Microgeneration - Get paid for making Electricity
Have you Solar Panels on your roof? Or a mini wind turbine in your garden?
Talk to us about Pinergy MicroGen
If you have Solar Panels on your roof or even a wind turbine in your garden, then you should be talking to us.
With Pinergy MicroGen we will be rewarding our customers who sign up to the plan with a 25c (ex VAT) payment per kWh exported that they sell back to us during 2023.
This is clean renewable electricity you are probably not using today and you can give back to the Electricity Grid for others to use.
Payments are generally made every month and will appear on your App or Bill as a credit to your account.
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:
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 |
Pricing on MicroGen is reviewed as part of the overall pricing on both the Supply of Electricity and the MicroGen payments for customers who export their excess electricity.
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