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Electricity meter INCLUDES the electricity generated from my solar panels

  • October 31, 2023
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HI, firstly please forgive my ignorance - I am not an expert in this field.

I have PV system on my garage roof comprising 16 solar panels, a Solis inverter and a Pylontech battery.

My problem is that my electricity meter records ALL electricity energy used in my house as being supplied by my electricity supplier from the electricity grid but which INCLUDES the electricity self-generated by my panels which has been considerable.

My electricity supplier is over charging for the electricity being pulled from the grid as it records self-generated electricity as if it is being supplied by the grid.

They have recently installed a new SMETS2 meter but the problem of them also charging me for my self-generated electricity persists (i.e. it is showing all electricity being used in my house as being supplied from the grid) and is costing a fortune! 

Can anyone help with what may be causing this and how it can be rectified please?

Best answer by waltyboy

Hi @JohnnyMack I can see how that would be wildly frustrating.

 

How  long have you had your PV system, and was it in an effort to solve your problem that you had the SMETS2 meter fitted?

 

Do you have your own generation meter, which records all that your PV panels generate (regardless of how much is used by you and how much is exported back to the grid).

 

Was the system installed by an MCS registered person…if so, they should not have left you in this position. 

 

I can well understand how frustrated you must feel at being actually penalised for producing your own power, but this doesn’t sound an intractable problem, given sufficient goodwill on the part of your energy supplier when you explain things to them! For example, your smart meter will be well able to separate imported electricity from exported electricity: you could carefully examine the function buttons on your smart meter and try and find the different registers for imported kWh and for exported kWh, that would be a good start in getting your supplier’s agreement that something is seriously up with their billing. 
 

I’m not an expert either, but it does sound to me as though it’s a metering problem: the DNO meter (which your energy supplier has to use) is not informing your supplier about what is being imported and what is being exported…but even that is not answering your main problem about why your total household consumption is being seen as totally imported from the Grid. 
 

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will step in and help you further, but in the meantime do have a good examine of your smart meter’s readouts….

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July 16, 2024

Thanks @BPLightlog 

It is difficult to tell as everything disappears into the white box on the right, but as I can probably get the installer out quite quickly I'll ask him to double check everything first.

Thanks for all your help 

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April 27, 2025

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BPLightlog
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April 27, 2025

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I don’t know if this relates to your question here 

but if the same subject, it’s best to keep things in one place.

If you’re looking at the title subject here, then a meter cannot record solar as consumed unless the system is wired incorrectly.

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April 28, 2025

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I don’t know if this relates to your question here 

but if the same subject, it’s best to keep things in one place.

If you’re looking at the title subject here, then a meter cannot record solar as consumed unless the system is wired incorrectly.



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