Is there any reason left not to go smart meter?

That sounds promising…

Did you call or email them? If you called them, did you ask to speak to a particular person or was it just whoever answered the phone? Do they say they’ll contact you again in 6 months or did it just happen to be roughly 6 months whenever they did so?

It naturally exports a little bit. You can compensate for this with the "grid trickle feed" option that can be set somewhere between 0 and 500W in steps of 10W. I leave it at zero, which suits me fine with the smart meter and the very generous feed in tariff

What doesn't help me is that I have an enormous length of cable for the CT clamp between inverter and CU. I'm kinda waiting on the Sunsynk long announced wireless CT to become available to buy, couldn't bother tidying up in the mean time

There's also a setting in Sunsynk (and also on the phone app) where you can switch between "limited to home" - the default setting I normally use and "selling first". So when PV dies down in the evening, I switch to "selling first", I can specify "max sell power" i.e. 3000W, then it starts dumping 3kW into the grid. I switch back when I go to bed or obviously before 2AM as I want to max import between 2AM and 5AM and don't want to export anything during these hours 😁

It's actually constantly importing a little (0-50w while generating) and then it settles down once power comes from the batteries/at night

I'm not really seeing it export anything.

I'd like to move to a meter as well since they now recommend it if the CT cable is over 10m

are they going to base your level pay on last 3 months usage from the smart meter did they say. Thanks

Got my notice from ESBN saying that they are going to swap out my D/N meter soon, got another letter from them this morning saying that a contractor will be in touch shortly (TLI) to do the retrofit. Decided to call them to get an idea, booked in now for 4 weeks’ time...excellent stuff

Finally will I get full benefit for my FIT and can use the night time boost for charging the EV, should save me at least €500-600 per year.

Nope, but what does it matter? 😂

It will adjust down to whatever is a more appropriate level within a few months and then they will pay you the balance if they owe you.

Exactly. The pinergy deal only really makes sense if you can import 10-15kW during the 3 hour window, fill up at least 35-45kWh of batteries, and then do not use any day rate because they charge punitive day rates.

I worked it out for my use case (3 EVs, 40kWh of home storage, 6kW inverter) and the flogas deal with 13c night rate and 24c fit works out better for me once the day/night smart meter RM108 is installed, vs the pinergy meter. Before that, I'm not exporting anything and only importing at night rate, so I'd actually need the longer window.

Have a look at my 2 posts #271 and #275 in this thread, they had no issues pushing mine back 3 times "18 months" and said they will do so until ESBN start asking questions.

Going on last year's grid demand from October on, if I can get it put back to Jan, the meter will have rectified itself.

Deemed FIT stops in October or so ESBN says. Anyone got another confirmation of that?