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4 Hours of off-Peak Power Free + Free Tesla EV Off-Peak Charging @ Meridian Energy

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Finally my contact good night plan's price is increasing, so was time to shop around. Meridian's 4 hour free is same pricing with Contact's 3 hour good night plan. I have maximum usage during 9-12 so this works for me good. Additional 1 hour in afternoon helps with heat pump to bring the temp of the house at comfortable level.

Additionally, you get free anytime off-peak charging if you have Tesla. Option during sign up process. I have emailed to get exactly what hours are included

Free power on your terms*
Say hello to an energy plan that gives you four hours of free off-peak power daily. The best bit? You get to choose which hours are free and you can change them whenever you like!*

Whether it's heating up your house in the morning, washing during the day or charging your EV at night - the power is yours - on us!
Choose your free hours. Change them anytime.

Terms and conditions(meridianenergy.co.nz)

My Rates (including GST):

  • Daily charge: $1.3800 /day ^
  • Usage rate: 0.3066 c/kWh ^

Update
I got below response from Meridian about free Hours for Tesla. Looks like 9pm to 6am, off-peak hours are free for Tesla charging.

Thank you for reaching out, if you allow your Tesla to charge over night to the smart charging schedule on your app that charging session will always be fully free.

Otherwise, there is an option in the app to override the smart charging if you wanted to top up your Tesla during the day outside of the smart charging schedule, doing this will make the sessions not free unless you were to override it during your free hours which should also be specified on the app I believe 🙂 then any power you use during free hours is free including charging.

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      • Did you follow the steps to link Tesla account using their EV app? It is possible you have scheduled charging setup on your Tesla or charger? Or else you have some other app which has the same?

        I had similar issue where I am using ChargeHQ to restrict my charging between 9-12 upto certain limit. Meridian would charge my car between that period and list it as standard charging as I have kept 9-12 as free. While it would stop after 12. I adjusted ChargeHQ app allow charging between 12-6(smart charging period) which allowed meridian to do smart charging.

        • It looks like a schedule was added by Meridian from 11pm-6am - does this need to be turned on in the Tesla app?

          I have another sechedule for 9pm-12am - this will obviously be the 4 free hours/not smart charging.

          However the Meridian portal did not detect smart charging even with the 11pm-6am schedule.

          • @Dro1d: I don't have any charging schedules listed on my Tesla app. Are you using wall connector or mobile charger?

            Make sure you don't have any other apps like Tessie or similar handling your charging schedule.

            • @ace310: Mobile charger, no other schedules/third party apps.

              Deleted the Enode Key and did the setup through the EV link app again.

              Meridian portal detects: "Your EV is plugged in and will automatically Smart Charge during off-peak hours" but never actually smart charges. The "Cancel and charge now" button doesn't work either.

              Meridian support hasn't replied and idk if they know how to troubleshoot this.

              • @Dro1d: Update: Meridian got back in contact and have fixed an error on their end. Should work tonight.

    • I had set this up and can see in the dashboard it says 'Smart charging' when I plugged in last night. So I am thinking that is free charging. I was expecting the charging to stop at 6am but it's still charging (as of 6.45am). I checked the meridian dashboard it still shows Smart charging. I have no other apps or schedule setup.
      Did I miss any step?

  • Wish the free smart charging was showed in the cost savings in the app.

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