Setting Time-of-Use Schedules in HYXiPULSE for NSW Tariffs

Most NSW households on a time-of-use plan pay very different rates depending on the hour. A home battery can shift your usage away from the expensive hours, but only if it is told when those hours are. This guide covers the HYXiPULSE time of use settings for a HYXiPOWER hybrid inverter and battery system: where they live in the app, what each option does, and how to line them up with your NSW network's windows.

Before You Open the App: Find Your Real Tariff Windows

Two different companies decide your "peak" hours. Your network (Ausgrid, Endeavour Energy or Essential Energy) publishes its own windows. Your retailer decides which windows appear on your bill, and some don't copy the network. Ausgrid says so directly: retailers can offer different peak and off-peak times.

Check your plan's fact sheet or Energy Made Easy listing for the exact hours. Then use the table below as a reference for the network windows.

NSW network	Network peak window (2026–27)	Cheapest window	Notes
Ausgrid	3pm–9pm every day	All other hours	Peak applies only Nov–Mar and Jun–Aug. In Apr, May, Sep and Oct, every hour is off-peak
Endeavour Energy	4pm–8pm business days	"Solar Soak" 10am–2pm daily	Public holidays have no peak
Essential Energy (Sun Soaker, default for smart meters since July 2024)	7am–10am and 3pm–10pm daily	10am–3pm	Older smart-meter customers may be on a 5pm–8pm weekday peak

There is also the Solar Sharer Offer. It is an opt-in plan available from 1 July 2026 in NSW default market offer regions to households with smart meters. It has a fixed three-hour daily window, 11am–2pm, in which grid usage is charged at no cost, with slightly higher rates outside it. Ask your retailer whether they offer it and whether it suits your usage.

Two Places Your Tariff Lives in the App

This trips up many owners. HYXiPULSE has two separate tariff-related areas, and only one of them controls your battery.

1. Price Config (reporting only). In the plant's information, you can choose a fixed price or a time-of-use price, with different periods and the matching import and export rates. This feeds the revenue and savings figures the app displays. It does not tell the battery what to do.

1. On-Grid Working Status Setting (battery behaviour). This is where you assign a working mode to each time period. This is what actually shifts your battery's behaviour.

Set both. If Price Config is wrong, your savings figures will be misleading. If the working status schedule is wrong, your battery ignores your tariff.

How HYXiPULSE Time of Use Settings Work: The Working Modes

The app manual lists four on-grid working modes: Self-consumption, Backup (Green), Backup (Grid) and Feed-in. If you don't set a schedule, the default is Self-consumption [1]. The inverter manual describes four modes under slightly different names, which appear to correspond:

Inverter manual name	What it does [2]
Selfuse	Circulates energy at home to buy as little from the grid as possible
Backup	Holds the battery so backup is always available. It is not allowed to buy grid electricity to charge the battery
Forced charge	Holds the battery and is forced to buy grid electricity to charge it at the set power
Feedin	Exports to the grid at maximum power until the battery reaches its minimum SOC

Check the on-screen label and description on your own app version before relying on this mapping. Names can change between releases.

HYXiPOWER states that in self-consumption mode you can set up to six time periods for charging and discharging to take advantage of time-of-use pricing.

Step-by-Step: Configuring HYXiPULSE Time of Use Settings

1. Open your plant and go to Devices. Tap the hybrid inverter to open its details.

2. Tap Settings. Energy storage working mode settings are available for hybrid inverters.

3. Choose On-Grid Working Status Setting and tap the + button in the top right to add a period, such as Monday.

4. Set the working mode for each time slot within that period. Anything you leave unset defaults to Self-consumption.

5. Open Mode Setting and set the minimum battery level (SOC) for each working mode.

6. Check Off-grid Working Status Setting and Battery Low SOC Protection. Protection is enabled by default, and we recommend leaving it on. Your off-grid minimum SOC is your blackout reserve, so don't set it lower than you're comfortable with.

7. Update Price Config. Go to Plant Information, then Price Config, and choose the time-of-use price type. Enter the same periods as your plan.

8. Save, then re-open the screens to confirm the values stuck.

If Settings isn't visible on your login, ask your installer. The manual's owner section refers back to the same device operations, but access can depend on how the plant was set up.

Example Schedules for NSW Tariffs

These are starting points to discuss with your installer, not recommendations. Whether any pattern beats plain Self-consumption depends on your solar output, your usage and your plan, and every extra cycle also uses up warranty throughput. Use the Battery ROI Calculator to sanity-check.

Pattern	Suits	Idea
Peak-protect	Ausgrid, in peak months	Hold the battery with Backup before 3pm, then use Self-consumption from 3pm to 9pm. In Apr, May, Sep and Oct there is no peak, so go back to Self-consumption all day
Midday top-up	Endeavour and Essential, or a Solar Sharer plan	On weak-sun days, use Forced charge inside the cheap midday window, then Self-consumption through the evening peak
Two-peak day	Essential Sun Soaker	Keep Self-consumption through 7am–10am and 3pm–10pm. Avoid Backup in those windows

Two cautions:

• Forced charge buys grid power. The owner manuals don't spell out what stops a forced charge, so confirm the behaviour with your installer before using it.

• Feed-in mode exports at maximum power until minimum SOC. Your export limit is set separately under Export Control [2], and your retailer's feed-in terms matter. Don't use it without confirming both.

Common Mistakes

• Retailer windows differ from the network's. Always schedule against the hours on your plan.

• Seasonal tariffs. Ausgrid's peak switches off for four months of the year, so a schedule that suits December will waste battery in October.

• Clock changes. NSW moves its clocks on the first Sunday in October and April. Check the plant time zone in Plant Information and confirm the schedule still lines up afterwards.

• Offline data unit. If the app can't reach the system, changes may not apply.

• Changing plans. The manuals don't describe automatic tariff syncing, so assume you'll update the schedule yourself when your retailer or plan changes.

Limits of This Guide

• Steps come from the HYXiPOWER app manual (UM-02, July 2024) and the HYX-H(3~8)K-HS inverter manual (V1.4-202407). Screens change between app versions, and three-phase (HT) owners should confirm details with their installer.

• Time-of-use scheduling does not guarantee savings. It helps most when there is a large gap between peak and off-peak rates and you have spare solar.

• We can't evidence how any schedule performs on your bill without your meter data.

Why Solar Panels and Solar Energy Are Good, Especially in Australia

A mature, fast-growing market

The Clean Energy Regulator recorded more than 1 GW of rooftop solar installed in Q2 2026, the first time a single quarter has passed that mark.

Batteries make solar useful after sunset

The same quarter set a record for household batteries, with more than 111,000 approved and 3.6 GWh of storage installed. Stored daytime solar is what a time-of-use schedule shifts into your expensive evening hours.

Midday power is abundant for a reason

Renewables supplied around 42% of National Electricity Market generation in Q2 2026, and growth in distributed solar contributed to the lowest average Q2 grid demand since 2020. That is why networks now put their cheapest windows in the middle of the day.

Policy support for batteries

The Cheaper Home Batteries Program provides a discount through Small-scale Technology Certificates (STCs). Since 1 May 2026 it uses tiered rates based on usable capacity. A system must be 5–100 kWh nominal, installed with solar PV, on the Clean Energy Council approved list, and installed by a Solar Accreditation Australia-accredited installer. STCs cover only the first 50 kWh of usable capacity. Rates step down over time until the scheme ends in 2030, so see our Rebate Guide for current details.

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