3 Things I Learned Participating In A VPP - Virtual Power Plant - YouTube
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Three things I wish I had thought about before I signed up for a VPP. Hi, I'm Finpecock, the founder of Solar Quotes. And four years ago, I signed up for a AglVPP.
三件我希望在报名“虚拟电厂计划（VPP）”之前能考虑清楚的事情。嗨，我是Finpecock，Solar Quotes的创始人。四年前，我报名参加了AglVPP。
Now, I'm not going to bash VPPs in this video because I actually got a great deal. I got $14,000 worth of Tesla Powerwall 2 for about $4,000 if I signed up for AglVPP. So, I signed 10 grand by giving AglV permission to use my battery almost in any way they want.
现在，在这个视频中我不会对VPPs进行抨击，因为我实际上得到了一个很好的交易。如果我注册了AglVPP，我就可以以约4000美元的价格获得价值14000美元的特斯拉Powerwall 2。所以，我花了1万美元的钱，让AglV有权利几乎以任何方式使用我的电池。
So, I've had it for four years. What have I learned? Well, I've learned three things that are really, really interesting.
所以，我已经拥有这个东西四年了。我学到了什么呢？嗯，我学到了三件非常非常有趣的事情。
Number one, how they're using the battery of mine. Now, the really interesting thing, if I look at my app, I can actually see how they're using my battery. So, that's really good. I've got full transparency of when they're charging and discharging my battery.
首先，他们如何使用我的电池是最重要的。而且，真正有趣的是，如果我查看我的应用程序，我实际上可以看到他们是如何使用我的电池的。所以，这非常好。我可以完全透明地了解他们何时给我的电池充电和放电。
Now, it's telling me, let's have a look, that over four years, they've only ever put 26.1 kilowatt hours into the battery from the grid. And they've only ever discharged 32.9 kilowatt hours out of the battery into the grid. So, basically, bugger all. But what is really interesting is, when they've chosen to do that, which has only been the last three weeks, how they've actually gone about doing that.
现在，它告诉我，我们来看看，在过去的四年中，他们从电网中只充入了26.1千瓦时的电量到电池中。而他们只有32.9千瓦时的电量从电池中放入电网。所以基本上说，几乎没有什么。但真正有趣的是，他们选择这样做的时间，这仅仅发生在最近三周，以及他们具体采取的做法。
And they've done it in a way that I would have never thought they would have. So, I'm going to show you three examples from the last three weeks. Let me just get it up.
他们以一种我从未想过的方式做到了。所以，我将向您展示最近三周的三个示例。让我打开它。
So, on the 17th of May, if you have a look, just before the sun goes down essentially, they actually charge my battery up with how many? 11.1 kilowatt hours of energy. So, almost fully charged the battery. But then, if you look below the x axis here, they discharge bugger all of it.
所以，在5月17日，如果你看一下，实际上是在太阳落山之前，他们实际上为我的电池充电了多少？是11.1千瓦时的能量。所以，几乎完全充满了电池。但是，如果你看一下这里的x轴下方，他们放电的很少很少。
And then again, here, just before sundown, they've charged it with 5.7 kilowatt hours, which is about half the battery. And then they haven't used any of it.
再说，在这里，就在日落前，他们已经给它充了5.7千瓦小时的电，大约是电池的一半。然后他们没有使用任何电量。
And then, a couple of weeks before that, they charged it with, let's have a look, 8.3 kilowatt hours, so about two thirds of the battery, they filled from the grid and used a tiny bit of it.
然后，在那之前的几个星期，他们充了8.3千瓦时的电量，大约是电池的三分之二，他们从电网充了大部分，只使用了一小部分。
So, I think, Agile won't tell me, we did ask, I think what they're doing is, they're charging the battery from the grid for certainty, just in case they need that energy. That's my best guess. And then, often, they're using very little or none of it. But that's a way I never considered that actually use my battery. They say, you know what? We're going to charge up from the battery. And I've got to pay for that, by the way. We're going to charge up the battery just in case we need it. And then, often, don't use it. And certainly, they've never used the whole, all the energy that they've put into the battery.
所以，我认为，敏捷不会告诉我，我们确实询问过，我认为他们正在从电网充电以确保电池有足够的电量，以防他们需要能源。这是我最好的猜测。然后，通常情况下，他们使用的能源很少或几乎没有。但这是一种我从未考虑过实际使用我的电池的方式。他们说，你知道吗？我们将从电池充电。顺便说一句，我需要为此付费。我们会充电以备不时之需，然后通常情况下不使用它。当然，他们从未使用过他们放入电池中的所有能源。
So, that's interesting. Although, they've used my battery very little, when they do use it, they're using it in really interesting ways that you may not anticipate. So, if you're signing up for a VPP now, when they're much less generous, you've got to do a bit of mental arithmetic. And, you know, if they do that every night or every night over winter, how much is it going to cost you?
