If you have existing solar panels at home (and don’t have a battery or an EV), your experience with Flow Home will likely be different from your experience with other energy retailers, especially if you’re switching from a flat rate.
Flow Home is designed to incentivise customers’ use of electricity at cheaper times of day, when renewable generation reduces wholesale prices. This is typically during the middle of the day, when solar generation is at its peak.
If you have rooftop solar installed, you likely won’t need to use energy from the grid during these periods. With Flow Home, we look at your average usage for the month and adjust your electricity rate based on how closely you’ve matched your usage to cheaper, more renewable times in the grid.
This means it will be harder to reduce your rate each month, as the majority of your grid usage will be during peak periods, at higher prices (which is often generated by fossil fuels).
There are some steps you can take to reduce the impact of your solar panels on your monthly rate. Your rates are variable, dependent on the size of your solar system, your usage and market prices and conditions.
However, Flow Home typically best suits homes with solar that can:
To ensure you benefit from Flow Home as a solar customer, we recommend adding a battery to your system – we explain more about how that works below.
Flow Home customers who joined before December 1 2025 receive a base feed-in tariff of 3.3c/kWh. An adjustment will be made to that rate each month, based on your export habits and how closely they aligned with wholesale market pricing signals that month.
This FiT is based on wholesale prices, designed to give you access to a wider range of pricing. This allows for greater earning potential when you export your stored energy during peak times or grid events. Equally, your rate can be negatively impacted by exporting during times of the day when energy is abundant in the grid – like solar hours during the day.
Using the Flow Power app, you can monitor the market to find the most lucrative times to export and avoid the times when you could be charged.
From December 1 2025, Flow Home will be introducing a new FiT structure to reward energy-savvy exporters.
This will apply automatically for new customers. Existing customers will have the option to switch to the new tariff right away by contacting contact@flowpower.com.au and requesting an upgrade or wait until January to roll onto the new tariff structure.
Under this new structure, the rate for exports will be $0 during off-peak hours.
Optimally timed exports will be rewarded with a competitive bonus rate between 35-45c/kWh, depending on your state, from 5:30-7:30pm every day.
If your household can control when it exports solar, you could earn more for the power you produce.
Flow Power customers with a battery are at a unique advantage, with additional potential to improve their electricity rate each month.
Whether you use your stored energy to power your household to avoid high prices, or export to the grid during peak periods, Flow Home is designed to reward these smart energy habits.
No solar? No problem.
Australia’s boom in rooftop solar capacity means our sunny nation now generates an excess of energy during the day. You can use this abundant cheap, clean energy to charge up your home battery, even if you don’t have solar panels yourself.
Log into the Flow Power app and we’ll give you guidance on the best times to charge up.
Absolutely! We’ll equip you with free energy monitoring technology which links to our Flow Power app. Simply head over to the app to see how you’re tracking.
In the app, you’ll find guidance on the best times to charge and discharge your battery. Plus, we’ll provide guides to optimising your battery manually or using our set-and-forget method.
Optimising when you charge and discharge your battery can significantly reduce your energy costs.
With Flow Home, your battery can reduce your usage costs, and, by ensuring you only export to the grid during peak times, you can earn a much higher feed-in tariff.
Our feed-in tariff (FiT) has been designed to best suit battery owners who can export at times when the grid needs power the most.
Flow Home customers who joined before December 1 2025 receive a base feed-in tariff of 3.3c/kWh, and an adjustment will be made to that rate each month, based on your export habits and how closely they aligned with wholesale market pricing signals that month.
This FiT is based on wholesale prices, designed to give you access to a wider range of pricing. This allows for greater earning potential when you export your stored energy during peak times or grid events. Equally, your rate can be negatively impacted by exporting during times of the day when energy is abundant in the grid – like solar hours during the day.
Using the Flow Power app, you can monitor the market to find the most lucrative times to export and avoid the times when you could be charged.
From December 1 2025, Flow Home will be introducing a new FiT structure to reward energy-savvy exporters.
This will apply automatically for new customers. Existing customers will have the option to switch to the new tariff right away by contacting contact@flowpower.com.au and requesting an upgrade or wait until January to roll onto the new tariff structure.
Under this new structure, the rate for exports will be $0 during off-peak hours.
Optimally timed exports will be rewarded with a competitive bonus rate between 35-45c/kWh, depending on your state, from 5:30-7:30pm every day.
We’ve put together this handy resource for customers interested in getting a battery. Or if you have any other questions, be sure to get in touch.
We’re here to help.
EV owners can significantly reduce their electricity rate, simply by adjusting when they charge their cars.
By shifting your charging to off-peak times of day, when energy is cheaper and greener, you can lower your electricity rate for the month.
That means you’re saving on your EV charging and reducing your overall electricity costs – it’s a win win.
Typically, during daytime hours, especially if the sun is shining.
The Flow Home app takes the guesswork out of finding the best time to charge, with energy forecasts for the week ahead that help you identify the best times to power up.
Charge your EV within the green zones indicated by the app, and avoid any red zones when possible.
Your average rate for the month may increase if you frequently charge during peak hours.
Occasional peak‐time charging, however, won’t have much impact if you do most of your charging during lower-cost periods, balancing out any temporary increases.
The Flow Power app monitors your live energy use, so when you plug in your EV, you’ll see your usage increase in real time for easy monitoring.
No special equipment is required. You can use your existing EV charger. However, a smart charger can help you automate charging during off-peak times for added convenience, and additional potential to save.
If you have any questions, please contact our friendly team.