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Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) make renewable Contents generation more financially rewarding •• Are you eligible for FITs? •• How to sign up for smaller installations and help reduce •• Export payments the UK’s carbon emissions. You receive •• Registering an export MPAN •• Application checklist a fixed long term tariff for every unit of •• Frequently asked questions electricity generated, even if you use it •• Jargon buster all onsite. See how EDF Energy can help you benefit as a FITs generator.

Are you eligible for FITs?

There are four main factors which work towards your FITs eligibility;

1. Technology: you must have a wind turbine, Generators must gain accreditation from Ofgem solar photovoltaic (PV), hydro-electric, anaerobic before signing up to the FIT scheme. When you digestion or a micro CHP generator. become ROO-FIT accredited, you will receive a Size: FITs are for generators with an installed ROO-FIT accreditation letter from Ofgem. We’ll capacity no more than 5MW* with the exception need a copy of this as proof of accreditation. of micro CHP which is 2kW. For more information on accrediting your installation, contact Ofgem at: 2. Accreditation: [email protected] • Micro generation Certification Scheme (MCS) 3. Installation date: Your installation must be Accredited – this is an independent scheme that commissioned on or after the 15 July 2009 to be certifies installers and micro generation products eligible. below 50kW inaccordance with industry standards. Any system below 50kW other than 4. Grants: how your installation is funded will Anaerobic Digestion must have MCS accredited also affect your FITs eligibility. Further details can equipment and be fitted by a MCS Accredited be found here. We recommend you contact the installer. Your installer will provide you with a organisation who provided the funding for more MCS certificate once the installation is complete, information. and we’ll need a copy of this when you sign up. * Announcements have been made to consider extending the • Systems over 50kW and anaerobic digestion scheme to 10MW, but this is not decided yet. installations are not covered by the MCS and must apply directly through the ROO-FIT accreditation process managed by Ofgem.

How to sign up

If you have an eligible renewable installation and wish to sign up to our FITs scheme:

1 Complete our FITs application form and 2 We’ll then register you on to the provide an initial meter reading FITs Central Register You can sign up to EDF Energy’s FITs scheme if you When we receive your completed application are one of the following; we will register you onto the FITs Central • you are an existing EDF Energy customer for the Register, which is a system administrated by electricity at the site Ofgem and used by all FITs suppliers. • you are a customer of a Voluntary FITs Supplier Please note that for installations greater than (this is a supplier that has less than 50,000 50kW EDF Energy will not register you onto domestic customers) for your electricity supply the FITs Central Register. Instead you will need at the site to apply to Ofgem directly, for ROO – FIT • Off Grid, which means the site does not receive accreditation, click here for information an electricity supply from the National Grid and is not able to export to a local distribution 3 Ofgem will confirm to us that your network installation has been registered, and then we’ll send out your FITs Statement of Terms. If you fall into one of the categories above, contact Your FITs Statement of Terms will detail the terms our Green Energy Team on 0800 404 9087* and and conditions of the agreement and all your ask for a FITs application form. accreditation details. It will also state in which months you are required to submit a meter reading. You will then have to review, sign and return the FITs Statement of Terms to us.

*Lines available 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 8.30am to 2pm on Saturday. Calls may be monitored and recorded as part of our customer care programme. Calls to ‘0800’ numbers are free from BT landlines. Other network operators may charge for these calls.

Export Payments

To receive the FIT export payments you will need to have the ability to export and have opted in to receive export payments.

Installations with a total installed capacity What to do if your total installed capacity of 30kW or below is greater than 30kW and you require an There is currently no requirement to have export meter: an export meter. DECC have prescribed If you require an export meter then you will 4. Complete the export section in our FIT that all FIT suppliers assume 50% of a total need to follow our new connection process. application form, and if you would like to generation (75% for hydro) is exported. have an export meter fitted, prior to your 1. Contact your Distribution Network Installations with a total installed capacity FIT Agreement being in place, you will Operator (DNO) for an export Meter Point greater than 30kW need to sign our interim Export Registration Administration Number (MPAN) You are required to have an export meter Agreement. to measure exactly what you are exporting 2. Appoint a Meter Operator (MOP) to manage 5. EDF Energy will then register your export to the grid. If you choose not to have an the meters installation and maintenance. MPAN and send the relevant dataflows to export meter then you will have to opt-out of 3. If you are a non half hourly (NHH) import your MOP instructing them to manage the receiving export payments. customer, you will need a contract with export meter. Off Grid installations a Data Aggregator/ Data Collection (DA/ Are not entitled to export payments, as the DC) Company. The company will collect installation is not attached to the grid and so and verify your meter data. Please contact cannot export energy. Therefore you must [email protected] for advice declare that all electricity generated is used on the DA/DC companies that are available onsite for your own consumption. to you. More details on meter operators can be found on the association of meter operators website here.

