Exploring energy use in your flinders home

Thinking of joining the Flinders Virtual Energy Network?

A little investigation of your energy use will help you decide whether joining a VEN is a wise move for you.

At the bottom of this page is a link to a tool that lets you upload your home's energy use data for 1 year and see your annual energy consumption and total solar exports. It uses your ‘Victorian Energy Compare report’ file which you can download from United Energy. That file will give you access to all your imported and exported energy for the past year at 30 minute intervals (these data are in what's called the NEM12 format).

You can explore your data in just 2 easy steps:

First

Everyone on the Mornington Peninsula has their power provided by United Energy, no matter which retailer (PowerShop, AGL, Red Energy, Diamond Energy, etc.) you might have selected.

So first, download a full year's worth of energy data from from United Energy:

Login to United Energy and from your dashboard click View Details then Download reports , and download your '4. Victorian Energy Compare report' (ending in UNITEDENERGY_VEC.csv).

(If you don’t have a United Energy account, click on the Register an account)

Upload your data to our FZCC Energy Cost Analyser app (read on, then click the red link below):

You'll be able to:
- Look at how much energy you Consume and Export each year.
- Quickly see what your likely power bill will be if you join the VEN
- Look at our small selection of power companies and compare costs (these rates are only indicative - not updated, but you can edit them!)
- See how these costs vary by season (or date, or even time of day) - you can often save money by switching companies every 6 months (it's easy!).

(You can find out more about Virtual Energy Networks on the EnergyLocals 'PowerTracer' scheme web page

and you can download our VEN info sheet here.)

Here is the link to our FZCC Energy Cost Analyser App

Play & enjoy :)