Your Power, Your Rules: How to Set Reserve Levels, Export Limits and Schedules

There’s a temptation to fiddle. New tech invites it. But batteries reward restraint. Pick a simple profile and let it breathe for a month.

Reserve is the headline setting. Start at 30 to 40 percent. If you find you’re never close to draining it, ease back by five percent and watch. If you have weekend guests or a run of storms, lift it and carry on.

Export limits should match what your inverter and cabling can comfortably deliver. Schedules need only reflect common sense: make exports available in the early evening when demand is high, and avoid the dead of night unless prices spike unexpectedly.

The point of a VPP is not to turn you into a day trader. It’s to take what you already own and coordinate it intelligently. A monthly check‑in is enough: scan the credits, look for oddities in the export graph, and tweak in small steps. The less you fuss, the more the system can prove its worth.

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