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Pat38493 said:

Netexporter said:

Pat38493 said:

Not directly related, but I heard a news article today about situations where the company installing the devices lost their accreditation in between the customer signing the contract, and the equipment being installed - this resulted in being unable to export to the grid as the installer was not certified.

I assume that generally you can rig the system up in a way that all the energy you generate or have in your battery, is used by your own house, and only any excess is sent back to the grid?

I think the days of MCS may be numbered, now that Octopus have broken ranks and will offer you a SEG without MCS certification, especially if other suppliers follow suit. The work still has to be done to one of two industry standards and be covered by other industry standards bodies.

MCS was a good idea, in principal, but it hasn't stopped poor quality installations entirely. As for their "find an installer" database. It is woeful.

Interesting because the guy that they interviewed was claiming that it was Octopus he wanted to export by and they wouldn't accept it because of the missing MCS.  Maybe something changed very recently?

Yes, I was shouting at the wireless that he didn't need MCS. They did, sort of, cover it, but in the usual muddled way of non-specialist journalists.

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Pat38493 said:

Netexporter said:

Pat38493 said:

Not directly related, but I heard a news article today about situations where the company installing the devices lost their accreditation in between the customer signing the contract, and the equipment being installed - this resulted in being unable to export to the grid as the installer was not certified.

I assume that generally you can rig the system up in a way that all the energy you generate or have in your battery, is used by your own house, and only any excess is sent back to the grid?

I think the days of MCS may be numbered, now that Octopus have broken ranks and will offer you a SEG without MCS certification, especially if other suppliers follow suit. The work still has to be done to one of two industry standards and be covered by other industry standards bodies.

MCS was a good idea, in principal, but it hasn't stopped poor quality installations entirely. As for their "find an installer" database. It is woeful.

Interesting because the guy that they interviewed was claiming that it was Octopus he wanted to export by and they wouldn't accept it because of the missing MCS.  Maybe something changed very recently?

Suppliers, under SEG rules, are allowed to use different accreditation bodies other than MCS.