PV Feed In Tariff

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

Got my new energia bill and no deemed FIt in this one, last one had it.

Time to make some noise I guess.

Anyone else the same?

Yes, same boat, had one bill with deemed FIT and then the next one not.

It's SSE that we're saying twice a year. BG I think once a year.

Energia should be every bill.

Bord Gais are getting ready to put up their export data (and hopefully payment) so have made some updates to the accounts.

It now shows the MEC and a little microgen icon thing. However, mine says 1kW. There's me thinking it's just BGE being shockingly bad again, but just in case I dropped ESBN an email... and they confirmed the same. Installer never put in updated NC6 to bring MEC up to 6kW. 🙄

I wonder how many are finding the same thing now exports are starting. If I was on a non-smart meter I think I'd be really fecked as I'd get payment based on 1kW. I'm on a smart meter and ESBN is showing export data so should hopefully get paid correctly.

I thought it was every bill with Energia?

The deemed fit process is very cloak and dagger stuff with most of the energy companies. Very bizarre.

that's taken from Energia's FAQ

Yup, thats what I did

Seeing these comments has me wondering. I had a smart meter installed last year and Solar PV installed last month. An NC6 form is submitted for this and so waiting for ESBN and Electric Ireland to process same to accommodate FIT payments. One thing that I've noticed on my Electric Ireland account is that the smart meter data since installation of the smart meter is intermittent. There are data gaps of 2 - 3 days in the overall data history plot. I'm not sure why this is the case but if they are unable to record my exported electricity accurately on account of such data gaps i.e "bad data" then will I inevitably have my FIT based off deemed export formula calculation?

Does anyone know if the "bad data" Energia are referring to relates to the scenario where poor or intermittent 2g signal in an area where smart meters are installed is occurring resulting in only intermittent tracking/recording of half hour packet data for electricity use/export?

I would not get into the habit of turning the fireman's switch on and off on a regular basis. They are meant to stay on until you get a fire. Otherwise too many switchings will result in the switch failing altogether. Fireman's switches are not designed for regular switching.

Initially, I was avoiding day import by flipping my transfer switch but that resulted in the fireman's switch cycling four times a day. After 7 months the switch died. I had another fitted but it too died when my installer was doing some experiments to discover why the fireman's switch was cycling in the morning when off-grid.

I am now on my third switch and leave the system on grid 24/7 unless there is a power cut.

Besides, how are you going to get any FIT if you are not connected to the grid?

I see. Well, you can remove it. Just take the cables out and plug them into each other; male to female, from each array to the appropriate inverter connector. So long as you don't mix polarities and arrays then all will be well. I bypassed mine for a month whilst waiting for a new fireman's switch but to be honest I was worried the whole time...

The reason being that if your house burns down and it is discovered you bypassed the switch (assuming you didn't electrocute any of the firemen and they're not hunting you down first) then the loss adjuster will report that to your house insurer and you might not get a penny.

About a week after you confirm nc6 is received by ESB, they start counting. Never assume your installer submitted anything, get it from esb in writing.

It's in the thread a few pages back... Email them yes

@Jonathan do you think you could update the FAQ with the ESB email address? Maybe use @Granolite post as an example of why you need to follow up post-install.