Existing Solar owners group

paulfelce

Hi all,
 Does anyone know if there is a group for solar panel owners? It feels like we should be paid more for our generation right now. I'm sure if we clubbed together to switch we could get better rates. A bit like the mse groups for switching consumption. 

Alnat1

Is that FIT where you've had the benefit of decent rates for years while energy prices were low, or SEG and you're with a low paying company?

Merlin139

So you are getting paid £0.6023 per kWh FIT, plus £0.0425 export rate on 50% of your production and you feel you should be paid more? In addition it will be paid for another 14 years and go up each year by the RPI rate in December of the previous year.

Why do you feel you should be paid more?

Petriix

What's stopping you from signing up for Octopus Outgoing Agile? 

QrizB

I'm going to repeat what everyone else has already said, but in different words.

• If you have a feed-in tariff (FIT), you are paid for generation and for export (usually deemed export, where you're paid for exporting 50% of what you generate whether you do so or not) at rates that you agreed with Ofgem for a period of 20 or 25 years. You are welcome to try and renegotiate this with Ofgem but I don't think you will get very far. You do however have the option of opting out of the export payment (keeping the generation payment) and arranging a SEG contract instead as described in the next bullet.
  
• If your system doesn't qualify for FIT, you will be elegible for the smart export guarantee (SEG). Every large supplier is oblied by Ofgem to offer an import tariff to their customers. Some small suppliers also offer SEG, and some suppliers offer their SEG even if you aren't a customer. SEG pays you for your metered export, which generally means having a smart meter.

The best of the current export tariffs are with Octopus. So long as you are their energy customer and aren't on certain of their smart EV tariffs they offer an "Outgoing Fixed" flat rate of 7.5p/kWh or a variable "Outgoing Agile" which varies through out the day, and from day to day, but has tyypically been above 20p/kWh in recent months.