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Solar energy - Feed-in Tariff payment delays - your experiences?
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Telephoned E.ON with meter reading on Friday 11th October. Money in my bank account on Thursday 17th October.
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Scottish Power paid today, 22 days after on-line submission, exactly the same as last quarter.2kWp Solar PV - 10*200W Kioto, SMA Sunny Boy 2000HF, SSE facing, some shading in winter, 37° pitch, installed Jun-2011, inverter replaced Sep-2017 AND Feb-2022.0
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Scottish Power paid today, 22 days after on-line submission, exactly the same as last quarter.
Thanks Kevin,
Let's hope that means they've sorted out all the problems they had processing payments recently.
But I think I'll still postpone my reading due Nov15th till just before end of month.NE Derbyshire.4kWp S Facing 17.5deg slope (dormer roof).24kWh of Pylontech batteries with Lux controller BEV : Hyundai Ioniq50 -
Latest payment (cheque) just received from British Gas.
Reading submitted evening of 16th Oct. Cheque arrived in post today (23rd).
4 working days seems very reasonable.Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.0 -
It seems quite incredible for a system that entails printing a cheque, sticking it in an envelope, posting it and waiting for Royal Mail to deliver it! Perhaps those that handle the payments electronically could learn a thing or two.4 working days seems very reasonable.2kWp Solar PV - 10*200W Kioto, SMA Sunny Boy 2000HF, SSE facing, some shading in winter, 37° pitch, installed Jun-2011, inverter replaced Sep-2017 AND Feb-2022.0 -
Latest payment (cheque) just received from British Gas.
Reading submitted evening of 16th Oct. Cheque arrived in post today (23rd).
4 working days seems very reasonable.
Very reasonable but then you have to add on the time it takes you to pay the cheque into your bank account and then wait for it to be cleared. Seems an archaic system to me when BACS and faster payments are both available.0 -
It seems quite incredible for a system that entails printing a cheque, sticking it in an envelope, posting it and waiting for Royal Mail to deliver it! Perhaps those that handle the payments electronically could learn a thing or two.
Very true. I would much prefer to have payment by BACS but if that means changing to a provider that takes 28 days to pay I'd prefer to stick with a cheque.The_Green_Hornet wrote: »Very reasonable but then you have to add on the time it takes you to pay the cheque into your bank account and then wait for it to be cleared. Seems an archaic system to me when BACS and faster payments are both available.
If I pay in today it will be credited to my account tomorrow. I don't care about the clearing bit as interest pays from date in account. So even with paying in to bank it is still only 9 calendar days (7 working days) from submitting the reading till money in my bank.Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.0 -
If I pay in today it will be credited to my account tomorrow. I don't care about the clearing bit as interest pays from date in account. So even with paying in to bank it is still only 9 calendar days (7 working days) from submitting the reading till money in my bank.
I think cheques paid into the account I use for the purpose (RBS) become visible the same day. However, I still have to go well out of my way to visit the town centre to make the deposit. But even allowing another week for that, it's still a lot faster than the 30+ days Scottish Power have taken to make my last two payments.NE Derbyshire.4kWp S Facing 17.5deg slope (dormer roof).24kWh of Pylontech batteries with Lux controller BEV : Hyundai Ioniq50 -
My FITs provider used to pay within a week when I was with them and it was paid by BACS, now unfortunately I've swapped energy provider(twice now) they only pay by cheque.
Last one took nearly 6 weeks to arrive and i'm not expecting the latest payment to be any quicker as i'm receiving 46.8p on one of my systems that should only be paying 16.5p, the difference that has to be made up by them for their c*ck up. Guess they're making me wait for it....oh well....grin and bear it I suppose;)2 kWp SEbE , 2kWp SSW & 2.5kWp NWbW.....in sunny North Derbyshire17.7kWh Givenergy battery added(for the power hungry kids)0 -
My FITs provider used to pay within a week when I was with them and it was paid by BACS, now unfortunately I've swapped energy provider(twice now) they only pay by cheque.
I've moved my account for imported electricity away from Scottish Power (twice now) but left them with the FIT account.
They are still paying me by BACS - albeit much slower than was their norm. Hard to believe they'd be so petty as to 'punish my disloyalty by slowing down payments deliberately though. And actually it's even harder to believe they have enough control over their accounting systems to realise the situation exists
NE Derbyshire.4kWp S Facing 17.5deg slope (dormer roof).24kWh of Pylontech batteries with Lux controller BEV : Hyundai Ioniq50
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