PV Feed In Tariff

Ive been using one on a granny charger at night for 12 years. Have them on electric heaters in the house too.

we have been on pinergy since last October. Ive 13.6kw usable battery and the 3 hour window can get me to about 10.6 nightly (inverter limit). Its only an issue for December & Jan but some days I ran out of battery and used some import at peak tariff. I'm tempted to move to energia for this winter. That way I'll get the 4 hours to fill the battery. Hate seeing the empty capacity in the battery on those mornings. I was hoping I'd get enough solar to cover the 'gap' but on fair few days just doesnt cut it. I've 7.1kwp south east/ north west split 4/3

We added a pumped shower beside our electric shower and its so much nicer. We only have a 120 litre tank which can cover max maybe 2 7 or 8 minute showers. We heat it from electricity over night and then I've automation running in home assistant which boosts the tank from the gas for 30 minutes based on the temp of the water in the middle of the tank. Running that for a few months now and no complaints. Ideally would have a much larger tank and use the night rate electric to heat it but the gas boosting is maybe once or twice a day max so its not to bad. I did up the numbers comparing pinergy to energia in my case for a December day and charging the EV for the night windows. Pinergy came in at 4.67 for the day versus Energia at 3.62. Including standing charge differences. That was only charging the car at 3 hours to compare (4 hours window would be nicer but I dont really need it for the car). Energia comes in cheaper due to being able to charge the house battery fully so would need less import.

Its really hard to know but once i get to February im importing very little outside of pinergy night tariff and exporting lots - at .25 cents for as long as that rate lasts. Possibly I'd still be better off with energia though as I could charge the battery fully and export quicker at .21 cents. Either way I'm not losing much. Ive automation running each night which checks the battery SOC and dumps it for an hour at midnight if the solar forecast for the next day 10kw and the battery SOC is more than 40%.. not a fortune but maybe 20 euro a month in export. Most summer days pinergy is costing me about 70 cents in electricity and i could be exporting 5 to 8 euro worth depending on the weather.

If my invertor could charge the batteries just that bit fast I'd be sticking with pinergy for sure. Im tied to batteries though so can't just swap it out easily

re the triton shower - have you tried turning down to the 'mid' setting for the summer months at least? It should use about 5kwh then.. we used to run ours all year around like that.. it does impact pressure though

Any of you know, do installers upload the NC6 on your behalf to a portal? Our installer said they uploaded it 4 months ago, ESB said they haven't received it. So, I'm back and forth trying to find out who hasn't done their job...

Installer emailed it to "Network Services Bureau" and I was cc'ed on that email. I then received an automated email from ESBn a couple of weeks later to confirm receipt.

Cheers, that's useful. I might just go with Energia until I am properly setup with 2 batteries and I can charge both batteries in 3 hours. I need my MIC to be upgraded to 12kVa before I can do this and I don't know when ESB will get around to doing this for me.

It's been a brutal 2 days for the solar. My battery was at 92% when I was leaving at 7:30 this morning. It's at 38% now after 8 hours. It should last the rest of the day with little bits of solar topping it up, but has made me lean toward a safer option. I might have gone with BG, because the rest of their night rate is not overly punitive, but their standing charge is €90 more and they only pay FIT every 6 months.

Does it switch over immediately?

Yes, was wondering as it took EI about 5 weeks to put me on a smart plan.🙈

Up to 2 months if the smart meter was just installed, they need at least 30 days of data or some nonsense like that