PV Feed In Tariff

Got first Energia bill with FIT payment on it, although it's for less units than our smart meter says we've exported so I guess that means the installer was slow about sending the NC6 form to ESB and we're getting paid for exports from that date rather than from Feb. Did just get a call from energia about renewing with them as my contract is up in Dec (yikes, i missed when all the suppliers discounts went from ~40% to 10%!) and I think I'll move to SSE, pretty much the same unit rates and discounts but the FIT is 24c vs 18c

I switched from EI to Energia, EI informed me when they start paying out FIT they will pay from Feb till Day I left them my estimated export. Waiting on my next bill to see what happens with Energia. I can see my 200 euro government credit but no sign of FIT value yet.

I would expect ESBN networks should be telling provider type of meter you have - given its ESBN who would be telling suppliers your current meter reading values

Many thanks for posting the link to the ESB Networks account page. I was able to register ok and see data from the month of install on.

The 'Power contributed to the grid' on my account looks way off though. Some days show a higher 'Active Export Interval' than Solis say I generated. Wouldn't know which of them is wrong. Will see what comes through in the FIT payment.

If you open the excel file and click on the column heading (C), down in the bottom of the window you will see an average, count and sum.

Sum is the total of all the readings added together.

You can just highlight the the rows of a particular month also.

I did this on a laptop though so might not be as easy if using a phone.

I can only see about three weeks worth too, nc6 form was completed in July as was smart meter install. Anyone know why?

Actually should add the day it shows from was the 21 Oct which if I remember correctly was the day I switched from SSE to BG. would this have anything to do with it?

Yes, mine is the same, just showing the data from the date i switched. I suppose a limitation of the system unfortunately - your supplier notifies ESBN when you switch and then they probably base the validation on these parameters

As far as I could tell it's the cumulative kW for the previous 30 minutes. When I divided by 2 it matched up nicely with the kWh from my own bills and simulations.

I agree the format is 'genius'.

You can see how I parsed it here: https://github.com/Tonyslogic/tout-compare/blob/main/dataPopulation/makedbFromESBNSmartDataFile.py

It's a massive step forward. A huge gap for folk was detailed data on when they use electricity. A minority invest in monitors and what to do with them. Some like me take a leap (on solar) based on broad assumptions. It works, but there are many that see the assumptions as unacceptable.

To the best of my knowledge the detail data only goes back as far as the date the meter was configured for hourly reporting.

Until recently this was only done if you signed up to a smart plan. Most people will only have a few weeks data. I think that's down to a change in interpretation of GDPR. I think it's actually being challenged in the courts too...

Did some interesting calculations earlier regarding what effect a smart meter will have when I get one

Still waiting on my panels and battery so it's all hypothetical at the moment. Also I had to do some guesswork on what rates I'll be charged since Energia have 4 rates on the smart EV plan as opposed to 2

Anyway, the plan would still stand to use the battery to minimise export and avoid day and peak rates

So the result was

€75 per month on a D/N meter with deemed export

€110 per month with a Smart meter and metered export

€100 per month if I stay on the D/N meter and lose the deemed export

Now at that point it's firmly in the noise between getting a Smart meter or not, but it definitely shows the value proposition for a Smart meter is basically nonexistent at current prices

Of course a large chunk of that was down to the deemed export, so I can see why they'd be trying to get rid of it

Anyway, it's a problem for 2024 or whenever they install one in my house

I'll probably still say yes anyway because I suspect that as soon as the majority of houses are on smart meters then suppliers will jack up the standing charge on older meters to nudge the holdouts back to obedience

I think if your child is paying tax then they've got an income in which case social services will be on your case 😂

I wrote to them a while ago asking how to file it and they responded saying they don't know, even though they acknowledged the first €200 is tax free

I'm guessing they haven't bothered sorting it out since they're assuming the number of people getting more than €200 from the FIT will be negligible (they're in for a shock in that case)

Would it be possible for ESBN to calculate all exported even if now only shows since I switched provider? Also I can only see exported on the csv file and not imported, anyone else the same?

Same, smart meter standard plan

So are you getting metered export instead of deemed export then. Or do you need to sign up for a smart rate for any of that?

That's decent, at least you can stay on the non smart tariff then for a while without losing all your export

I think Energia have a smart EV rate which gives 4 hours at ~13c/kWh, might be good to get some more juice into the batteries?

Rest of the rates looked awful but that seems par for the course these days