Export (Generation) electricity data

Smart meters can also collect the amount of energy you send out to the grid (exported energy) but, by default, this isn't available for most end customers. 

Export is when you home or business produces electricity via renewable sources like solar panels or wind turbine or even via other sources like diesel generators! It can also occur if you have a battery and it release more energy than you home or business is using at that moment. Export, from a meter perspective, is when your home or business produces more electricity than you use, the excess is "exported" back to the electricity grid and you may be entitled to receive payment for this energy.

To do this, there's a number of steps that need to be completed.

1. You'll need an "export MPAN". This looks the same but is different from your regular MPAN (also known as "import MPAN"). This will need to be allocated by your export electricity Supplier (which could be the same or different from your regular electricity Supplier). 

2. Once you have an export MPAN allocated by your Supplier they will also need to install that MPAN onto your smart meter digitally, only then will we the meter start recording export data and we'll be able to access your export readings for you. 

3. Once steps 1 & 2 are complete, you may need to repeat the n3rgy consent process so our systems discover the new MPAN and start reading it.

Steps 1 & 2 are completed by your Electricity Supplier, please contact them for further details. It can take several days or even weeks depending on your Supplier but once complete, step 3 will take minutes and within a day you should start seeing this export data

Note 1: Feed In Tariff (FIT)

If the end customer has been receiving FIT (a) payments for their export, it is unlikely they have completed either step described above as FIT (a) payments do not depend on these steps being complete (they do not even depend on the end customer having a smart meter installed!), payments are based on installed capacity and not actual export. Therefore before anything can be performed using export data (such as participation in Demand Flexibility calculations or payments, or Smart Export Guarantee payments (a) ) the above steps need to be completed.

Note 2: Non DCC meters & DCC Enrolled meters

Pre DCC enrolment, SMEST1 meters did have the ability to  provide export readings without an export MPAN being assigned or installed into the smart meter. However, once this meter has been migrated to the DCC this functionality is lost until an export MPAN is assigned AND installed (completion of steps 1 & 2 above). This can cause signficant confusion with end customers has they are typically not aware of end or if their meter has been migrated to the DCC system.

a) https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-and-social-schemes/feed-tariffs-fit

b) https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-and-social-schemes/smart-export-guarantee-seg