PV Feed In Tariff

Same nonsense I have been receiving from them as they owe me over 200e from feb-June. Complaint in over the weeks now, several phone calls where the agent tried to say needed to be their customer now to get it along with several other ridiculous excuses.

Contacted cru twice as well as official complaint with them too.

Latest response from cru today is

Thank you for contacting the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU).

If a customer has chosen to switch their supplier before they have received payment for their exported electricity, the CRU expects that:

-      the customer’s new supplier [as-switched-to] will remunerate the customer for electricity exported from the date of switching, subject to eligibility and applicable contracts in place with that supplier; and

-      the customer’s previous supplier [as-switched-from] will remunerate the customer for payments for electricity exported up to the date of switching, subject to eligibility and applicable contracts in place with that supplier. 

The CRU has been advised the following by Bord Gáis Energy:

‘if a customer leaves us prior to having completed 12 months export, any outstanding payments for exported electricity completed will be paid to them. There is no requirement to renew a supply or export contract, we will pay any outstanding amounts owed’.

We would advise that you contact BGE to clarify their position on this matter, as you may have been provided incorrect information by their agent.

Yours sincerely,

BG are a shower of ******** alright, look at the crap they sent me:

They also owe me Feb-August

Same shite that I went though with SSE when I left them in Sept (that they refused to pay from Feb -> Sept). They wanted me to install a smart meter NOW while I'm with Energia so that they would pay me the money owed while I was with them. WTF my current meter situation with Energia has to do with what I had installed in the past is beyond me - but they seemed adamant that this was the "official policy" from ESB Networks.

Lodged an official complaint. Got nowhere. Decided that life is really too short to spent it on the phone arguing with muppets and have moved on. Very happy with Energia so far. FIT credited to my account last bill (€45 or so) and no nonsense. Their (Energia's) website is a bit "meh" compared to SSE's in terms of historic charting etc, but have excel etc.

Nothing from Electric Ireland for me, some of my neighbours got theirs today.

I put a day/night meter in back in August, would this effect anything? Deemed fit isn't hard to figure out for 3 months...

Energia applied the 2nd electricity credit of €200 to my account today, no fuss, just efficient administration. at this rate we won't need to pay for any winter day units. so I'm very conscious of how fortunate we are, to be in the position where we got capital-cost grant aid, fair CEG prices, and now this credit.

Got an email from Elec Ireland today to say their €50 credit and the next €200 gov credit would be applied to my account at the start of Jan

"This €50 Winter Credit will appear in your online account from 2nd January 2023 and will be automatically applied to your next bill from 3rd January 2023, in addition to the second instalment of the €200 Government Electricity credit. You do not need to do anything.  "

I still have 9 months on mine and think I will change over in February too. Will go with pinergy and make that the 50 cancellation fee back pretty fast.

I'm genuinely worried I will never receive the fit from them.

Sorry old post but I came across and would like to ask the question.

Would you not give the battery/ inverter a "hard" life if charging/discharging at max specs for 3 hours every day?

I recall watching a video of a lad who burnt some battery cells (well after 8 years though) doing this.

Are you agreeing to March?

As I posted earlier in this thread I have been through the complaint process already with BG and they have paid me in full already (I’m a Energia customer now).

You should be insisting on the same. Payment now please!!

These cells can be charging a hell of a lot higher than 70A before getting anywhere near max allowed charging. They are designed to allow higher amperage than what I'm doing with them safely.

If anything this is less charge put into them than the high continuous amps that everyone's solar does during daytime pv charging in spring, summer months

Would I be correct in assuming revenue will want their pound of flesh from the €735 and not the €317 as that's the true value derived and will the difference be paid to you in due course?

As you're over the threshold I'd be curious to know how onerous the self assessment will be for those of us doing it for excess supply to the grid.

Interesting this, we're also with EI, I actually tweeted them asking if they were intending increasing their FIT rates in line with the 35% increase in charge rates, got the reply I thought I'd get. NONE.

tolerance .. reducing