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Application checklist

To support your eligibility to the FIT Scheme, along with your EDF Energy FIT application form, you will need to provide the following:

MCS Certificate ROO-FIT Accreditation For all installations below 50kW your installer will For all installations greater than 50kW you will need provide you with a Microgeneration Certification to register your installation with Ofgem directly and Scheme (MCS) provide us with your ROO-FIT Accreditation reference. Energy Performance Certificate for Solar Proof of installation ownership PV installations It is required for all eligible FIT generators to FIT Applications for Solar PV will need to evidence that they are the owner of the installation. demonstrate that the building which the technology This should be either: is attached or wired to has an Energy Performance • A receipt or other document stating ownership, Certificate rating of D or above. or transfer of ownership Please note that if your property is not able to • A copy of the sale and purchase agreement provide this evidence your tariff will be set at a lower transferring ownership from one party to another rate. And should your property improve its efficiency rating in the future your tariff will remain that of Start read when you applied to the scheme. However there For email applications this meter reading must will be criteria provided by Ofgem in extreme cases. be taken on the date you sign and return this For more information on Energy Performance application. For postal applications please leave Certificates click here. the reading field blank and we will contact you by telephone or email on or soon after the date that we receive the application. Your Feed in Tariff payments will start from this reading.

Meter readings going forward months EDF Energy will send you an automated Under our FITs scheme you are required to provide e-mail containing a link to submit your read; for meter readings from your total generation meter which you have the whole of the month to do so. and, where applicable, your export meter. Your Once we receive your read we will verify this and meter reading months will be detailed in your FIT then use it, with your generation and export tariff, Statement of Terms. At the beginning of these to calculate your FIT payment.

Frequently asked questions

How much will I get paid under the Export Tariff – a fixed 4.5p/kWh rate for What if you want your FITs payments to FITs scheme? any surplus amount of energy which is sent be made to someone else? FITs consists of two tariffs; a Generation back to the electricity grid. Generators will Under the FITs scheme you can nominate a Tariff and an Export Tariff. receive the export tariff in addition to the third party to receive your FITs payments. For generation tariff. further details contact our Green Energy Team Generation Tariff – a fixed rate that a FIT on: 0800 404 9087*. generator will receive for every kWh of Both tariffs will be linked to inflation and will renewable energy generated regardless of be paid to the FITs generator on a quarterly Generation Tariff where the energy is used. To measure the basis subject to receipt of meter readings. For the latest tariff rates please click here to electricity generated there must be an Ofgem direct you to Ofgem’s website approved total generation meter connected Do I have to sell my exported energy to the installation. under the FITs scheme? You can opt in/out of the FITs export tariff Electricity Electricity Electricity generated used flows on an annual basis. Larger generators may wish to do this if they want to enter contracts negotiated in the wholesale electricity market. Generators off grid will not receive any export

Import payment. meter Imported energy How long will I be able to receive FITs payments? The tariffs are available for 20 years (10 years for micro CHP) from the date you joined the Exported energy scheme or until your installation ceases to operate. Different rules apply for generators On-site generation Total generation meter Export unit meter migrating from the RO.

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Frequently asked questions

What metering is required under FITs? When do I have to submit meter readings? from 1 April 2012 for every additional All FITs generators are required to have a valid In order to get paid on a quarterly basis, you installation you will receive the multi- total generation meter. This measures the should submit meter readings from your total installation tariff. amount of electricity the generator produces. generation meter four times a year. We will It is important to understand that to determine provide you with four meter reading months Installations with an installed capacity greater if you are a multi-installation, Ofgem will within your FITs Statement of Terms. You than 30kW are also required to have a half take into consideration any connected person can take and submit your meter reading any hourly export meter. This measures the receiving FITs payments for PV installations. time within your meter reading month. We amount of electricity which flows from the recommend that the read is submitted as soon Please note that once the multi-installation customers premises to the local electricity as possible. If we don’t receive a meter reading tariff rate has been applied to your installation, distribution network. or we are unable to validate the meter read the higher rates cannot subsequently be These meters are separate from your normal provided by the end of your meter reading applied. So if at a later date you decide to import meter. Your meter will not roll backwards month, then your FIT payment will be delayed transfer the FIT payments to someone else, due to onsite generation. All export meters until the next quarter. or the ownership changes to a person who must be registered under the Balancing and does not meet the above criteria, the multi- If your installation is above 30kW, you have Settlement Code (BSC) to enable suppliers to installation tariff will still remain. opted into FITs export tariff and you have take export meter readings. an export meter there is no need to provide As most export supplies usually require an export meter readings. import supply, a combined import/export How will I get paid under FITs? meter is installed. If you already have an import meter, this may have to be changed We will make payments to your bank account to a combined meter. The combined import/ on a quarterly basis. export meter is programmed to record your What happens if I receive FIT payments import and export supply separately. for 25 or more solar PV installations? If you are a FIT generator or nominated recipient for FIT payments and you receive an income from 25 or more solar PV installations,

