PV Feed In Tariff

Contact ESBN and see if they have it in file. If it was a housting estate, maybeeee builders submitted them all at build time. You only get paid the FIT export credit from date it is submitted.

networkservicesbureau@esb.ie with your MPRN and details of when house was built or meter went live if you know it.

@yankinlk Probably want to edit the company name out. Not allowed name installers. All I would say about a company you mentioned is do not activate any contract with them unless you want to pay through the nose no matter what carrots they dangle. It is an offer they are putting about but do the maths on the cost of the system to get the truth.

It's only an offer with Activ8, but they're generally so much more expensive than the competition that it erases any gains from the higher FIT

Edit: here's an idea, get the smallest possible installation from Activ8, then once you're registered for the higher FIT from SSE, sell the system components and get another company to install a big system and update the NC6. It'll cost more initially but what's the bet that SSE won't even notice that you got a larger installation from another company?

Not yet. Have a digital meter.

The quote was not really the issue... It was the amount promised to be paid back in FIT annually that i was questioning. Btw my friend was not aware of the 200 tax free limit either.

Any idea what the max amount of fit payback should be? Assume south facing 5kw system, no battery and no one home during the day.

Thanks. So thats about 500 euro at .34 cents FIT... Thanks. More than i thought but a LOT less than a****8 quoted him

I would steer clear of them unless he got a very good quote, which they don't do going by people who have asked on various platforms for advise on their quotes and a quote they gave me. Put their quote into the quote calculator and see if it's competitive before your friend hands over the money. http://davidhunt.ie/solar/

I am thinking that what a****8 have quoted him... based on a 5KW system... say that it generates abot 5000KW in a year. They are suggesing that 100% of that would go to grid - and he would be paid .34 for that - which is closer to 1700 euro.

Anything wrong with their logic? Other than baseload daily reducing that amount?

the costs of the system are a seperate issue - im not actually saying that part was good or bad.

The part that my friend was most interested in was in the proposal where they showed math... and it said he would send a ton back to the grid and earn a huge payback... I need to double check it was close to 2000 euros a year.

He doesnt have an electric car - and no one is home during the daytime... so it would be a lot going back to grid... im just not conviced he could send THAT much back. I need to check the term of the .34 FIT payment promised. COuld that go down during with the market - or are they promsing some sort of fixed rate over ten years once he stays an SSE customer? devils in the details...

Since I turned on my system in Feb I’ve exported 63.25% of everything I’ve generated. That would be 744 euro if I was getting paid 0.35 FIT.

My 59.73% from PV would be higher; but I made a decision to charge from grid at night even though I don’t have to as it maximises revenue from FIT. I could have let the battery charge from PV in the mornings and afternoon and I’d say I could be closer to 80% from PV. But this is only the good months (Feb - June).

So what I’m badly trying to convey is that I’m actively trying to maximise my export. So take my number of 63.25% as a high watermark. Not much more I could do to get that any higher.

it’s a 7.5 kWp SE ground mount.

Yeah im going to check his offer paperwork

maybe i'm being a bit stupid, or missing something. Whats to stop somebody charging up a battery using night saver rates and exporting it back to the grid during daytime at higher rates? I guess theres some kind of software needed to know to charge at night & discharge during the day?

Also on the below, my rough calculations, assuming you only generate about 40% average of capacity daily, and 5 hours generation a day, 5Kw*5hr*365days*0.4%= 3650 KW produced over a year. @ 0.34c per unit thats 1241 in FIT.

40% is a figure i pulled out of the sky to try to take some account of variability of sunshine, hours of sunshine, etc.

I’ve got it all set up this way in home assistant; it’s not complicated if you’re already using home assistant.

I do exactly as you suggested; I look at the solar forecast for the following day and make a decision on how much to dump (I do this between 1-2am just before the cheep rate starts) and then buy it back for half the price between 2-4 am. I just did it as a proof of concept really; but it’s good for about 0.50 cent a day in additional returns with a normal 10kWh battery.

But I’m not doing it anymore; however if we got something like the octopus flux tariff in Ireland where the export rate went up to 0.40-0.50 cent I would consider doing it again.

I can’t say I agree with the logic here. Regardless of fit, solar is a very good investment in terms of return. Even the worst payback systems will have funded themselves after 10-12 years and with a further life span of 20 years will give a substantial return on investment even taking unit rate prices from before the crazy inflation.