PV Feed In Tariff

If you sold your house and it had 6kw worth of panels, would the new owner get the low FIT or high FIT. Or would they get feck all.

Am I seriously reading this correctly! Fit payments may now start in June next year! If so then the government and the cru are completely taking the pi*s! What happened to Eamonn Ryan promising on the news only two weeks ago that it will 100% start from January and this following on from eu guidelines that it should be arranged from last July.

Also get the feeling from the cru wording that you will have to enter a specific plan with your supplier which you then don't get your cheap night time rates so essentially cancels out any small fit. Only in Ireland would a regulator allow this to happen!

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/who-is-eligible-to-sell-surplus-electricity-back-to-the-grid/

I'd assume they have to allow you to no matter what meter until they change it but says you have to accept a smart meter if they plan an install at your house or if refused no fit. Fit can be as low as 0c so not exactly enticing. But the loophole get out for the suppliers is the ability to only pay out if you accept a feed in plan which they will I would think have higher day/night rates

I'm self consuming 100% except for a handful of exceptionally sunny blue sky days in summer (and that's without a water diverter or charging the car - purely my high consumption and use of the 10kWh battery)

The grid of course is the best battery, but not if we're not really paid for it. If the government were really serious about giving solar a massive kickstart, they would force net metering onto the utility companies. See what that did in California / Germany / Netherlands. Many, many houses / businesses are covered in PV now.

Net metering actually means you get the units back at zero cost

So if you have a medium size install of say 4kwp, producing 4MWh per year and you use 4MWh per year, your total electricity bill for the year would be zero. No standing charges either. That's the way to do it. Money for nothing and electricity for free 😂

The way it works in California.

Is a smart meter mandatory in order to get the long awaited FIT? I have a day/night/export meter (elster A1140) so I'm wondering if I'll have to give this up - depending on the fit rates of course😉

I see there's mention of a new "simplified process" for applications above 6kW -- starting on 17th Dec.

Well thats a game changer

It is like that in some EU countries already but it is not without faults. You can export to grid and use grid as a battery. When you need, you take back from grid and pay 4-5c for storage. But that works best only if you are on single tariff. The other problem is that you have to use all stored electricity until certain date, I do not think this would be a problem in here unless you have massive PV. But the main problem is the grid itself, as it can handle so much. People in remote location or estates with multiple house with PVs are capped at how much they can export as the local grid just cannot handle the load without the upgrade. Now this is in country with housing estates that have 3phases coming to each house and average PV system is 10kW. I have yet to see a house in Ireland wired with 3 phases. I think if half of the house had decided to put PVs on start exporting we would have problems. I do not think anyone has thought about PV during Celtic tiger boom and there would big investments and upgrades required to accommodate this. Could this be the reason why FIT is taking so long.

of ya go lads