PV Feed In Tariff

It does indeed depend - very much so. With 7.8kwp though, you've a fairly sizeable array of panels there. You could be exporting far more than the €400/year that they allow tax free. Does that "really" matter. Probably not. I can't imagine a witchhunt for people getting €460 or even €530 etc, but yeah if you were getting €1000+ in FIT, you might want to be careful with that.

7.8Kwp south facing will generate ~7500kwhr for the year. I'd say your 40Kwh this week was on the low side compared to Winter, but let's say you use the average of 4500Kwh. That would then be you exporting 3000kwh. Which @€0.24/unit = €720. People could get caught out there. Battery can help "hide" that :-)

Just add another qualifying person to the utility bill or more than 1 if you can to avail of the €400 tax free per person named on the bill.

Yup - makes sense. And if you live alone?

Received my 4th CEG (FIT) payment from SSE - detailed - covering Nov-Apr (inclusive) period.

SSE Calculated at 307.67kWh exported from Smart meter, vs my Solis recorded 277kWh exported, so a bit better than anticipated.

My current energy supplier is Flogas, and I will be out of contract soon, so I have started shopping aound. I am getting PV Panels in the next few weeks.

Energia are offering what sounded like a good deal (23.99 per unit imported and 24c per unit exported).

I have a smart meter, but I do not have a smart tariff i.e. I am still on a standard plan....Energia have told me that because of this, they would not be able to pay me for my exact KW export and they would only be able to pay me for what is the average export for my local area.

Is this correct ? Only those on smart plans get paid for their actual KW export, and anyone else just gets paid a deemed export ?

Thanks a lot for the reply.

Just to clarify - I do not yet have PV Panels installed, they will be installed in the next month or so. Thus I do not currently have any export to the grid.

I do have a smart meter, but I do not have a smart tariff. My PV panel installer has submitted the NC6 form on my behalf, which has been processed/accepted by ESB Networks.

Apologies in advance for the basic question, when you say measured export you mean that you are getting paid for the exact KW amount you export as opposed to any average, or deemed, KW amount ?

Hi, Energia EV plan has a 2-6am window @ 0.075 cent per Kw, if you have battery its a great deal, we went live just on two weeks ago, switched to Energia from Electric Ireland took couple of weeks to switch (still waiting for the gas to move over) but we are already being paid for export. Have also set the inverter up to dump any excess left in batteries after 10.30pm back to the grid before topping up on the cheap rate, even though the day/rest of night rate is 0.33cent per Kw you'll only be buying at this rate in small amounts as the PV and batteries should take care of most of the house load.

Hi, does anybody know or ever asked if you can just transfer any credit from electric to your gas bill if you are dual, I know some suppliers in affect give you two seperate accounts and others only one with both on?

Just go pinergy, they credit the money to your bank account and use it for whatever you want 😀

AFAIK if you switch they have to refund you any credit on the account but be sure the maths add up with the new supplier and it doesn't cost more down the line with the new tariff and standing charge. Threaten to switch and see where it goes maybe. Ask to speak to a supervisor though.

Yeah I'm with Pinergy too and same story with me. Had built up a load of credit and asked for it to be refunded. They guy on the phone tried to talk me out of it for a while but when I insisted he said it would take 21 days and they'd have to keep a balance of 200 euro minimum in my account. Money came 21 days later and looks like they kept around 200 euro. Will know exactly how much when the bill lands in the next few days.

Im not too worried though. I'll just call every few months I'd say to request payment and the 200 euro will then hopefully be enough to get me through the winter.

I only made €103, had a terrible May.

I have same, with a 5kwh battery and eddi. The approach I take is I use the 2am to 6ak window to charge the battery, heat the immersion, charge the car and run the dishwasher and washing machine all between those hours. It costs that 8c a kWh, but in effect it maximises my 24ckwh export the next day.

I am actually finding that the battery tends to last until about 1am now, meaning I'm only on the standard rate for ak hour a day

Last 2 months bill this time last year €210, this year €120 in credit with 4.4 SW 3.08 NE. 5KW battery.