ESBN Maximum Import Capacity

i think for domestic 50mm is specified?

3ph smart meters are out. We have one.

Once you provide the duct, you will likely be charged less than the 29kVa price on the ESB networks price list. We were charged €5769 inc vat last year for 29kVa 3ph. We had to run a new duct to the mini pillar across the street. Our instal was not straight forward either. Our street (late 80's cul de sac of 11 houses) was wired 3ph to the mini pillars but the ESB had a 1ph trafo feeding it. Luckily there was 3ph MV feeding the trafo. So our price included the cost of a new transformer, and changing the configuration of the street from 1ph to 3ph.

The duct is simple enough. Digging and reinstatement is the big cost. Whether you lay 50mm or 125mm duct is irrelevent. The ESB will free issue you a 125mm to 50mm reducer to connect the 125mm duct to your existing hockey stick. Chat to the local ESB office abou the mini pillar end. They wont want you digging right up to it. In our case, we laid the duct to ~1m from the mini pillar and reinstated. The ESB came back in their own time and dug up to the mini pillar and did the connection. It was the old style mini pillar with no vault underneath.

3ph is a no brainer if it is reasonable money. Standing charge is the same as 1ph too.

Ya, not viable. Looking at the MV overhead rates, your quote would have been well into five figures!

That paving will be handy enough to lift. Have you a pic further out showing the mini pillar?

Ya bring it to the edge of your driveway. You would need a road opening licence to dig the footpath (expensive). Discuss it with the local esb office who will be doing the works. I found our local office very approachable and friendly.

Could be tricky if that's a gas meter?

May require certain separation distance?

you need 600 mm so pier foundations will probably push you out

You cant, in theory, touch the path

Don t know if ESB will do that piece, maybe

Forms a joke I filled it out and it said I needed 3 phase.. I just put in values from the heat pumps spec sheet.. 9kw heatpump had max 3.5kwh consumption.. its basically just a get on the list from.. they never contacted me I had to phone several times to even get them to respond

Just put in approx numbers... Max power consumption of around 3.5kwh that would be during a hot water cycle

Anyone ever see this?

Will obviously be calling them tomorrow. But this is bananas and physically impossible.

I "used" just over 1,200 kWh according to ESB networks on Saturday morning. So not quite as bad as you! I checked the physical meter box and it's showing normal usage so I'm expecting it's a glitch in ESBs calcs that will hopefully be corrected ASAP without having to argue with them.

You'll end up with very little going into the car depending on the charge rate of your house batteries. I'm not running the dishwasher or washing machine at night any more.. if you have lower draw for house batteries might be fine. I've seen a few people comment online that you shouldn't trust load balancing in the likes of the zappi.. what do others think?

I've found i have to keep bugging the guy to get any contact with networks. I'm still no further on.

Downloading the daily HDF, there is a missing decimal point! I will be calling them as soon as they open.

Look at the first 3 rows compared to all the other rows in column C.

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I did 41,000kWh on Saturday…😎beat that!

Good news its all on its all on Pinenergy night rate so it'll be grand

I found the Zappi to be quite good at modulating its charging rate not to break the limit you set. What I did do was I offset the Zappi by 5mins so my battery Zappi and HP don't all come on at the same time. Zero to 18kW was throwing the Zappi off and not good for grid voltage etc.

The Zappi has never pushed my over the 80Amp limit I have set on it. See below from last week…starts at 7kW then drops to around 5kW to keep me under 18kW. Should have probably gone back up to 7 for the last 30 mins where I had capacity but that could have been the cars BMS.