Receiving FIT payments - can I change provider?

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twincabs

Apologies if this question is in the wrong place - I've had a look through the forums and don't seem to be able to find a better place for it. 

I had solar panels fitted in 2012 to take advantage of the government scheme, and have been receiving the FiT payments since then. 
Am I now able to sign up to an energy tariff with another provider that also pays me an amount per unit that I feed back to the grid without compromising the government payments I'm already receiving?
I've also asked Octopus this question (it's their tariff that I'm looking to move to), but not heard anything back as yet - just wanted to get a second opinion.......

QrizB

twincabs said:

I had solar panels fitted in 2012 to take advantage of the government scheme, and have been receiving the FiT payments since then. 
Am I now able to sign up to an energy tariff with another provider that also pays me an amount per unit that I feed back to the grid without compromising the government payments I'm already receiving?

Yes.

You are probably on "deemed export" at present, as old electricity meters didn't include an export register. Smate meters includie an export register. You can switch from deemed export to metered export, and then move from your FIT export tariff (around 5p/kWh) to a different one.

You will retain the FIT generation payment (around 70p/kWh).

KevinG

QrizB said:

twincabs said:

I had solar panels fitted in 2012 to take advantage of the government scheme, and have been receiving the FiT payments since then. 
Am I now able to sign up to an energy tariff with another provider that also pays me an amount per unit that I feed back to the grid without compromising the government payments I'm already receiving?

Yes.

You are probably on "deemed export" at present, as old electricity meters didn't include an export register. Smate meters includie an export register. You can switch from deemed export to metered export, and then move from your FIT export tariff (around 5p/kWh) to a different one.

You will retain the FIT generation payment (around 70p/kWh).

That's what I did, except my deemed export payments were already with Octopus, I just switched to the 15p/kWh fixed metered rate. Octopus customer service was a little confused at first as to whether this was possible whilst retaining the generous FiT payments, but I got there in the end.