Good Energy deal?

sevenhills

Sign up to Solar Savings to earn 15p per kWh for the electricity you export. For the average home that exports 50% of the power it generates, that amounts to £213. That's over £100 more than the same home would get on the best-paying FIT export rate*.

I am skeptical of any offer that implies a win-win situation.

For some strange reason, I got a payment of £13 and a payment of £98, Thursday and Friday last week.

A payment of £98.69 will be credited directly into your bank account. This is based on a total generation during the above period of 557 kWh and a deemed export of 167 kW

Your next smart export payment will be paid to you within 5 working days. This is for the electricity you exported to the grid. You will receive a separate remittance for the total electricity you generated.

A payment of £13.02 will be credited directly to your bank account. This is based on exporting a total of 191.8 kWh

https://www.goodenergy.co.uk/solar-savings-fit-switch/?utm_source=acquisition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=solar_savings_campaign&utm_content=fit_not_on_supply4

Netexporter

You could get £4/kWh in the last two saving sessions. Other tariffs pay more than 15p for peak-time exports.

QrizB

sevenhills said:

Sign up to Solar Savings to earn 15p per kWh for the electricity you export. For the average home that exports 50% of the power it generates, that amounts to £213. That's over £100 more than the same home would get on the best-paying FIT export rate*.

I am skeptical of any offer that implies a win-win situation.

There are plenty of other forum users who have signed up to export tariffs and get paid 15p/kWh for export.

What makes you so skeptical of Good Energy's offer?

I would add that the average home probably exports more than 50% of their generation. Only those with diverters and/or batteries are likely to export less.

sevenhills

QrizB said:

There are plenty of other forum users who have signed up to export tariffs and get paid 15p/kWh for export.

What makes you so skeptical of Good Energy's offer?

I would add that the average home probably exports more than 50% of their generation. Only those with diverters and/or batteries are likely to export less.

I have two family members staying with me and they are often home during the day.

I am also confused by my two recent payments, since I haven't signed up to anything.

Netexporter

Have you looked at you account details? That might shed some light. You can go from deemed export to SEG, which is advantageous in some cases.

For some reason I thought you had batteries in addition to solar, so ignore my comment about peak-time exports, if it is just solar. 15p is about as good as you'll get for non-timed export.

QrizB

sevenhills said:

QrizB said:

There are plenty of other forum users who have signed up to export tariffs and get paid 15p/kWh for export.

What makes you so skeptical of Good Energy's offer?

I would add that the average home probably exports more than 50% of their generation. Only those with diverters and/or batteries are likely to export less.

I have two family members staying with me and they are often home during the day.

Do you have a smart meter? If so, it will have an export register. You can read this and tell how much electricity you have exported since it was installed.

Compare this number to the amount of solar electricity you have generated over the same period.

Then work out what 50% deemed export gas earned you, vs. what metered export would have paid.