PV Feed In Tariff

@yankinlk Could you please clarify what you mean by "they have already froze my discount"? Was it that whatever % discount from standard was applied during your contract remained after your contract expired? If so did you have to do anything like call them up for that to happen? Or was the discount in your out of contract bill just the same except applied to a new higher unit rate after the contract expired?

I'm asking because I think Energia kept my discount after my contract expired but I've only had a few weeks out of contract on my latest bill, not sure if the discount will be there on the next bill.

That's nice. Bord Gais offered me about fifth of the discount I had for my renewal... and about half what they offer to new customers. I think I'll be moving to EI next. I know some recommend Energia but I'm cautious with their issues of late.

I asked BG about the feed-in payment when I leave them next month. They said they'll pay to my bank account but didn't say when. Just March 2023 "approximately". I don't like that word in context.

I can't find it on the site, but boards has an EI advertisement that says switch for 150 cash to new customers. I love cash.

I had a similar experience and renewed on the understanding that my existing discount would be kept. It was for a couple of weeks but then reduced to 5.5%. It’s back up to 14% but I’m still chasing them to honour what they offered and what I accepted. Seems to be an IT glitch in their system according to them and that it shouldn’t be offering high discounts. Will see how it pans out.

maybe it's just for the electricity & gas plans?

Yes am in the same boat. I suspect they are not willing to manually calculate for everyone on a DN meter.

Yes, ESBN provide the data, either actual (smart meters) or deemed (MCC02), and then the suppliers pay based on the kWh reported by networks.

It's not a manual calculation for DN meters though, it's automatic once you know the size of the system which they must given the number of units was calculated for the previous bill.

@idc Ah comon what % of homeowners do you think change their system after installation? If you take everyone into account - not just the enthusiasts who follow the Renewable Energies thread on Boards - I bet the number is less than 1 in 500. Also it isn't just 'ah sure we paid him 50 euro deemed export last month'. The number of units is stated on the bill - it's not just the amount paid that is shown. For a day/night meter the only way you can get to the number of deemed export units is by first having the size of the installation to do the calculation.

The providers know nothing of your system (deemed export, size or otherwise). They get a kWh figure from ESB Networks and your provider pays you accordingly. That kWh figure is all they know. They wont know that the figure is going to be the same every month. ESB Networks control the whole process, not your provider.

Your provider cant be guessing. Until ESB Networks sort out whatever problem they have, we wont get getting another payment.

I put in a request in Sept for payment whenI left them, seems to be no hope of getting paid, only about 60euro but still🙄

Well, finally. SSE paid FIT on this new bill which runs last week nov to last week Jan. A bit frustrating that the number of units was not shown, it at 0.

This led me to wonder if I was paid deemed export instead. SSE did say on the phone last week that they were not paying FIT for smart meters currently due to bad data from ESBN which has been mentioned

If I say that theres 6 months of a 4kw system, at 300kw per kwp a year, then for 600 units in half a year the amount of 150 euro looks in the ballpark.

My total export from my monitoring is also around 600 for the period so its pretty much impossible to tell any more without knowing some of the calculations.

so for other sse customers on smart tariff, of the few who got paid, was kwh figure 0 or not?

Thanks

I was on to them yesterday about an unrelated issue and asked about FIT. Was told as I had left them I was in going to be in the last group to be paid and they had no idea when that might be.