{"id":15819,"date":"2017-10-19T09:29:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T22:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=15819"},"modified":"2017-11-09T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T03:43:54","slug":"retailer-ripping-you-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/retailer-ripping-you-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Electricity Retailer Ripping You Off On Solar Feed-In Tariffs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15969\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15969\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/feed-in-tariff-theft.jpg\" alt=\"pick pocket\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m getting reports that some electricity retailers are refusing to honour the full feed-in-tariff. In my opinion, that is theft.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Let Me Know If Your Electricity Retailer Is Cheating You Out Of Your Solar Feed-In Tariff&#8230;<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I received an email on the week-end from someone who wanted help understanding how their electricity retailer, Red Energy<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/retailer-ripping-you-off\/#en-15819-1' id='enref-15819-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(15819)'>1<\/a><\/sup>, worked out their bill.\u00a0 Because I am kind of slack, I only got around to calling Red Energy yesterday, but the person I talked to was able to give me some good news &#8212; if Red Energy is your retailer, then no matter how much solar electricity you send into the grid, you will receive every cent of solar feed-in tariff you are entitled to.\u00a0 If your total solar feed-in tariff payment is greater than your electricity bill you will receive a credit that will reduce future electricity bills or you can apply to have that money refunded to you<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/retailer-ripping-you-off\/#en-15819-2' id='enref-15819-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(15819)'>2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<h2>Retailers May Not Pay All The Solar Feed-In Tariff Earned<\/h2>\n<p>Now you may be thinking to yourself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What&#8217;s so great about this?\u00a0 Surely every electricity retailer works this way?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, I have been told not every retailer is so honest and there are some that weasel their way out of paying all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/feed-in-tariffs\/\">solar feed-in tariff<\/a> a household has earned.\u00a0 Apparently there are some that will refuse to pay a credit if the amount of solar feed-in tariff earned exceeds the electricity bill.\u00a0 An even worse practice I have heard of is only allowing the feed-in tariff to reduce the kilowatt-hour charges for grid electricity and not allowing it to reduce the daily supply charge.<\/p>\n<p>Because the electricity retailer will accept a payment from the electricity distributor for every kilowatt-hour of solar electricity their customers export into the grid, limiting the amount of solar feed-in tariff customers receive is, as far as I am concerned, stealing from them.<\/p>\n<h2>Let Me Know Who The Offenders Are<\/h2>\n<p>Rather than contacting all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aemo.com.au\/Datasource\/Archives\/Archive124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20+ electricity retailers<\/a> in Australia and asking for details of how they pay solar households for the clean electricity they supply to the grid, I am hoping readers can let me know about offenders in the comments.\u00a0 I will use this information to begin my investigations into their foul deeds and hopefully shame them into changing their ways.<\/p>\n<h2>It May Contravene Australian Consumer Law<\/h2>\n<p>At the very least it should be possible to stop these retailers from simply stating they offer a set feed-in tariff per kilowatt-hour of solar electricity if they have no intention of paying it for every kilowatt-hour.\u00a0 Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accc.gov.au\/consumers\/consumer-rights-guarantees\/consumer-guarantees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Consumer Law<\/a>, products have to live up to their descriptions and I think that with the way solar feed-in tariffs are presented now, any reasonable person would conclude they apply to every kilowatt-hour of solar electricity exported to the grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let Me Know If Your Electricity Retailer Is Cheating You Out Of Your Solar Feed-In Tariff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[636],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-15819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electricity-prices","tag-feed-in-tariffs","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Your Electricity Retailer Ripping You Off On Solar Feed-In Tariffs? 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Here I talk about Feed In Tariffs and what to do if your nasty energy retailer wants to punish you for going solar... http:\/\/youtu.be\/3B8CN4hqAa0 Transcription below for those who prefer to read: Hi, I'm Finn Peacock. 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