Payment for Export prior to SEG

iheoahaheh

If your DNO provider delays the issue of the certificate required for the SEG application and you then have to wait for a SEG agreement to be setup with a provider why arent you entitled to receive reimbursement of any energy that has been exported to the grid in the interim period.  Someone is benefiting from your generated energy exported to the Grid.  Hardly seems fair.

MattMattMattUK

iheoahaheh said:

If your DNO provider delays the issue of the certificate required for the SEG application and you then have to wait for a SEG agreement to be setup with a provider why arent you entitled to receive reimbursement of any energy that has been exported to the grid in the interim period.  

The scheme requires full certification before you are paid, that is enshrined in legislation, that is the reason you are not paid.

iheoahaheh said:

Someone is benefiting from your generated energy exported to the Grid.  Hardly seems fair.

In theory the taxpayer benefits ever so slightly, but your exports are so low as a percentage of the electricity in the grid they would not even show as a balancing error in the network so in reality there is no benefit to everyone. Life is not fair, fairness is subjective, what you perceive as fair is irrelevant, the legislation is the important part. 
 

iheoahaheh

I very much doubt the tax payer benefits, there is no threshold to the profits these companies make, this would just be profit for for the DNO or the supplier, the point is that there is no reason for the delayed issue of the paperwork and the relatively small amounts of energy (if considered at a national level), adds up.  If all applications are delayed by 3-4 months cumulatively it is no longer a small amount.

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iheoahaheh said:

I very much doubt the tax payer benefits, there is no threshold to the profits these companies make, this would just be profit for for the DNO or the supplier.

There is an absolute and specific limit to the profit your energy supplier or your DNO makes.

iheoahaheh said:

the point is that there is no reason for the delayed issue of the paperwork 

Dealing with your paperwork is a niche and barely used function of the DNO.  Either they have to fit it in around all the other tasks, which is slow, or they need a dedicated team that is barely doing any work most of the time, which is expensive (and we would end up paying for).

iheoahaheh said:

 and the relatively small amounts of energy (if considered at a national level), adds up.  If all applications are delayed by 3-4 months cumulatively it is no longer a small amount.

It is a trivial amount "if considered at a national level".  The only person to which it is an important amount is you.  To the system, it is noise.

Don't fall for the usual fallacy of "if I multiply this thing by a big number, it becomes big and is therefore important".

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Welcome to the Club. Some DNOs can be annoyingly slow but the system is what it is.