所以，这很有趣。尽管他们很少使用我的电池，但当他们使用时，他们以一种你可能无法预料的非常有趣的方式使用。所以，如果你现在报名参加VPP，因为他们现在变得不那么慷慨了，你得做一些心算。而且，你知道的，如果他们每晚都这样做，或者在整个冬天每晚都这样做，那将会花费你多少钱？
Is it going to cost you $2 a day and you're saving $1,500 over the lifetime of the VPP? You know, you could very easily net be negative. So, these VPPs, they are unknown.
每天要花费2美元，而且你在VPP的使用寿命内可以节省1500美元？你知道，你很容易出现净亏损的情况。因此，这些VPPs是未知的。
And as my mate Ronald has always said, if there's an energy retailer running your VPP and controlling your battery, do you trust energy retailers? Well, I've got a great reputation in this country.
正如我的朋友罗纳德一直说的那样，如果一个能源零售商运营你的虚拟电力厂，并控制着你的电池，你会相信能源零售商吗？好吧，我在这个国家有很好的声誉。
Let's be honest. So, look after your interests ahead of theirs or do you suspect that they'll screw you over? That's your judgment. But just be careful when you're signing up for a VPP. You are letting these people control your battery.
让我们坦诚一点。所以，把自己的利益放在首位，或者你怀疑他们会对你耍花招？这是你的判断。但是，当你签订虚拟充电池协议时要小心一点。你正在允许这些人控制你的电池。
The second thing that I didn't really consider, and like normal people, I didn't read the gazillion pages of terms and conditions, is that recently they halved my feeding tariff.
第二个我没有真正考虑到的事情，就像普通人一样，我没有阅读那些长篇的条款和条件，就是最近他们将我的供电补贴减半了。
I'll say without telling me, they probably sent me an email that I didn't read because I don't read many of my emails, to be honest, especially the ones from big companies because often they're threatening to sue me. And I'd rather just ignore that.
我不看邮件，因此他们很可能给我发了一封邮件，并且我也没有看。说实话，我很少阅读我的电子邮件，尤其是大公司发来的邮件，因为它们经常威胁要起诉我。而我宁愿选择忽视它们。
But, oh, and by the way, don't use AGL's logo in this James because we don't want to get sued like a green piece. So, they halved my feeding tariff, which, and I export quite a lot of solar, and that had a fairly big effect on my bill.
但是，顺便说一句，詹姆斯，千万不要在这个地方使用AGL的标志，因为我们不想像绿色和平那样被起诉。所以，他们将我的养殖补贴削减了一半，而我出口了相当多的太阳能，这对我的账单产生了相当大的影响。
I looked at my bill. That doesn't look right. Oh, I've only got half a feeding tariff that I was getting. Now, I could go on to the AGL website, and I could push a button, and I could get back onto the original plumber I was on, which was a 16 cent feed in tariff up from 8.
我看了一下我的账单。看起来有些不对劲。哦，我得到的只有我原本拥有的一半的进料费率。现在，我可以进入AGL网站，点击一个按钮，然后重新回到我原先使用的供水系统上，该系统的进料费率是16分钱，比之前的8分钱高。
But, you know, four years ago, I just kind of naively assumed that the rates I was on are the rates that I'd have for the next five years, while I was essentially locked into the AGL VPP contract.
但是，你知道，四年前，我有点天真地认为我所处的利率将是我在未来五年内的利率，因为我实际上被锁定在了AGL VPP合同中。
A contract which I can get out of, but it will cost me thousands of dollars to get out of. Why would I pay thousands of dollars to save a few hundred dollars switching retailers? I wouldn't.
一份合同，我可以解除，但是需要花费数千美元来解约。为什么我要支付数千美元，只为了节省几百美元更换零售商？我不会这么做的。
So, the second thing, be aware, read the terms and conditions if you can get through them. But, be aware that there's going to be nasties in there like they can probably change the rates they're paying you for feeding tariffs. And, the usage tariff they put mine up, they put my daily charge up, they can probably change. So, if you're doing your maths on the rates that they're offering you initially, that may not work for the lifetime of the VPP plan.
