Microgeneration

You are pre 2021,so yes.

The BER rating doesn't matter anymore.

I understood their reasoning for having the BER but in reality it was holding back alot of people.

If you have a poorly rated house it costs 000s to get it insulated, windows replaced, heat pumps etc etc. If you didnt have the money to do that (even with a grant) it meant you were blocked from putting up Solar PV. Alot more people can afford Solar as it can be done for ~€5k.

It makes sense to remove the BER requirement. Any electricity that is generated is less for the grid to generate regardless of what other works you get done.

Will the re-seller you get your bill from be able to decide teh feed in tarriff?

I would have though encouraging the use of domestic batteries, even a small capacity one, would be preferred by the network for load balancing (probably the wrong term) especially as we move to depend on renewables?

I don't know that much about how the grid works and may be off the wall here, but I would have though that having thousands of homes with solar that are one minute self sufficient, and then like for me at lunchtime yesterday, the weather gets rotten, that they all start to suddenly draw 80-100% of needed power from the grid would cause unnecessary spikes, that could be eased by each home drawing some or all of the power from the battery (depending on capacity, charge level, actual usage levels etc). - just to note, my 4.8kw battery had enough charge to mostly tide me over for the 1.5 hrs my production was brutal at lunch.

Same with encouraging charging batteries on night rate during the winter months to use during the day, which would help flatten peak demand on the grid.

Bit off topic but spotted this video earlier. One of the best demos about why you'll never make money off of a FIT. And that's using the UK which has a way better FIT than here

I thought that was the rate for 6kW to 50kW systems. That's set by the CRU, not Pinergy, despite their upbeat press Maybe they're giving the same rate for smaller systems, that'd be fairly decent

It's under customer information, was a bit of a struggle to find it

All the energy companies hide their rates, they don't want you to know there's a better deal available

I still haven't found Bord Gais's rates after 3 attempts

Theirs says its coming soon. They're still working on it. If it was a price rise it'd be here months ago!

https://www.bordgaisenergy.ie/home/help/how-much-can-i-earn

At 4c/kw you will have to donate a whopping 9,000 KWh to the grid to get your standing charges back out of it.

If your array is big enough and you're not depending on EVs for commuting it is nearly worth going off the grid.