SolanIQ on GloBird ZeroHero
ZeroHero gives you three hours of free grid power in the middle of the day and a boosted feed-in rate from 6–9pm. SolanIQ runs that daily cycle for you — charging for free, carrying your home through the peak, and exporting into the bonus window.
A day on ZeroHero with SolanIQ
GloBird's ZeroHero plan doesn't move with the wholesale market. Instead it builds two windows into every day: a midday ZeroCharge window (11am–2pm or 12–3pm, depending on your plan) where grid electricity costs nothing, and a Super Export window (6–9pm) where exports earn a boosted feed-in rate. Getting full value means charging and discharging on that schedule every single day — exactly the kind of routine an optimiser never gets bored of.
Overnight
Hold what you need
The battery keeps enough charge to carry your home to the free window, so you buy as little overnight power as possible.
Morning
Solar takes over
As the sun comes up your home runs on solar, with the battery topping up from any surplus.
Midday
Free charging (ZeroCharge)
Grid electricity is free in ZeroHero’s three-hour midday window — 11am–2pm or 12–3pm, depending on your plan. SolanIQ fills whatever the sun hasn’t, charging the battery from the grid at $0/kWh.
Afternoon
Arrive at the peak full
The battery is managed so it hits the evening with a full charge — ready for the most valuable three hours of the day.
6–9pm
Peak: battery power + Super Export
Your home runs from the battery instead of the grid, and surplus energy is exported into ZeroHero’s boosted 6–9pm feed-in window — earning at the plan’s highest rate while your neighbours pay peak prices.
Late evening
Reset for tomorrow
After the export window closes, the battery settles in to cover the night — and the whole cycle repeats tomorrow, automatically.
What you can expect
The same play, every day
ZeroHero is a fixed-tariff plan, so there are no wholesale price swings to ride. The value comes from running the daily cycle perfectly — free charge at midday, battery through the peak, boosted export at night — without ever forgetting or mistiming it.
Near-zero peak imports
With the battery charged for free by mid-afternoon, most homes import next to nothing from the grid during the expensive 6–9pm peak.
Paid twice for the same window
Between 6 and 9pm you avoid buying peak-price power and sell surplus at the boosted feed-in rate at the same time. How much you can export depends on your battery size and how much your home uses in the evening.
No API keys, no market watching
There’s nothing to generate or paste — pick your distributor tariff during sign-up and SolanIQ applies the ZeroHero windows automatically.
You'll need to be on GloBird's ZeroHero plan for the free and boosted windows to apply — check the plan's terms and availability with GloBird for your area.
Getting connected
- Be (or become) a GloBird customer on the ZeroHero plan.
- During SolanIQ sign-up, choose GloBird ZeroHero as your price provider and pick your distributor tariff from the list — SolanIQ applies the free and boosted windows automatically.
- Connect your ESY Sunhome battery with your ESY app login.
- Done — the daily cycle runs itself. The full walkthrough is in the user guide.
Prefer wholesale prices?
If you'd rather trade the 5-minute wholesale market — with negative prices, evening spikes and the chance of negative bills — SolanIQ also automates Amber Electric.
SolanIQ on AmberFirst 30 days free with promo code FREETRIAL.