Scottish Power Smart Meter And Solar Panels

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Scottish power smart meter and solar panels.

Find out how we generate enough energy to power 1 million homes. Hi i moved into my new house a year ago which has solar panels a friend has asked how much do i get on my feed in tarriff. All of the biggest six energy firms this includes british gas along with edf energy eon npower scottish power and sse are installing smart meters and have begun pilot testing and installing smets2 meters. Features of our year round boiler care plans include.

How often we receive your readings is up to you you can choose from monthly daily or half hourly. Installing a smart meter is a great first step on the road to a greener future. We automatically receive readings from your smart meter. It used to be said smart meters and solar were not compatible that is resolved with smets2 in fact you need smets 2 to benefit from any feed back into the grid on the new system that replaces feed in tariff.

Find out more here. I had no idea. Scottish power said it could not share this information with us as it is commercially sensitive. I have a suspicion the my smart meter is documenting actual usage from the grid and scottish power insist that i take my reading from the old meter which will show the gross usage when i have solar panels fitted and they are charging me for my gross usage instead of the energy my home uses from the grid.

There are lots of ways you can continue to create a more energy efficient home such as by keeping your boiler working efficiently with a boiler care plan. Changes to the rates at which generation tariffs decrease or degress over time for solar pv wind and hydro. Smets1 meters did use to be connected so that solar input was classed as supplied from the grid. With smart meters you only ever pay for what you use.

Smart meters and solar panels the smete1 technology is old hat and is likely to be replaced by 2020 to work with eu regulations. Other suppliers are more advanced than scottish power. There is a new scheme now which requires smart meters and it registers output to the grid and gives you. Just 290 smets2 meters are installed and working in live conditions claire perry minister of state at beis said in april.

Solar panels and in home displays. A smart meter is a digital device that measures your energy use. Changes to the definition of eligibility date. A system of deployment caps limits for solar pv wind and hydro.

All smart smets meters can measure energy consumed imported and exported back into the grid the government department for business energy and industrial strategy beis told us. Smete11 should be out with scottish power in 2018 and it is best to wait for that. However as your energy is produced in a different way to if you a had a standard meter some coming from the solar panels and some from the grid we asked an expert how a smart meter would.