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Managing and using your generated power - a whacky idea?
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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 259805" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>Yes the old disc meters run backwards if you are exporting, so your "normal" electricity bill counts down.</p><p></p><p>This effectively means anything exported earns you another 13p per unit.</p><p></p><p>Keep quiet about it. It's not your "fault" and you are not doing anything "wrong" But you obviously have a lot less incentive to do anything to use your generated power in real time, because the nice DNO are effectively giving you 100% efficient free storage of what you generate.</p><p></p><p>I'm surprised there are still disc meters in use, they must all be quite old now and I though meters had to be changed regularly. I would also have thought the DNO's would as a matter of course go and swap out any disc meters where solar PV was installed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 259805, member: 6969"] Yes the old disc meters run backwards if you are exporting, so your "normal" electricity bill counts down. This effectively means anything exported earns you another 13p per unit. Keep quiet about it. It's not your "fault" and you are not doing anything "wrong" But you obviously have a lot less incentive to do anything to use your generated power in real time, because the nice DNO are effectively giving you 100% efficient free storage of what you generate. I'm surprised there are still disc meters in use, they must all be quite old now and I though meters had to be changed regularly. I would also have thought the DNO's would as a matter of course go and swap out any disc meters where solar PV was installed. [/QUOTE]
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