Amber & Battery Trading Session, with Benjamin Jones

In the second half of the Finn Peacock Workshop at the Lightning Energy showroom, Benjamin Jones, Battery Channel Manager at Amber Electric, joined Luke Cove to explain how Amber’s wholesale energy model empowers battery owners to earn more from their systems. Benjamin outlined how Amber’s $25/month subscription gives homeowners direct access to the wholesale energy market, allowing them to buy power when it’s cheap and sell when it’s high, with prices changing every five minutes. He showed how Amber’s automation platform, SmartShift, integrates with systems like Tesla Powerwall 3, SolarEdge, and Enphase to optimise battery behaviour automatically — or let customers take manual control when they want to trade themselves. The session also covered: How the Victorian “Cheaper Home Batteries Program” can deliver rebates of up to $17–18,000 per home. Real customer examples from Lightning Energy achieving net credit on power bills using Amber’s trading software. The role of homeowners in accelerating the shift to 100% renewables, contributing over 2 GWh of distributed battery storage across Australia. Transparent discussion of Amber’s model, venture funding, and customer support growth. Benjamin and Luke closed the session by exploring how smart automation, dynamic pricing, and new battery technology are reshaping what’s possible for Australian homes, and why now is the right time to learn how to make the most of it. They also demonstrated Amber’s ROI calculator, showing typical Victorian payback periods for modern battery systems.