Russell griffiths Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) Anybody know what the score is with a business exporting excess energy. What im thinking is this ?? we have two holiday lets, if I have a big pv bank for these are there any incentives to install it, feed in tariffs or anything. I know the domestic market has dried up but what about business use. .?? Edited May 31, 2020 by Russell griffiths Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishjohn Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Russell griffiths said: Anybody know what the score is with a business exporting excess energy. Are there any feed in tariffs at the moment, basically same as private how big a ssytem there are some companies that will do a deal on supplying a pv system if its big enough and if they can get supply contracts with very local users ,so then you could be getting a much bigger rate eg your rent them space and they pay you a yearly fee ,but would want a 20 year lease and they find local big users to buy it Edited May 31, 2020 by scottishjohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell griffiths Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 I’m thinking I can get about 35 panels up there. How much is that. As Manuel would say ‘ I know nuffin’ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishjohn Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 35 x300w ? 10.5kw not really commercial and will your DNO allow you to pump that much back in , not even enough to really run a house off grid even with batteries -- no money to made there why do you say commercial not really big enough for any commercial solar comapny to be interested in when I looked at the jetty the 30 acres was going to be 3 mw when i first looked they would do a PPA scheme where they paid me 25K a year for 20 years -then rate dropped and now only interested if i had big users very close ,so they could do a 10year deal to sell to them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell griffiths Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share Posted June 1, 2020 @scottishjohn I wasn’t really thinking of using any off it, holiday let’s have electricity meters in them so I’m not bothered how much they use, I was thinking of making a few quid a day by selling it back. Oh well another mad idea bites the dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishjohn Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 put your own meters in the holiday lets -you ,ll make more money that way I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 The bottom line is the FIT has gone. You CAN still get an export payment, the best on offer seems to be 5.5p per kWh and for that, the system must be installed by an MCS engineer and you must have a smart meter to measure export. Rough guess 10.5kWp is going to generate about 6500kWh per year so you would get paid about £360 for that. The payback time is just way to long. Not viable on that basis. I still believe PV is only viable now if you can get the kit very cheap and self install and then self use most of what you generate. On that basis I am expecting a 6 year payback. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell griffiths Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share Posted June 1, 2020 15 minutes ago, scottishjohn said: put your own meters in the holiday lets -you ,ll make more money that way I think We have ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishjohn Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 1 minute ago, ProDave said: Rough guess 10.5kWp is going to generate about 6500kWh per year so you would get paid about £360 for that agreed ,but if elec supply cost are painfully high --then in reality by using it you would be getting a vlaue of 15p ?a unit but thst still only £1000 ish I looked at an off grid 20kw system with self start gen +batteries etc £30-40k so cost for connection needs to be very high to be a winner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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