Cheap Energy Club - Please incorporate export tariff info

akwexavante

The Cheap Energy Club is excellent, but when you are also exporting it's also a pain.

Knowing a supplier's export tariff is a substantial part of finding out if switching is worthwhile.

What appears to be a good deal and their fore worthwhile switching is scuppered when you find out they don't offer an export tariff, and finding out often involves a phone call.

It would be great if the process of finding out if it's worthwhile switching included an option whereby you are asked how much energy you export a year and include this in the calcs.

Robin9

One of forum members provided this when I was enquiring about SEG

https://www.sunsave.energy/solar-panels-advice/exporting-to-the-grid/best-seg-rates


I may be wrong but I don't think you need to have the same supplier for import and export

akwexavante

Thank you for the link.

Robin9 said:

I may be wrong but I don't think you need to have the same supplier for import and export

You are of course absolutely correct, however you always get a considerably higher export tariff from the supplier that you also import from.

Being with octopus for import and export, i get 15p per KWh for export.  If i change supplier for import only, i will no longer get 15p KWh from Octopus for the exported energy. It'll drop to i think it is 4p KWh (This may have changed ever so slightly since i last looked, but it'll have changed no more than a penny at best i think).

The lost income on export is substantial (15p KWh down to just 4p) this is significant.  Making switching not worthwhile.

It is my current experience that no supplier will give you a good export tariff unless you are also importing from them too.

Having looked at the link, i can see that two companies offer a fairly good export tariff, and you don't have to be with them for import. Scottish Power and OVO.

I'll have to look at the figures for switching import to another company (Home Energy or Outfox the Market) and export to Scottish Power.  See how it works out.

I would like to think that the MSE team may at some point consider adding export as part of the service.  Working out the best deal for us.  Keeping export and import together, or split it between two different companies.

Robin9

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You are of course absolutely correct, however you always get a considerably higher export tariff from the supplier that you also import from..................

Not at all sure about this.   

I don't think all companies offer an Export tariff.

akwexavante

Robin9 said:

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You are of course absolutely correct, however you always get a considerably higher export tariff from the supplier that you also import from..................

Not at all sure about this.   

I don't think all companies offer an Export tariff.

You are of course absolutely correct, this is what makes switching for those of us that export a nightmare.

Some do, some don't. Some only offer export to those that import, and others offer a very good export for those that import from them and a very poor export to those that don't import from them.

This makes switching all the more frustrating and complex for those that export.

I would like to think that energy companies may be forced to offer everybody an export tariff without exception and fix it at say 50% minimum of the import tariff.  This would give some safety in switching for those that export.

Dogbyte009

Suppliers only have to offer an export tariff if they have more than 150,000 customers. That's why some of the smaller companies don't.