PV Feed In Tariff

But the kWh tariffs are the business of the utility companies only. ESBN have no say over this at all. The mystery continuous...

Some suggesting on Facebook they spoke to energia and their rate is going to be 7c from August for fit.

Any word from bord gais on their rate by anyone? I left them start of June but in that time left them with just over 1000kwh since mid February when the law came in regarding fit. I will be following up with them for payment for all exported up to the date I left

So first they said anyone without a smart meter would get the deemed export payment, then they said it was up to ESB to provide the deemed export, now the only people who are eligible for the deemed export (which apparently is back to them now, not ESB) are those who are "ineligible for a smart meter".

I’d say the only reason to be ineligible for a smart meter right now is if you are on a d/n tariff which would mean you’d get the deemed export (their 3/6 post)

It will all be short lived anyway, we are all to have them by 2025 which isn’t really that far away… you won’t get fat on the FiT in the meantime! 🤑

Well that's the latest thing I've asked, what exactly defines an ineligible customer for a smart meter.

And if my current tariff expires, and I sign up to a new day/night one, does that mean I've had the chance to go smart and decided not to, hence I'm off the scheme?

Such an absolute mess.

What about people who have zero mobile network signal though? Where I live I can't get a signal from any provider unless I get on my roof! From what I see it's the 2g band being used so even that is impossible to get where I live. I expect some interesting times ahead with my provider but at least I have the old reversing meter so I will wait for a court order to replace that if need be.

Can we gather up the known FIT rates and update the main FAQ page? Would like to see the published info somewhere online at least. Reward the early adopters like

When I signed up to the first smart plan they put me on a basic plan for the first 30 days as it takes that for the initialisation of the smart meter. They told me if didn't have a specific signal level there would be no online access to usage and could not go on specific plans like cheap EV plan but just their basic smart plan (most expensive)

Yep pinergy day units are extremely high on smart plans - 36c but their ev rate from 2-5 am is great at 5c. Not suitable for majority unless good battery storage and good PV output

In those 3 hours you could get 9kWh into your powerwall with a ME3000SP (15kWh with a 5kW hybrid) and 20kWh into your car every day. If you do have fairly big PV and powerwall and not huge electricity consumption outside of these hours, that could be an option with the 13-14c FIT as long as that means your peak unit use is still minimal

Yep as Graeme said have 100amp charging or I wouldn't have took chance on this plan. That together with the couple KW a day in worst months of winter should see me through as our winter usage is roughly 12kw average a day. Compared to the 509 euro rural standing charge I was on with bord gais these are also just under 300 euro cheaper a year on their standing charge so could afford some small usage in winter and still be up compared to that but don't intend to use any day time units with them.

100% - pay for what you use not for the bonuses of the morons at the elec companies.

I've been saying the same thing about motor tax for many years (since well before there were any electric cars around). It should be abolished and the tax should be on the fuel.

Yes but the most important law of taxation is that collection must be easy. Far easier to collect tax on fuel than motor tax. Far easier to up the income tax than to collect individual TV license fees (a joke in this country). Far easier to tax excise duty of alcohol at wholesale level than to ask individuals to put aside €1 for every pint they drink and expect them to pay it in their yearly tax return 😂

I can see that conversation at 2a.m. how many did I have? Was it you that bought the third round or me? Never mind on January with the tax return: you spent what on pints?

Yeah, those standing charges and how they relate to the PV feed-in-tariff begs belief. The levels of obfuscation that goes on with the suppliers pricing plans. Geez. While I've been lazy and not switched providers, I doff my cap to bonkers.ie for doing the leg work.

I can however get in behind a reasonable standing charge for a service. Myabe what.... €100 or so for the year, and it should be the same across all providers. My thinking is that well if I use no electricity, well they still have to have accountants, and service techs, indirectly pay for step-down transformers (even if I don't use it), but yeah.... €500 knicker for something which I may not even user a single 1Kwhr. Cowboys Ted ! :-)

Jonathan - good find on that RMDS discussion. Very interesting.

Well 🤬 the rest of them will follow suit I bet

Anyone know who George Lee is on about on the news this evening saying 3 companies have announced the rate of between 13.5c and 17.5c? I know two who have announced the 13.5c and 14c but the 17.5c is new to me and can' find anything more about who it is.

To be fair they're probably telling the truth, I get the impression that forward thinking is strongly discouraged at many energy companies

Possibly, but you would imagine RTE would be announcing up to date news on the FIT. I was hoping one of the bigger suppliers eventually showed their cards. It's a joke at this stage all the green trumpet blowing about it being paid from the 1st of July and here we are still in the dark and not knowing the red tape each company will put in place. 🙄

If government was really interested in solar generation, they would be giving generous tax breaks on the cost of the install.

Grants never seem to work in Ireland as prices just inflate to match the grant.

For them to talk of taxing exported power from the ordinary homeowner is absolute lunacy.

I could see exported power being taxable if your power bills were negative over the year but trying to tax a part of a domestic contract where the other side of the same contract is not tax deductable is nuts imo.