save from the grid at 2 am when the price is $0.25! Doesn’t it see prices will be negative from 8am! Also it apparently doesn’t see that, I’ve got a massive solar system and I’ve been turning it off for few hours a day,so that I don’t export during the negative rate duration. From now smartshift ( dumbshift) stays off and will only turn it on during the peak hours!

Live General Prices

Plane Man forever brag boy on

Australia

Since latest Update Live General prices don’t work in App unless I swipe it over to solar usage then back to general

Buggy, Poorly Tested - OK when it’s working

Daamon on

Australia

The latest version (6.2.8) supposedly has “a refresh of the Live Prices screen”, but I can’t tell because the prices don’t display every time the app is opened - only after viewing the Feed-In Prices then going back to Usage Prices do the latter display. Separately, I keep getting spurious error messages; usage data not showing every now and then. Amber, focus on innovation and providing improved capabilities in the app rather than mucking around prettying things up (and breaking them). And improve your Customer Support - far too slow: weeks pass and resolutions to raised issues aren’t in sight.

Very expensive!

Tmill217 on

Australia

I moved across to Amber from AGL during winter and my bill was 3x from any bill I have ever received from AGL. Very expensive and it takes days to weeks for Amber support to get back to you.

Power bills went way way up

John Stevens 27 on

Australia

I’ve been with amber now for 2 months, and my electricity prices have gone through the roof since joining. I have had 3 days where my single day electricity use is over $130. Over $130!! I live with my wife and our dog and no electric car, so our electricity use is small. I would hate to think the cost of a full household. Since joining we have both been given “electricity anxiety”, checking the price of electricity before we do anything. We have seen as high as $30.15 kWh. That’s 1,000x more than the normal rate. Last night it got over $15kwh, so we are leaving. The amber experiment is over for us. The concept is great, but in reality it has cost us hundreds of extra dollars in just a few months of using it.

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