Microgeneration - Get paid for making electricity

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: 

• 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)

• 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)

Pricing on MicroGen is reviewed as part of the overall pricing on both the Supply of Electricity and the MicroGen payments for customers who are selling electricity back to the grid in Ireland.