Electricity Price
With our power spot nodes, you can easily check electricity consumption and costs through graphs and optional .CSV extracts. You also have the option to use the nodes to switch other equipment on or off via the relay on our devices.
Current Electricity Price
This node outputs the current electricity price with the following outputs:
Do you want the price including VAT, add a Equation Node with the formula
In the configuration, you select the energy zone (e.g. DK1/DK2), grid company and whether state taxes should be included via "include state tax". Most can leave the tariff configuration as is. Default configuration. Tick include state tax if any statutory charges are to be included in the total.
- Spot – the raw spot price
- Tariff – your net tariff
- Electricity Tax – electricity tax
- System Tariff
- Transmission tariff
- Total tax – total duties
- Total – the full price including all taxes (excluding VAT)
Do you want the price including VAT, add a Equation Node with the formula
x * 1.25.
In the configuration, you select the energy zone (e.g. DK1/DK2), grid company and whether state taxes should be included via "include state tax". Most can leave the tariff configuration as is. Default configuration. Tick include state tax if any statutory charges are to be included in the total.
Is the lowest electricity price
This node finds the cheapest hours of the day and outputs Cheapest – a boolean signal that is
Entrances:
You choose the configurations Energizone and Energy company. Tick include state tax if statistics charges are to be included. Click Prices to see an overview of today's hourly prices. The node updates once per hour.
True when the current hour is among the cheapest.
Entrances:
- Start – items start (00-23)
- Stop – time's end (00-23)
- Hours – number of cheap hours desired
- Time – connected to a Current time Node
You choose the configurations Energizone and Energy company. Tick include state tax if statistics charges are to be included. Click Prices to see an overview of today's hourly prices. The node updates once per hour.
Lowest Electricity Price Advanced
Lowest Electricity Price Advanced Finds the cheapest hours of the day and outputs them Cheapest – a boolean signal that is True when the current hour is among the cheapest.
Inputs
- Start / Stop – the time window the node must operate within (e.g. 00:00–24:00)
- Time of day – the total time (in minutes) the unit may run per day
- My ON – minimum number of minutes the unit must run at a time
- Min off minimum number of minutes the unit must pause between runs
In the configuration, you choose Energizone, Energy company and tariff. Tick the box include state tax if duties are to be included.
It is also possible to use variables and a dashboard to configure this node.