Solar energy - Feed-in Tariff payment delays - your experiences?

battelaxe wrote: »

Yes, you are absolutely right. However another poor mug has told me that they have discovered the following



So the Royal Mail are telling porkies. One of my co-mugs is still pursuing Royal Mail, and has a fully loaded solicitor. I wish him luck for all of us, but I am still pursuing the option that OFGEM have introduced the concept of the acceptability of late applications. Let's hope that one of us wins before my blood pressure gives me a heart attack or stroke.

Once upon a time, not that long ago - I found myself "between jobs" - so rather than engage in that pointless task of "signing on", I became a self employed "hire car and/or courier driver". Fairly regular work would be trying to pick up the pieces for a well known package/parcel company (No it was not Royal Mail).

For a price the punter using such companies can opt for an enhanced service of by 10:00 by Noon or Next Day.
By the time I got called in it was probably too late to achieve anything but Next Day.
Obviously this was a 5/95 situation - I would get the difficult jobs that had been overlooked, put on the wrong in house van, or were for a farm at the back of beyond.
I did not get one of those "tablet" things for a signature that knows where you are, what time it is (and what I had for breakfast?).
I might have stolen it and anyway the parcel company would have had to pay for my delivering it back to them - I was ace at getting a scribble from some bored receptionist and leaving the time blank;).

I also had to deal with phone calls from parcel head office like:

"This is an emergency for consignment aaa-xxxx. They want it urgently".

"The time is now 15:30 and I am in the Intergalactic Science Park (posh name for a new factory estate) with 10 deliveries still to make including 4 "before noons". So you tell me which of these you don't want delivered and I will break off and make a 2 hour diversion to the back of beyond? While you are making that decision ask "back of beyond" what time they shut for the day and /or suggest an alternative late delivery address".

You probably would not be amazed at how many urgent deliveries are no longer urgent, when the recipient is risking getting home to a cold supper.

I particularly remember an occasion that unravelled:

"Here is the urgent packet "(self evidently documents of some sort).

"It is a "before 10:00" and that address is in the next county. If I get a move on it should be there before noon."

"Before you go we have some other packages for out there in the loading bay"

By the time I had finished faffing about with the loading bay staff another 20 minutes had gone by.

The delivery address turned out to be a town centre council office (plenty of named parking for self important staff but double yellow lines for front door deliveries).

"We don't sign for anything (Like HMRC) but you can stamp your paperwork with the machine on the end of the counter"

Oh dear it was a tender, with a noon deadline, and the machine printed 12:15.

edwink wrote: »

Hello Jackie

Thanks for that information. I am due to ring in my first meter reading today. I will also check that I am on the new system.

Lets see if they have got their act together. Can't wait!!!!

Edwink

UPDATE regarding our meter reading to eon

Just phoned Eon to give meter reading and to see if we are on the new system. They confirmed that we are. So far so good.

Next gave meter reading, which they accepted and was told we will get our payment within 7 to 10 days. I said "so that will go straight into our bank account". The Eon represenitive said "we do not seem to have your bank account details, I am sure it would have been on your application though, so I could find it and add the missing details to your account. So I offered her our bank details again as I did not want it to hold up our long awaited first payment. So I gave her the details there and then. She then said because they did not have our bank details on our account our first payment will be made within 10-15 working days.

As we had the pvs installed in Feb and have not had to give a meter reading until today. I totally forgot to give 2 readings, one being upto 31st March and the other for up till now. I actually remembered whilst I was talking to her on the phone. I said that I should of given her 2 readings. She said the reading up to 31st March would be estimated as she could not now enter another reading. But, if I wanted to give the correct reading up to March 31st over the phone there and then they would have to close our account down and set it up all over again. I promptly said NO THANK YOU, I would rather have it estimated. But I asked her to put a note on our account of the 31st March reading anyway, which she did.

So anyone who is with Eon please check that they have your bank details on your account when giving your first meter reading.

Will keep you updated as to when we receive our first payment.

Ed

Martyn1981 wrote: »

Hiya Ed, just a thought - as your system was underperforming originally, when you had the 10 panels in one string, I wonder if they'll apply too many units to pre April?

Imagine your system had generated nothing at the beginning, Eon would still assume generation was spread evenly performance wise (obviously they'd take differing solar levels in to account, but assume your system was performing at the same efficiency throughout).

See what they come out with. EDF over estimated our generation for pre April, but it really didn't work out as much money, less than a pound if I recall, since the 4.8% inflation is only ..... well .... 4.8%!

Mart.

Hello Mart

I am sure there will be only a few pence in it. We will just have to wait and see.

Will keep you posted. Thanks

Ed

Hence the common law that says it is the date of the post mark that counts!