所以，第二件事是要注意，如果你能够阅读条款与条件，请阅读它们。但要知道，在那里可能会有一些不好的条款，比如他们可能会改变支付给你的补贴费率。而且，他们可能会提高我的每日费用和用电费率。因此，如果你最初选择的费率不适用于虚拟电力厂计划的整个使用期间，你在计算上可能会出现问题。
Now, the third one that I didn't think about, which is really interesting, I didn't really care what they were charging me to pull energy from the grid, because I was using Bugger All. It was, I think it was 36 cents, which is, you know, it's a bit extortionate for grid electricity. I've got a six kilowatts solar system, I've got an efficient house, and I've got a test of the Powerwall 2. So, I was drawing Bugger All from the grid. Two years after I got my battery, I bought two electric cars and got rid of my petrol cars.
现在，第三个我没有考虑到的，真的很有意思，我并不在乎他们向我收取多少费用来从电网获取能量，因为我几乎没有使用。我记得是36美分，你知道的，这对于电网电力来说有点过高了。我有一个六千瓦的太阳能系统，我有一个高效的房子，我还试用了Powerwall 2。所以，我几乎没有从电网上抽取能量。在我买了电池两年后，我买了两辆电动汽车，把我的汽油车卖掉了。
Now, if you get an electric car, simplifying it, you're going to at least probably double your electricity usage. So, now I'm in a position where I'm actually drawing quite a lot of electricity from the grid. And, there's all these beautiful kind of EV plans being offered by other retailers where you can charge a EV at night very cheaply. They make a lot of sense for me, trying to charge two cars using a lot more electricity, but I'm essentially locked out of them because I'm stuck with AgL for another year. So, you know, if you're locking yourself into these multi-year VPPs, thinking, ah, I use Bugger All electricity, things change very quickly in energy, you know, in 2021.
现在，如果你购买一辆电动汽车，简单来说，你的用电量至少可能会增加一倍。所以，现在我实际上从电网中抽取了很多电力。还有其他零售商提供的这些美妙的电动汽车计划，在晚上可以以非常低廉的价格给电动汽车充电。对我来说，这些计划非常合理，因为我要用更多的电力给两辆车充电，但我无法享受这些计划，因为我还有一年时间无法更换供电商。所以，你知道，如果你把自己锁定在这些多年的虚拟电站计划中，以为自己的电力消耗很低，能源行业在2021年会发生很快的变化。
There's a very strong chance you're going to get an EV in the next, you know, two, three, four, five years. And if you do that, your electricity usage is going to go through the roof. So, you may want flexibility of your electricity plan. So, think about that.
有很大的机会，在接下来的两三四五年里你可能会购买一辆电动汽车。如果是这样的话，你的用电量会大幅增加。因此，你可能会希望你的电力计划具备灵活性。所以，请考虑一下这一点。
So, that's it. I think VPPs are very important, if done properly. Batteries, very, very important. VPPs are a great way to maximize the value of those batteries, but just be careful before you sign up for them. These multi-year VPPs, there's a lot of things you've got to consider that even so-called experts like me kind of glossed over because I was kind of wowed at saving 10 grand on a Tesla Powerwall 2, which I really wanted.
所以，就是这样。我认为VPPs非常重要，如果做得当的话。电池也非常非常重要。VPPs是最大化利用这些电池价值的好方法，但在注册之前一定要小心。这些多年的VPPs，有很多你必须考虑的事情，即使是像我这样所谓的专家也可能会忽略，因为我对能够在特斯拉Powerwall 2上节省1万美元感到非常惊讶，而我真的很想要它。
Now, don't get me wrong. I think I'm still $9,995 up. So, I got a great deal. But the VPPs that are around in 2021 and nothing like as generous. So, be careful signing up for VPPs. Do your homework, think long and hard about if your electricity usage habits are going to change and watch the retailers like a hawk because they may well change your feeding tariff, change your usage tariff, and be aware that you're giving them free range to do what the hell they want with that battery. They can charge it from the grid, which is going to cost you money at times when you might not want to charge it from the grid. And the whole point of getting a battery might have been for you personally. Everyone's different that you didn't want to import energy from the grid. So, be careful.
现在，别误会我的意思。我觉得我还是赚了9959美元。所以，我得到了一个很划算的交易。但是，2021年的VPPs并不像以前那样慷慨。因此，在注册VPPs时要小心。做好功课，仔细考虑一下你的用电习惯是否会改变，并密切关注零售商，因为他们可能会改变你的进电费率、用电费率，并且要注意，你给予他们为所欲为的权力对待那块电池。他们可以从电网中给电池充电，这在你不想从电网充电时会花费你的钱。而购买电池的初衷可能是为了不依赖电网进电。所以，要小心。
Going to VPPs with your eyes open. I just thought I'd give you my experience having had one for four years.
以睁开双眼去了解VPPs。我只是想给你分享我拥有VPP四年的经验。