Pinergy wins for me just, if I max my inverter by adding more panels ( the plan).
Then there is level pay... And I just signed up again to Energia.
Level pay is not actually a thing, my pinergy bill went down to about €5 after the first three months after they gauged the export business
Just got an email from Bord Gais saying I will be getting my 1st FIT payment (joined them in October) and in the email it said also that they will be paying at least 4 times a year….I thought it was only twice a year but this is good news if they are changing
It's a new requirement, FIT payments must be no more than 4 months from generation.
seems the cru has at least one tooth :P Every bill should have been standard though.
Yes I don't understand why it's not just read the meter the same as import readings. Unneeded complication.
so they can hold onto your money and improve their cashflow
This ^
Even disorganised Flogas has gotten their **** together, last two bills had the FIT payments at the same time as the import bill
I moved to Energia last January and I will be looking at my options now. The timing of the change to FIT will be a factor but it’s interesting to see that people get an actual payment from other suppliers. I have had credit on my account all year but never got any payments. I don’t really mind because it meant that I had built up a good buffer to cover winter usage.
I don't think any suppliers will send you money, they all just credit your account. They'll transfer any credit to your bank account when you switch (except government credit, they get sent to your new supplier)
You can also ring them up and request they send any excess credit, I haven't tried this but pretty sure a few here have done that
What I do is setup the level pay amount to take account of expected export credit, so credit usually builds up over summer and gets used in winter when the heating is on more often
We are with Energia and you have to mail them if you want any credit back, or it moved to the gas account, not sure what way they will do it with the government energy credit, I assume same.
When we switched early last year Electric Ireland took for ever to pay all the credit back over a grand with the gas. (never doing level pay again).
Yeah we switched from Energia to Flogas about 18 months ago and had to get €500 or so of credit returned. It took about 2-3 weeks I'd say, couple of emails and phone calls.
Part of the delay (so they said) was that it had to be escalated to management because the amount of credit was so high
Took 9 weeks for flogas to refund me.
They were quick in getting it organised, but had a back log of 8 weeks.. suppose they were on schedule...
Nope. Pinergy will actually send you money. You need to ask for it, it takes a week or two and you need to have a credit of about €200 left in the account after, but I received a very nice €1100 from them into my bank account just a week before Christmas 😁 Not their first payment that year either
Yeah but you still have ask, none of the suppliers will automatically send you the FIT as money into your bank account (which I think is what Panrich was asking about?)
You're right there! Just that Pinergy pay you onto your bank account no probs any time you ask. Takes about a week or two tops (which is still silly)
Airtricity are increasing prices from 2nd April, the day after fools day? insert witty joke here
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0228/1499494-sse-airtricity-price-hikes/
The company said the latest price increases are in response to rises in external costs, including network charges and wholesale energy costs.
If wholesale energy costs are rising presumably FIT will as well?
I've heard of this before, I believe it's called optimism
If they raise the FIT it'll no doubt be delayed by 6 months for "operational reasons" or something
I see you did what many people do and have mistaken optimism for my sarcasm
I guess I'm the optimist then 😂
MOD: See new thread here:
It certainly isn't me anyway
Urgh Seems like this thread is broken.. wonder will this fix it
I'll be leaving them on 1st April. My account is in credit, however a large proportion of the credit is the government handout we received during the winter.
I presume they'll refund this as well?
Post to fix the thread
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Nope, still borked 😬
Has anybody ever tried charging up their battery on night rate and exporting those electrons to the grid? Is it even possible?
A quick calculation, I am paying 13c/kWh on night rate and my FIT is 19c/kWh on a 5kWh battery that's a 30c profit per cycle. If I have a 5kW inverter it should take an hour to charge and another hour to discharge so over a 9hr night rate I can charge up 5 times (and subsequently export 5 times) for €1.50/day, €45/month, €540/year
