Victron heat pump water heater control

[erwinvos72 (Erwin)]

I have a Victron system with 15 kWh of battery storage. I now want to reduce my gas consumption and am looking at an SG-ready heat-pump water heater. Has anyone here had experience with this, and how they set it up using Node-RED?

[DirkW]

Wait until Venus OS version 3.80; the Opportunity Loads feature is then supposed to be officially released. Version 3.79 came out yesterday, so it can’t be much longer

BETA: Turn surplus solar into useful work with GX Opportunity Loads

We are excited to start BETA-testing a new GX feature: Opportunity Loads. Opportunity Loads increases self-consumption by automatically using surplus solar energy for flexible AC loads such as: EV charging Water heating and thermal storage Pool pumps Charging e-bikes Other controllable AC loads The GX device acts as a system-level energy coordinator and dynamically distributes available surplus across supported devices. [Screenshot of the Opportunity Loads configuration scre…