PV Feed In Tariff

Unfortunately I got my last bill about a month ago which was before they began paying FIT.

Got my bill today. Should the tariff mention EV plan? That’s what I’m on

No, it tends not to say your plan, but you can see from the rate that it looks about right for the EV plan

Nope, they don't mention the discount percentage anywhere that I've ever seen. There might be a blurb on the payment information on the first page which details when your discount expires, but that'll probably be on the last bill of your discount

It's pretty cheeky I agree, but I always have to go back to the welcome letter for my discount rate

I always take a photo on my phone when I get new contracts so it's always there in case of disputes.

Sse prices all rose 1st oct, day rate from 0.24 to 0.35, night from 0.16 to 0.24, peak I think from 0.25 to 0.44 or thereabouts. Fit from 0.14 to 0.14...

Pure joke and doubt there will be any backlash from the cru about it.

I assume this contains the deemed export figure of 48.95

Anyone with a 6kw inverter and deemed export got similar? With Energia since August

Actually -4 from that as they fudged up the last bill and put in €4 credit.

Can they not take this credit and apply it to the gas bill, going to have a lot of electricity credit piled up.

Going off topic (but linked to having a lot of excess credits on electricity), it’s worth looking to move some heating from the gas boiler to electric rads. I’m doing that at the mo. Plus you’ll burning less gas, which is a win.

If you leave them on a 500w type setting they will keep any room at a constant temp (once the door is closed). Get a temp sensor to knock it off when it hits a room temp. Can get them on the plug (~20 quid on Amazon), so don’t need automation and won’t run all day. You wouldn’t want them on the 2kW setting as they would ate the juice.

We still haven’t turning the gas boiler on and few electric rads are working grand. Yesterday was the first test (mad windy plus cold in a very leaky house). WFH office will stay on electric even when our gas heating comes on (temp fluctuates madly otherwise). Screwfix have a electric rad 500w one for ~30 quid (hard to get ones with low watt settings like that). Even a dehumidifier will heat a small room if people want to try it. Using that for my WFH office now (small room) – needs to run many hours per day but only 140w.

Afaik the pump in gas boilers can use low hundreds of watts alone. Which isn’t warming the house – it’s wasted power. I’d rather use that for heating. I’ll measure it next time I turn the boiler on as was just something I read, so might be well wrong numbers wise. I expect what our pump is moving is like thick soup now, rads haven’t been flushed or treated in 15 years. 

@DC999 - that's it, I'm doing the same. Mate of mine also with a very large PV and battery setup (but with no EV sitting at home during the day) has his Eddi divert heat (once his hot water is full) to a few ancient storage heaters in the colder rooms, he bought those heaters for a tenner I think, nobody wants them any more. There is nobody in his house during the day, but the storage heaters can be programmed to release the heat in early evening. Saves a substantial amount on his gas bill too. Personally a lot of my excess goes into my EV in winter but I also use a lot of direct PV to heat the house (like today which was fairly sunny this morning). I haven't had my gas central heating on yet, apart for 10 minutes to see if it was still working.

Exactly, my mate is a sparks and he just threw some of his mates some pints money and they wouldn't have to fill a skip with them.

Why would you get divorced? His wife and daughters love the bit of extra heat coming from these storage heaters - for nothing and generated from the sun. He has them hidden though behind a sofa or radiator cover as they look a bit dated now, maybe that's what you mean?

Geez I have one in the far corner of my hall that I never used and was going to throw out, is this an easy job to do, I have an eddi as well.

While you’re waiting to get it hooked up to the Eddi, if you have a decent night rate you could turn it on and get it to fill at night. My only experience was of one in a bedsit a million years ago. They are fiddly to get working (so when it outputs the heat and how much. And when it charges so doesn’t hammer the day rate). But you could mess around with all of that.