PV Feed In Tariff

We have PV panels for over two years. We have a rural 24 hour meter and just got our smart meter installed last week.

Left energia early last year and no FIT back from them to date despite numerous calls about it to them.

We had refused a smart meter install last year as the installers had arrived to install one last year while we were abroad. We got a phone call to say they were on the property. We weren't there obviously so they couldn't install it. So we were put back on the list.

We are now with SSE airtricity since August last year and no FIT from them either since. Energia is saying that the ESBN/CRU have said we returned 0 back to the grid. ESB have our NC6 as well.

Is it the case that we are not entitled to be paid as we refused the meter last year?

At this stage it seems futile to chase it up.

It takes at least a month after getting the smart meter installed until it shows up on the ESB portal.

If you were not present when they called why would they have you listed as refusing one? If they couldn't fit it because you were on holiday I doubt they can call that a refusal of one. I would be finding out why you are not getting paid and who said you refused the smart meter. Also if you haven't activated it or accessed data on it be careful as once activated you can never go back to other plans and some have said even accessing the data tied them into being stuck on smart plans when changing supplier. It was mentioned on the switching thread.

For those receiving FIT from SSE Airtricity, I received confirmation that payments are issued in May and October.

The May payment covers the export period 1st October to 30th April.

The October payment covers the export period 1st May to 30th September.

My payments have matched those periods.

If you received a payment on your June bill and it seems smaller than expected then it's because you were paid for export up to April 30th and your May/June export will be in the October payment.

Why one export period is 7 months and the other is five, I don't know.

Once each name on the bill qualifies you can add as many as you like for the €200 each exemption afaik.

So if you have three names on your bill you can go for €600 tax exemption?

Yes if all names are eligible for tax purposes afaik.

Yes and No. You become liable for the tax after €200 credit, but you wont actually be taxed until you declare it in a tax return! 😉

Via your tax return. Self declaration.

Its just considered as income, so it will get the full tax hit as if your employer gave you a pay increase by the same amount.

Our NC6 was active with SSE Airtricity for just a month last year, before we moved to Energia in November, so I didn't bother chasing deemed export with them.

Surprised to receive a €30 cheque for a month's deemed export today, out of the blue!

It's been a good year and more for credits.

The initial €100 government credit at the beginning of last year and then 3x €183.49 on top of that. The return of PSO levy at €97. Also, if you are an SSE Airtricity user then there is an additional return of €24 as SSE are eschewing profit taking for a year.

Personally, we received €123.64 and €340.29 in CEG payments.

In total that's over €1235, which will certainly help with ROI on the purchase of the PV system.

The entire PV system cost €13,300 (6.4KW of panels, 5KW inverter and 5KW battery). After a grant of €3000 we have €9300 - €1235 = €8064 left to pay off.

Also, we can factor in electricity used that we didn't have to pay for as it was solar generated, which I estimate to be about €1000 worth of electricity. Taking that into account we have about €7000 left to pay on the initial €13,000. Almost half paid off in the 16 months since installation.

It's still free money. For those without PV, it helps pay the bills. For those who do have PV, it helps pay the bill of ownership.

You could have said the same about the grant, we would have gotten it anyway. The CEG too. We are never going to use 6MWh of electricity per year so we were always going to get CEG no matter what.

We could close our account with SSE and take the current €1000 credit in the form of a cheque and do the same credit harvest each year (no matter what the value) with different suppliers until we have gained a sum equal to the outstanding on the purchase.

When you say CEG (Clean Energy Guarantee) your talking about FIT (Feed in Tariff) Payments right?

just making sure I’m not missing something here.

I have a question, bought house back in 2016 which had PV panels installed.

I don't have the exact details of the system or installer, but house is exporting small amounts to the grid daily. Builder is not responding to requests for details.

I've heard from another person that ESB only accepting NC 6 forms from the installers.

Question on why is this form really needed? Surely a smart meter would be enough to show how much is exported and pay off that?

But what if, as in a lot of cases, the installation happened before the requirements came into force?

Also what if it's a self installed system? How can you avail of FIT if ESB only accept forms from installers?