PV Feed In Tariff

I sent a tweet to Electric Ireland asking:

I have just moved account from you. I have a solar panel system and a smart meter installed. I exported over 900kwh back to the grid. When can I get a payment for this? I signed up to the microgeneration scheme. I emailed ye about this on the 7/10 and still no answer

ELECTRIC IRELAND reply:Hi, we're sorry to hear this. We are experiencing high volumes of customer contacts at the moment. The first payment will be paid by the end of the year. See here for more information:<snip> - link removed

What do you mean "looks like a virus post?" That's the official answer I got when I went on the Electric Ireland twitter account. Won't be posting here again if that's the response I get for trying to help people out

Thx for posting. What email did you send this to? I'm waiting two months for a reply.... multiple emails sent nothing.

Did you ever get a formal email before this saying that they had recvd your nc6 form and accept they will have to pay you fit? I've not heard from them at all....

It was a few things… the visible link took me to a dead page, the hidden tco link looked suspicious and as soon as I posted it the post got edited and it was removed. All reasonable signs of a dodgy link.

No offence intended, just also doing the right thing!

I posted the below on the Switch Suppliers thread but thought some here might have an answer to it. Mods feel free to delete one of the posts if needs be.

Anyone get a date on Bord Gais paying the first €200 credit? All I get trying to access the supposed link on their site is a 404 error. https://www.bordgaisenergy.ie/news/government-electricity-credit I have seen an article https://www.buzz.ie/news/irish-news/200-energy-credit-paid-date-28370179 where all the other suppliers indicate when they are giving it but as usual just like the feed in tarrif Bord Gais are taking the piss by the looks of it.

The best I can make out is it will be between 1st November and 1st of January depending on your billing cycle! How can they get away with the way they just piss down our backs constantly. I see no reason for the credit not to be put on everyone's accounts from all suppliers on the 1st of November like Electric Ireland done.

At least your getting it off your next bill if not already received it on the account as credit. Just like the FIT Bord Gais leave people swinging. I'm lucky I have enough credit on my account to wait but there are people out there who are genuinely struggling and the payment might not get into their account until Jan-Feb bills. A feckn joke. I don't want to derail the thread so might leave it there.

You're probably lucky. If I remember right, you joined a few days after me. I got my bill last week, the deemed FIT was on it, but not yet the €200 credit. I will probably get that on my next bill at the end of this year.

I emailed them at esbnetworks@esb.ie asking them to confirm that my installer had sent in the NC6 form. It was a couple of weeks before they replied, that they had received my NC6 form. Then about 6 weeks later, I had an email from them informing me that their records showed that I had sent in a NC6 form and was entitled to be paid for microgeneration. Their customer service is brutal lately. I emailed them a month ago, asking about payment when I had switched from them. I got no reply, zero. I then went on their twitter account and asked my question again. I then received the above answer the very next day from them. Please see my previous post. Hope this helps.

Yes you will but it will be a conservative estimate based on some formula which more than likely be less than what you actually exported. To get the full benefit you will need a smart meter.

Now some people will use practically all their PV using batteries etc and export nothing and if they don't have a smart meter they will get an estimated FIT as well so it's good for them.

My understanding is that if you have the smart meter installed you will get FIT based on actual amount exported, regardless of whether you are on a smart plan or not.

i should find out in the next week or so as my EI account recently expired and am in the same position.

Can't remember when my SSE bills used to come, but I broke contract with them to go to Energia so I wasn't sure of the schedule. I moved around the 30th of August, got my welcome letter dated 9th of September.

They told me via twitter that it would issue on or after the 4th and that my €200 credit was on it, although I don't see that when I log into the app.

No you don't have to be on a smart meter plan to get FIT. Your smart meter will exactly read and send on to EI, how much kwh you exported back to the grid. I think EI are going to pay FIT every 2 months i.e when you get your 2 monthly bill.

Anypme remmeber what the energia ev rate was before the october increase ?

I signed up to it a few days before the increase, and i am paying 11c night rsye and 40c day rate, i dont think thats what i signed up to, rhe day rate seems high ?

Aug 27.43/7.90 (31% disc) -->35.78/10.31(~28 Sep)-->47.77/13.75(~7 Oct-10% disc)

Above figures are after discount is applied and inc vat.

Someone has probably answered this before but anyway:

How come a provider can change the contract terms with a price increase, while not giving the costomer an option to leave without being penalised,before it takes effect?

It happens with phone companies, why not electric?