Fit payments uniform everywhere...?

Ciprico

I've had solar panels for about 12 years and always been with Eon and everything has always run smoothly

During that time we changed our gas/electric supplier several times to avoid being milked as a loyal customer...

I had never considered changing FIT provider - is there a need to or do they all simply honour the original agreement  stipulated 
by the contract at time of install...?

TIA

paul991

its the same whoever you are with ,if you get good service there is no point changing,Im with octopus and they pay sameday

Reed_Richards

The Feed-in Tariff has two components, a payment for generation and a payment for export.  All providers pay the same for generation but there can be differences in the export payment. 

Hitherto you will have been paid for deemed export on the basis that you are deemed to export half of what you generate.  Deemed export payments are the same from all companies.  But recently, one or two suppliers have started to insist that customers with a smart meter capable of measuring export are paid for their actual rather than their deemed export. 

Also, if you have a smart meter capable of measuring export, it is possible to move voluntarily to a company and tariff that pays a greater rate for your actual exported electricity that the rate you are paid for your deemed export.  Octopus, on the right tariff, is one such company.  This may or may not make you more money, depending on what proportion of the electricity you generate really is exported.        

Exiled_Tyke

To add.   If your import (supplier) and export  (FIT) are currently with different companies then there's a good chance that your FIT company will not know whether you have a smart meter or not and so are less likley to attempt to insisit that you go onto actual export payments.   If you think you are doing better on deemed export then the conclusion would be not the change FIT provider and also not to change your supplier to the company that pays your FIT.