PV Feed In Tariff

you could try ask the CRU...... 🤔🙄😭

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Im hearing that BordGais are now saying that they wont be paying FiT until Feb 2023!! The regulator needs to start cracking a whip here. Ridiculous stuff.

Its in law since Feb 2022!

Admin wise, doing something once a year is much easier and cheaper for them of course. Trying to do monthly / quarterly adds way more work. And the overhead of having customers (us) debate the numbers. In theory for any company, reducing the cost of doing business means they can charge less. So for sure the industry would want to pay yearly. Banks do the same with interest for the cents we get per year if an account makes money on interest. Companies are the same with profits on shares.

And I’d be ok with that. Would prefer it's outside the summer when the bills are higher. IE, don’t wanna get the credit in summer when I’m not buying units. They are obliged to refund us if we move provider but would be effort on our part to chase it of course. Often needs a ‘chase’ for the credit when leaving a provider in my experience.  

100% it's bad form that FIT payments are going on the long finger

Yep I was on the phone to Bord Gais and they confirmed payment will be once per year. Also I had to register for microgeneration which I didn't realise needed to be done. I did that and got a confirmation email.

oh no doubt. WHy not let the providers make up arbitrary conditions, pay whenever they want , whatever they want to whoever they want... its not like the regulator gives a toss.

So what does that mean for someone say next year - who might be switching from a different provider that is already paying FIT to them? IF they choose to switch to Bord Gais - they wont get paid FIT cause they have to register for this Microgen Scheme as well?

What are the arbitrary conditions that we know of so far from differnet providers?

• EI requires an NC6 from the ESB (who never confirm wether they recieve it or not, you have to chase that)
• Bord Gas requires you to register for their "Microgeneration Scheme" (and u might need the NC6 as well).

Im ok with the NC6 being the "rule" even though its badly managed , and also doesnt cover someone that later adds more panels - but at least its not a seperate scheme for each provider.

Oh!! That's an interesting one you flagged. Basically, who passes the customer info to your new provider?? Anyones in the know on that?

Solar is very low % of homes. So do the new provider always request info from ESB when any customer moves to them? In which case likes of NC6 would get picked up so we'd be on the FIT list. And even if we were a prior customer before, and moving back now, do they check somehow as otherwise a new solar setup wouldn't appear on their records

Or do they take the info from the prior provider (and what if they don't pass all that info over like NC6 received)?

ESB manage the meters and know who has or has not solar (via NC6) hence i would assume all info flow to/from them to the providers. So when i left EI I wouldn't be surprised that ESB are always in the loop and know who every ones provider is. Similar to when you change meter -- who does your provider inform to do the change - the ESB! Hence i assume when you switch provider its similar provider A lets ESB know they are taking over provision of MPRN #xxx. either they or ESB then inform your old provider to close off the old account. where this gets messy is if there is an issue with your account - happened to me with Gas when i moved to EI originally - for some reason the transfer was rejected! and thus I had EI for electric and my gas stayed with BordGais.

I sure if you look at the contract you have with your provider it will show what the connection is between the provider and ESB is and what details can be shared - I looked into this a few years back when lots of people tried to prevent replacement of backwards rotating meters! but don't remember now

I imagine they would say their electricity generation has to be always on and available, so comes from more expensive sources compared to solar. Worth a try though!

Don't know why they say that as they clearly do allow you to see on the meter screen the total export

Confusing but is that response just badly worded maybe? We know it counts up the units exported on smart meters. But did that person mean you can't see the actual kw exporting in real-time? As in that solar is sending 695w back to grid at this very moment. Then a cloud passes and drop to 200W, cloud gone and up to Xkw....

Could be that alright. Pinergy had said they receive exported units daily from Esb networks so assume will probably be safe for other suppliers too

But on the EV tariff it's deemed export, not actual export. Suits users like me who export probably less than 2kWh a day. Im still getting paid for , i believe,35% export

Indisnaak and they didn't know either

Seems ESB never receivced a NC6 for our install so looks like we will be missing any deemed export until this is rectified. Email sent to the PV intallers and awaiting an update. Assuming the FIT payment will only start when they receive the form and not when the install was done?

Looking at the SEAI application portal and all the docs that had been uploaded are now gone so no way of checking the details there.