PV Feed In Tariff

That's like saying when we will colonize Mars 🤣

Received my bill from energia this week and again no feed in payment. PV installed since 2019 and smart meter installed mid February 2022. I have previously been told I would receive payment in August, then October and again promised on my December bill.

The excuse this time

"Thank you for your email.

I tried to call you today but unfortunately, I was unable to reach you.

We had started to work on the Microgen bills 3 weeks ago but have encountered problems the with the bills.

The ESB is sending us incomplete data, so bills are wrong or not issuing at all. As a result, we’ve had to stop issuing CEG bills for the time being.

I sincerely apologise for this, and we are working with the ESB to start this back up again A.S.A."

Thats good news, lets see if they pay my deemed export from Feb till the date I moved to Energia!

Yes they messed up my bill too. I got the CEG payment but the wrong tariff was applied. I contacted and they advised it would be fixed with a reissued bill.

Yes I got the deemed export too. I have exported less than 20kWh to the grid since I got mine installed in the start of September. 8.2kWp and 6kW inverter. I aim to send as little as possible to the grid. When the batteries (currently 20kWh plus a few kWh in lead acid, plans to add more capacity next year) are full, I do as much housework as possible. I charge the car. I fill up batteries. I heat the water (we have 2 hot water tanks). I'd rather heat the space on my patio than send energy back to the grid for free. Most of the 20kWh I sent was in the couple of days where we had panels installed but no battery.

It's free in that I get the same amount for exporting 0 or 1000kWh a year.

Spent about an hour on the phone with Energia today and three call backs from them. Was told by them previously to make sure I was on the micro generation scheme with them when submitting my next read after it took 3 months to issue the first bill.

Long story short they’ve cancelled the first bill for Sept-oct for some reason credited the money to our account, can’t issue a second bill for this period November-Dec as we’re out of the billing cycle and they’re not allowed issue it the lady said so we’ll get a 6 month bill sometime in February. She then worked out what we currently owed (incorrectly) so that if we wished to make a payment we could to be further in “credit” but when I told her she was off checked and agreed.

All apologies and very nice then told me that deemed export has been a complete mess, Esb info given has been incorrect and unusable her words and that she thought that they’d have it sorted for my February bill but having spoken to the back room team doesn’t think so now.

Have to say she was a lovely lady and doing her best but was filled with confidence after the call.

Sure... But I'm talking day night meter deemed export. The only anyone needs is PV array size on the nc6 form. Get meter type, size of array...done.

Having said that I hear you. ESBN lost my nc6 once, I suppose they probably lose the data too

Smart meter?

So they’re just estimating your units until you get a smart meter?

Can the electronic day night meters show export to grid? Not sure if I actually saw that option in the meter.

They have been configured not to. The meter "knows" when you are exporting as the directional arrow changes on the display, however the meter is set to not count.

I parted company with EI as a supplier on Dec 6th. I wanted to calculate the FIT owed (they did not include this on my last bill despite it being after Dec 2nd). I downloaded the HDF file from ESB Networks. It has been reset to only show data since Dec 6th when I moved to Energia. Luckily I had one from late Nov -- still a bit frustrating as I am missing some small amount of export data.

Just a word of warning for those looking to utilize the HDF for import/export figures -- Download the HDF before switching.

And if interested, here is the python code that parses and calculates fit: https://github.com/Tonyslogic/tout-compare/blob/main/fitFromHDF.py

It runs only from the command line

Got mine from EI this morning, approx €315 from deemed export. Checked the logs and deemed kWh is only 5kwh less than I actually exported.