Hello from Sweden! There is a good discussion ongoing on the topic of time-variable grid fees here . Status is (as I understand it) that Victron is working on implementing time-variable costs in the DESS. But I think that my question is slightly different: We will get something similar to time-vari…

[image] jro: Status is (as I understand it) that Victron is working on implementing time-variable costs in the DESS Status on that is actually: It is already done: [image] You can set up different price-equations based on different times. For example, here, that would be 9.24 (instead of …

Hi Dognose, Thanks a lot for your response! You’re of course right about the time-variable costs and the DESS is handling that part well for me. [image] dognose: As to my understanding, the “key” would be to keep the accumulated grid-pull per hour to a “minimum” to keep that fees low, right? …

[image] Jannik: Anyway, I think that this might be the exact solution I am looking for, as long at it nicely integrates with the DESS. I’ll test and report back! Yes, that Is a good thread. Dirk-Jan has already put quite some effort into testing different approaches there.

Time-variable grid fees ("hourly peak shaving"?)

Q&A and troubleshooting DESS

jro (Jannik) 25 February 2026 12:22 2

See ongoing work from Victron on this topic: Capacity tariff peak shaving — effekttariff (SE) / capaciteitstarief (BE)

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