Why evening
The tariff is the terrain
Foxlowe’s meter prices the day in three bands, and the expensive one is the one you actually live in: cooking, laundry, lights, the television — five to nine, every day, at three times the noon rate. An array without storage sells its best hours back at wholesale and buys its worst ones at retail. We fix exactly that arithmetic, and the monitoring page proves it nightly.
What we do
The evening plan
Arrays sized to the bill, not the roof
Shade-modelled to the tree and quoted off twelve months of your meter — then timed against the bands so the noon surplus lands in the battery instead of the utility’s wholesale account. String or micro as the roof argues; the honest array is often smaller than the catalogue one, and always better aimed.
Batteries & the evening dispatch
LFP storage that charges on the cheap band, holds it through the afternoon, and carries the house across five-to-nine automatically. The dispatch curve is drawn at design from your own load history — the fridge, the range, the homework lights — and the app shows the meter standing still while the street’s doesn’t.
EV charging on the night rate
The charger talks to the same controller: the car drinks after nine at 9¢, topped from the battery when the evening ran light, and never from the 34¢ band it used to drink from. Most households find the car was a third of the expensive hours all along, and nobody had ever priced it.
THE EVENING ARGUMENT, SHORT VERSION: the array is the harvest, the battery is the cellar, and the tariff is the weather. Selling the harvest at noon prices is not a plan — banking it and drinking it at 34¢ is. We size both halves off your own load history and guarantee the production.
The dispatch day
How the evening runs
One day, four beats, drawn at design from your load history and re-drawn by the controller every night it learns something.
Noon harvest
The array peaks while the house is quiet; surplus flows to the battery at the 11¢ band instead of the utility’s wholesale.
Five o’clock
The expensive band opens and the house transfers to stored sun — the meter stands still while the street’s spikes.
After nine
Whatever the evening left empty charges at 9¢, the EV first, hot water second, the model’s orders third.
The March reading
Year against model, band against band, with the guarantee floor underneath — and the dispatch curve retuned for the season ahead.
2025 — 2026, dusk shots
Evenings, photographed at the hour they pay
Six installs shot at five-to-nine on purpose — the window the whole design exists for. The captions carry the number that matters: what the meter did.
I can see the hour my house stopped buying electricity — 5:04 on a Tuesday, the app shows it still. The array covers the day, the battery covers the evening, the car drinks at nine, and the bill is a third of what it was with a bigger array quoted by someone else would have made it. The meter page is my evening entertainment now.
The load history was the revelation: they read a year of my meter and found the expensive hours were the oven, the car and one very committed aquarium. The dispatch curve they drew charges the battery off-noon, carries the oven at five, waters the fish at nine. It is the only trades quote I have ever framed.
Two outages since the install — one storm, one substation — and the house simply did not attend either. The furnace board, the fridge and the internet rode four hours flat without a flicker, and the app logged the switchover at twenty milliseconds. My neighbours know my hallway as the one with the lights on.
Fair questions
Evening questions
The five every Foxlowe kitchen reaches between five and nine, which is fitting. The evening line below answers the rest while the meter stands still.
Doesn’t a battery just move the bill around?
It moves it downhill. Noon production is worth 11¢ sold and 34¢ avoided — banking it and spending it yourself captures the difference instead of the utility’s margin. The app prints the arithmetic nightly; the median member household finds 82% of its evening load carried by stored sun, which is a number, not a vibe.
What happens through a winter week?
The model plans for it: shorter harvests, longer evenings, the discharge curve flattened to what the week can actually bank. Hard weeks lean on the night band — 9¢ after nine — and the guarantee floor covers the production side, storm weeks included. Winter is why we size to the solstice load and never the July one.
Is this the same as a backup generator?
Quieter, faster and without fuel. The transfer lands in about twenty milliseconds — the clocks do not blink — and the named circuits carry on for hours, not the seconds a portable genset gives you between refills. And between outages it earns its keep every single evening, which is a hobby a generator does not have.
Can you add storage to my existing array?
Usually, yes — the retrofit on this page is exactly that. We read a year of your meter, size the cabinet to the evening rather than the array, and draw the dispatch curve to fit both. The production guarantee attaches to what we model; the evening arithmetic attaches to the load history, and we show you both before you sign.
What does the monitoring actually show?
Three lines — generation, household load, battery state — and a fourth for the meter, which is the one that pays the mortgage on the idea. Every evening you can watch the meter line go flat at five and stay flat to nine. Customers describe this as unnecessary and then check it nightly; both are correct.
Free load-history readings across Foxlowe & Lampeter Row · (555) 024-5519 · six@sixoclocksolar.example
The free reading
Get the evening read for your house
Send the address and, if you can, a year of meter data — otherwise we will pull the load history with your permission at the free reading. Three days later you hold the evening plan: array size, battery size, the dispatch curve drawn against your own hours, and the guarantee floor underneath both. six@sixoclocksolar.example