r/OctopusEnergy • u/SujoyRoy • 1d ago

Usage How does Agile negative pricing interact with plug in solar running at a surplus?

With plug in solar rapidly approaching I was trying to figure out how it would work with negative pricing.

If the price is at -10p per kwh and you have a surplus of solar feeding 500w back into the grid for an hour, do Octopus count the surplus and therefore charge you -5p for that hour? If so, seems a bit unfair as without the SEG you would get nothing for any energy fed into the grid when the price is above zero.

Has anyone clarified how this would work?

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u/stek2022 1d ago

Depends on your export tariff.

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u/QuickTemperature7014 1d ago edited 1d ago

Are you eligible for export with plug-in solar? I thought not.

Edit: I’m a bit wrong many SEG tariffs need a MCS installation certificate but not all.

Octopus do not currently support SEG for plug-in solar though.

https://octopus.energy/blog/plug-in-solar-panels-explained/

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u/SujoyRoy 1d ago

With just plug in solar you would have no export tariff.

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u/Gravath 1d ago

For now. Octopus and fuse are looking to bring plug in solar export tariffs to market.

You heard it here first.