Frequently asked questions

Why do I need to provide an Energy How do I know what meter I have? How long does it take to set up Performance Certificate? If you are a HH (half hourly) metered import FIT export meter? From the 1 April 2012 to be eligible for customer, your MPAN will start with 00 (please Once the MOP and DA/DC contracts are in the standard solar PV tariff rate you will be refer to your import bill). place, the export meter should be set up required to demonstrate that the building within 5 weeks. which the technology is attached or wired 00XXX Supply MPAN to has an energy efficiency rating of Level D S When should I expect my first export or above, through an Energy Performance payment? Certificate. Payments can take up to 90 days from the end If you are a NHH (non half hourly) metered of the exported energy quarter. If your buildings energy efficiency rating is import customer, your MPAN will start with 01, below Level D then you will receive a set lower 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07 or 08 (please refer to When and how do I provide readings tariff rate, which will remain for the duration your import bill). from my export meter? of the contract, even if the buildings energy There is no requirement for you to provide efficiency is improved in the future. 01XXX meter readings for us, as EDF Energy will obtain Supply MPAN Therefore if you are planning to improve S your readings (also known as ‘advances’) from your buildings energy efficiency, it maybe your export meter via the communications line worthwhile waiting to apply for the FIT What is a DNO? on a quarterly basis. scheme until the improvements have been A DNO, Distribution Network Operator, is made. This will mean having a later eligibility a company licensed to distribute electricity date, but you will be eligible for a higher tariff. in Great Britain by OFGEM. DNO is also For more information on tariffs click here. responsible for allocating the core Meter Point Administration Number (MPAN) used to Who can I set up my DA/DC contract with? identify individual supply points in its respective Please contact B2BFeedinTariff@edfenergy. areas, as well as operating and administering com for advice on the DA/DC companies that a Meter Point Administration System that are available to you. More details on meter manages the details relating to each supply operators can be found on the association of point. These systems then populate ECOES, the meter operators website here. central online database of electricity supply points.

Jargon buster

Balancing and Settlement Code FITs Statement of Terms Ofgem (Office of the Gas The BSC sets out rules for the registration A FITs agreement that generators will enter and Electricity Markets) and metering of electricity flowing to into with a FITs supplier. Regulator of the electricity and gas markets and from electricity transmission and in Great Britain. Ofgem is administrating the MCS Accreditation distribution networks; The BSC specifies FITs scheme. Micro Generation Certification metering Codes of Practice (CoPs) that Scheme (MCS), is an independent Voluntary FITs Suppliers set out the technical requirements for scheme that certifies micro generation Smaller energy suppliers who have less than metering systems, including accuracy, products below 50kW and installers in 50,000 customers and therefore are not communications, testing and redundancy. accordance with industry standards. obliged to supply FITs to their customers. Connected Person If you are supplied by a voluntary FITs Multi-installation tariff Means a person whom is in partnership, supplier but wish to take your FITs payments This tariff is applied to all new solar PV whether personally or through companies, from EDF Energy we can still sign you up. installations with an eligibility date on or within the meaning of section 1122 after 1 April 2012, where the FIT generator Meter Reading Months of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or the nominated recipient for FIT payments EDF Energy recommends you to submit Energy efficiency receive an income from more than 25 solar meter readings from your total generation This is calculated by estimating what the energy PV installations. meter four calendar months per year. We efficiency and carbon dioxide emission would will state your meter reading months on Installed Capacity be if energy saving measures we put in place. your FITs Statement of Terms. It’s important This is the maximum amount of energy you note these months down, as failure to Export meter the generating equipment can produce provide readings on time will delay payment. A meter that measures the amount of when operating at its maximum capacity. electricity which flows from the customers The installed capacity is measured in kW ROO-FIT process premises to the local electricity distribution or MW and should be stated within the The route generators with above network. Only registered meters under the technical specification of the generator. 50kW installations have to take to BSC provide this data in a format recognised gain accreditation to be eligible for Total Generation Meter by energy suppliers for billing purposes. FITs or the Renewable Obligation. A meter that is normally fitted with FITs Central Register the generator (e.g. wind turbine) and A system which is administrated by Ofgem measures the amount of electricity and will hold details on all FIT generators. the generator produces.

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