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Pinergy MicroGen Scheme

If you have Solar Panels on your roof or a wind turbine in your garden, then you should talk to us about microgeneration. This is clean renewable electricity you are probably not using today that you can feed to the electricity grid for others to use, while also earning residual income.

Depending on if you are a residential or commercial customer, we have different arrangements to suit you. Further information on this is provided in the FAQ section below.

Then the attached FAQ sections (Domestic, and then Commercial) could sit below this, with the three current “Contact” boxes (Micro-generating in Commercial Property, if you’re not micro-generating at home, and Want to talk to a Solar Energy Expert?) below the FAQ sections at the end of page.

FAQ’s for Commerical and Domestic Customers.

Are you eligible to get payments?

Micro-generating in Commercial Property

If you are micro-generating electricity across your commercial property portfolio, you could be paid for any electricity that you don’t use. For Pinergy, it’s a great way to reward our customers who have joined us on their energy transition journey.

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If you're not micro-generating at home

If you would like to join the energy transition and begin to micro-generate electricity at your property, why not consider the benefits of Solar PV.

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How often are payments made on Pinergy MicroGen?

How is a deemed export calculated?

Customers who do not have an ESB Networks Smart Meter will be paid by a “Deemed Export Quantity” which is an estimation.

This estimation is based on an ESB Networks formula, of exported electricity in kWh: it will be used as a proxy for metered export data,

The formula to calculate Deemed export quantity = MEC x Capacity Factor x Export Factor x Provision Interval.

Where:

MEC is a capacity value in units of kW, representing the generation capacity of the installed generation equipment, as declared via ESBN’s NC7 (or equivalent) form
Capacity Factor is the ratio of average electricity produced to the theoretical maximum possible if the installed capacity was generating at a maximum for a full year. CRU have proposed this value is set at 9.7% for all technology types. It is the average capacity factor of photovoltaic panels
Export Factor is the amount of electricity (expressed as a percentage of electricity produced) deemed to be exported, where the metered data is not available. CRU have set this value at 35%
Provision Interval is the number of hours in the period for which cumulative export quantities are to be calculated and to be made available to suppliers by ESBN

Example of a deemed calculation:

Sample calculation for Deemed Export Quantity

Example: Commercial customer with an MEC of 50 and where the “Provision Interval” is 12 months (= 8760 hours)

Parameter	Value	Comment
MEC (kW)	50	As recorded by ESBN
Capacity Factor	0.097	9.7% as decided by CRU
Export Factor	0.35	35% as decided by CRU
Provision interval	8760	12-month interval

Deemed Export Quantity = MEC x Capacity Factor x Export Factor x Provision Interval
Deemed Export Quantity = 14,870.1kWh (=50 X 0.097 x 0.35 x 8760)

How often is pricing reviewed on MicroGen payments?

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