Solar PV export tariff

Pippa757

Has anyone out there looked into or challenged their PV account with regard to the amount paid for exporting surplus energy? I am currently getting paid approximately 4p/KW, but paying around 6 times the amount for electricity bought off the grid!

Krakkkers

You would have to challenge the contract you signed.

QrizB

There is another live thread on exactly this topic:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6386008/existing-solar-owners-group

Or you could spend £3k on a home storage battery and use it yourself instead of exporting it?

wwally

Pippa757 said:

Has anyone out there looked into or challenged their PV account with regard to the amount paid for exporting surplus energy? I am currently getting paid approximately 4p/KW, but paying around 6 times the amount for electricity bought off the grid!

But you are additionally being paid a lot more to generate it in the first place (24p in my case). And if you use it rather than export it, it is completely paid usage.

chris_n

wwally said:

Pippa757 said:

Has anyone out there looked into or challenged their PV account with regard to the amount paid for exporting surplus energy? I am currently getting paid approximately 4p/KW, but paying around 6 times the amount for electricity bought off the grid!

But you are additionally being paid a lot more to generate it in the first place (24p in my case). And if you use it rather than export it, it is completely paid usage.

Systems installed now don't get the FIT payment you (or I) do.

[Deleted User]

There is an argument that export prices under the SEG scheme need to be reviewed. At the moment, Ofgem allows ‘suppliers’ to set their own SEG rates which vary from very little to 30 minute pricing (Octopus Agile Outgoing).

It suits the suppliers to keep these prices low.

I have suggested to the Competition and Markets Authority that whilst direct collusion is deemed to be anti-competitive then the same argument can be applied to tacit collusion. It follows, in my view,  that there needs to be a CMA competition inquiry into the SEG scheme.

I would urge those on SEG only payments to make a similar approach to the CMA.  The contact email is on the CMA website.

The FIT Scheme is different in that it is a contract between the generator and the Government administered by some suppliers. The rates of the annual increase is set out in the original contract.