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The whole idea of the scheme was to kick off an industry. It has unfortunately back fired, mostly because of mismanagement by civil servants.
The whole idea of the scheme was to kick off an industry. It has unfortunately back fired, mostly because of mismanagement by civil servants.
I have at the begining of Dec signed a contract for my turbine with Limejump on a variable tariff ,but it is too soon to tell how it is performing.These people seem like quite a dynamic team of smart operators but only time will tell.
You are free to sell export to one and claim FIT from another.
The FIT rate is fixed ( but index linked ) so leave it where it is.
However one word of warning, it is up to the meter provider to supply readings to your designated . You may find some providers are very slow in organising, what is a simple job. This can lead to,loss of exports
I'm not really up to speed with the process of selling my export so signed up with my FIT provider(EON) at the time of installation.As far as i can tell this,too,is indexed linked and so increases each year.Would this be the norm with all the major providers ?
My price off lime jump for variable rate has been 6.9ppkw for dec and 6.5ppkw for nov and oct, seem a good company to deal with, this is for chp so might be a bit better than solar?
My price off lime jump for variable rate has been 6.9ppkw for dec and 6.5ppkw for nov and oct, seem a good company to deal with, this is for chp so might be a bit better than solar?
There are others who can tell you more succinctly than me,but my understanding is your pv panels produce electricity which you are paid for .The electricity produced during the day can be used by you ,in your house, but you are still paid for it through your fit meter reading,so if the kettle is producing 2 kw,the pv panels are doing 5 kw you still get paid for the 5 kw and your electricity meter will not have moved as you still have 3 kw spare.Im not very good at explaining things,im afraid, but hope you undersrand.Can I jump in with a rather naive query? We have PV panels on house and our FIT and domestic supply accounts are both with eon. They are very good with FIT payments but my direct debit for domestic supply has just been trebled as we have used far more electricity than they thought we would. OK the original was fairly low and I was sceptical but I was led to believe that as well as FIT payments for the electricity you generate, you also get discounted supplied electricity 'because you are generating it' as one website put it. I can see no evidence of this in my supply account, so am I not getting what I should or is this all covered in the various bits of the FIT account?
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Can I jump in with a rather naive query? We have PV panels on house and our FIT and domestic supply accounts are both with eon. They are very good with FIT payments but my direct debit for domestic supply has just been trebled as we have used far more electricity than they thought we would. OK the original was fairly low and I was sceptical but I was led to believe that as well as FIT payments for the electricity you generate, you also get discounted supplied electricity 'because you are generating it' as one website put it. I can see no evidence of this in my supply account, so am I not getting what I should or is this all covered in the various bits of the FIT account?
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discounted supplied electricity
Thankfully we didn't make the investment, we inherited the panels and contract when we bought the house. I have no experience of PV so am a complete novice, but I get the sense that our domestic supply should automatically use power from the PV when the sun's shining then use the grid to top up at other times. If that's the case we are automatically getting some of our power for free and the high cost of the remaining demand is something we'll have to live with.Sadly you are one of the gullible fools who have fallen for the salemen' s lies. There is absolutely no way that a discounted supply was part of the deal. In fact the energy companies hate solar as it supplies power at the time when they least need it , ie. summer midday