FIT rate increase in 2023

legoman62

Rang E.ON, and after several phone calls I finally got through to the right dept.
Gave the lady my actual FIT read for April 1 and she has amended the payment.
Probably amounts to an extra £10.... better in my pocket than theirs!

frugalfran

Hats off to Eonnext, emails replied to and figures recalculated, as Legoman says, better in my pocket than theirs, just wondering why their website is so lacking in ability to deal with the tariff chsnge.  They force me, (everyone??) To submit on 01 june.  When it was just Eon we used to submit quarterly based on an April 01 date, far easier.  But they did reply and did amend quickly. 

pete-20-11

British Gas will accept a reading every 83 days or greater. Guess I could try to spread that out a little to hit close to April. Eventually 😄

gefnew

I just put my fit readings to British gas  31/03 every year from 2011 no problems with them just submit online with the linked email they send you.

Exiled_Tyke

legoman62 said:

Rang E.ON, and after several phone calls I finally got through to the right dept.
Gave the lady my actual FIT read for April 1 and she has amended the payment.
Probably amounts to an extra £10.... better in my pocket than theirs!

I too received a quick response when I contacted them about this. I did it by email.  But I'm not impressed. The estimate for March was double the actual. They always estimate in their favour and if they do it to everyone and most ignore it they are denying us PVers a huge sum of money in total.  It should not be difficult to get the algorthim more accurate than this. Or better still ask for readings on the 31 March like they used to.

QrizB

Exiled_Tyke said:

.They always estimate in their favour ...

Not wishing to defend EON specifically, but it's not "in their favour". They are just the conduit for money from Ofgem.

I suspect (but haven't gone looking for evidence) that Often tell them to pro-rata generation before and after the change of tariff unless they have a reading.

Would that match the estimates?

Exiled_Tyke

QrizB said:

Exiled_Tyke said:

.They always estimate in their favour ...

Not wishing to defend EON specifically, but it's not "in their favour". They are just the conduit for money from Ofgem.

I suspect (but haven't gone looking for evidence) that Often tell them to pro-rata generation before and after the change of tariff unless they have a reading.

Would that match the estimates?

OK.  I appreciate that but it was quicker than saying  'not in our favour'.  Haven't checked the pro-rata but will do later. If that is the case then Ofgem have got it very very wrong themselves.  And I really don't understand why E.On changed the dates to  1st March and 1st June when they went to Eon Next.  They could have made it so much simpler for everyone (themselves included)

QrizB

Exiled_Tyke said:

QrizB said:

Exiled_Tyke said:

.They always estimate in their favour ...

Not wishing to defend EON specifically, but it's not "in their favour". They are just the conduit for money from Ofgem.

I suspect (but haven't gone looking for evidence) that Often tell them to pro-rata generation before and after the change of tariff unless they have a reading.

Would that match the estimates?

OK.  I appreciate that but it was quicker than saying  'not in our favour'.  Haven't checked the pro-rata but will do later. If that is the case then Ofgem have got it very very wrong themselves.  And I really don't understand why E.On changed the dates to  1st March and 1st June when they went to Eon Next.  They could have made it so much simpler for everyone (themselves included)

Before I was moved to E.ON Next, nPower were the same, at least for me; readings in March, June, September and December.

It isn't necessarily the 1st, though. You can submit any time until the 25th. From my E.ON Next account page:

Edit: I've looked at my June 2022 FIT statement and it looks like it is (or very close to) a level pro-rata. I generated ~900kWh for the period (of ~90 days) and they've allowed ~70kWh for the seven days in March.

Second edit: the end of March was pretty bright last year, so their estimated reading for the 1st of April is only ~1kWh different to my actual reading on that day

1961Nick

This is the first year that the rise in FIT - 10% - has been enough to make a significant difference.

In previous years my 'split' has been out by upto 100kWh but in monetary terms that's less than £1.

jackieblack

Entered my reading yesterday evening to EonNext and, as expected, the statement this morning shows an overestimation for 1st April figure - only 40 kWh, but still inaccurate. (I have calculated that it was a simple ‘pro-rataing’ of the increase since the last reading divided by the number of days.)

I have emailed them this morning, attaching a photo of the meter showing the reading taken after sunset on 31st March. Hopefully they’ll correct it as they have done for others.  Not so much for the money (it only works out £3.34 difference) but the principle, and if enough people complain maybe they’ll add the facility to enter an accurate rate change reading like we had before it changed from Eon to EonNext.