Feed-in-Tariff and Price per kWh export News

[petertc]

I am with ebico, i am on the rate that give you 5 p for every thing that you produce and 9 p for every thing you export. but they claim the roc's
hence the 9 p rather than the 5p from last year.

[Ted]

About the ROCs, I intend to produce 1700kWh a year, how many rocs will I get ? If I get only one, is the next 700 moved to the second year? Can I declare less and then declare 2000kWh?

You'd two 2 ROCs for annual output in the range 1500-2499kWh. So that's OK then for the typical output from a 2-ish kWp system. That's 'old' ROCs - not yet sure what happens with the double-ROCs-for-PV from 2009 i.e. do you get 4 for 1500-2499kWh, or you still get 2 but they are special 'double' ones, or is it one per 500kWh. My guess if the first of those 3 options.

I'd have to disagree slightly with that as "it depends".

If you have appointed your energy supplier as your ROC agent then the usual situation is that they will amalgamate all of the kWh generated by their customers and the 500 rounding-up applies on the total figure. They will then pay you the exact amount of ROCs based on your generation figure - so for Stef's 1700 kWh they would pay for 1.7 ROCs.

If you are using a separate ROC agent then their own contract conditions will apply but I would expect the same amalgamation and exact payment would be the norm although I haven't checked into it.

If you are handling ROCs yourself then the rounding up from each 500 units will apply.

That's my understanding anyway.

I haven't seen anything in writing showing how the double ROCs will be handled yet.

[Ted]

Incidentally on Feed-In_Tariffs I'm planning to go to a meeting being held in a few weeks time that will hopefully provide some more details.  Info on the meeting here:

http://www.ecocentre.org.uk/fit-for-purpose.html

21st May 2009, Nant y Ffin Hotel, Clunderwen, Pembrokeshire - Places are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment. 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.

How can renewable electricity projects in Wales benefit from the emerging policy?

Come and listen to the experts who are at the heart of the development of FIT in Europe and the UK:
• Josef Pesch - Leading German expert on FIT, of juwi Holding AG
• John Moriaty - Feed-in Tariffs Policy Development, Department of Energy and Climate Change
• Hugo House - Generation Marketing, Good Energy
• Gordon James - Director FoE Cymru, FoE successfully campaigned for the introduction of FIT into the UK Energy Bill

This conference will look at the German experience of successfully introducing FIT; the challenges and opportunities faced and how they have overcome some of the problems.

It will present the state of play in the UK in terms of policy and legislation.
It will hear about the practical implications of encouraging the development of small scale renewable electricity generation through FIT;
It will look at the longer term opportunities as envisioned by the campaigners and supporters of the UK FIT, and the prospects for a Renewable Wales.

Chaired by Peter Davies of the UK Sustainable Development Commission for Wales, with opening remarks by Mick Bates AM, chair of the National Assembly Sustainability Scrutiny Committee, this conference will be of interest to any person, business or community group looking seriously at the development of a major, small scale renewable electricity generation project.

There will be workshops with the main speakers and other experts and the chance to discuss the practicalities and implications for Wales of the introduction of the FIT and the transformation to a renewable energy powered society as we face the last 100 months of opportunity to undertake serious action to mitigate causes of Climate Change.