PV Feed In Tariff

NC6 was submitted by installer in December. It seems that SSC don't pay you for exported energy unless you go on a smart tariff..

Don't give up, I reckon you gotta be paid if you've been in a smart meter since them.

Step1 is NC6 needs to be confirmed as in place by ESBN, and ask them the date it was submitted. So either get a copy of that confirmation email from your installer (I did that) or contact ESBN directly via email. I asked our installer for a copy as heard stories here it was never submitted for some people

2) Then contract CRU asking them to confirm you're eligible for FIT on a smart meter but not on a smart tariff. You've got to be afaik. CRU ask for your MPRN and replied to me in a day or so (but am on a different meter to you). I used a form on their website.

3) Then contact your energy provider with the response from CRU asking for the credit. They can't object once it's in writing from CRU. And include the email confirmation of the submission date of your NC6 from ESBN. You're entitled to FIT from the NC6 submission date or date you joined them, whichever is more recent.

Note for all: CRU confirmed to me in writing that I don't get FIT while on a 24hr meter. Reply below

Dear Customer,

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

Please Note: The deemed quantity is applied to customer waiting on a smart meter installation to replace a Day /Night Meter. As such, the deemed quantity is not applicable to you as you had a 24 hr meter.

MCC01 (24 hour meter) – eligible for a smart meter

MCC02 (day/night) – not yet eligible for a smart meter

Regarding 24-hour meters - as they are MCC01 meters, it’s always been the case throughout the microgen scheme so far that those customers would only qualify for the export payment when they have a smart meter installed.

This is because MCC01 customers are/have been eligible for a smart meter for some time now.

Customers who have day/night or other meter types qualify for the deemed payment, as their meter type is not yet eligible for a smart meter exchange. 

We hope this clarifies matters for you. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.​

Hi all, i have 1759kw exported from 08/05 to 09/06 but the energy provider are paying based on 879KWH.

It's exactly half...is that because esb take reading in 30min intervals?

If you are getting the 1759 form the HDF file from ESBN then you need to divide the half-hourly figures by 2.

At least for import numbers. I presume the same for export.

1 KW for 30 mins = 0.5kWh...is I presume the logic.

Were you ever paid a FIT from them?

No I was only with them a month. I got a support credit of 35 euro which offset the early termination fee of 50. Jumped on the f@@gas offer

The form has been sent on by my installer, I have a smart metre but I'm not on a smart plan. When I looked at the info on the BG website it seemed to imply I had to register with BG for a microgeneration plan to get the FIT

I don't believe you need to be on a smart plan to get FIT. Just to have the smart meter.

They pay 0.24c including vat and say they pay by billing period. https://www.flogas.ie/about-solar-pv/micro-generation.html

They usually pay the FIT every 2 months with the regular billing cycle

However that creates a wrinkle if you send in readings every month, they won't send you your FIT on the same cycle

If you email them requesting your FIT payment then they'll send it out every month

I got a statement from SSE for the CEG (FIT) payment too. It's got 10 payments listed from date of Smart meter install on 7th of March 2023 until 30th of April. Some payments say Metered Export, some say Deemed Export. Deemed export (5 payments) are all for a duration of 1 day with a figure of €1.18 for 4.8960kWh. Other payments range from €10.81 to €92.68 with between 2 and 26 days of generation. Must be errors with the ESB data when you see that occasional glitch. This is a tad worrying. For the first 'Deemed' day on the statement my actual generation was 37.41kWh, of which I probably used 5 or 6kWh myself as it's a weekday. If my export amount was 30kWh I should be getting €7.20, but I only got €1.18.

Is it that the Smart meters are not that smart? Does the correct figure exported ever get uploaded to the ESB. The figures for the next payment seem to pretty close to expected export for the 5 days listed (75kwh generated with 55kWh exported), then another 'Deemed' export day followed by lots of data I can't check because my wifi router broke so no data on the app. Only got that sorted on the 6th of May...

Anyway, my Smart meter shows the correct export amount. Surely there's a way for that to be uploaded or read in an official way and corrections made or will it be just lost forever in the ether?

I think this only shows recent "1 or 2 weeks" information and limited prior readings (4 consumption per year) that do not include Export?

If you export it gives you everything.

I believe its called the P1 port...relatively simple/isolated serial I/F with very limited 5V supply provided.

I asked ESBN to activate the port for me in Feb, but answer was no.....check back later.

From memory it outputs near real-time very useful info.

It’s madness that we can’t get access to that data from the Smart meter now but hopefully it’ll work in the future.

When I downloaded the data from the ESB website I got over 7000 lines of near useless stuff. Date line is just filled with hash marks. Has anyone a quick way to make sense of it? Like an excel formula?