[michelle1]

@Lee_EONNext

I am small business customer of EON and have a new site coming up - and looking to install smart meter and sort electricity supply, but have solar panels and battery. I have read up about your SEG tariff that pays 16.5 pence for kwh. The information doesn't make clear what the import tariff rates are, also because it's a fixed 12 month tariff, does the export rate get baked in at the end of the tariff or through out? I wasn't clear how it works.

[Lee_EONNext]

Hey @michelle1

Great to hear from you, the import tariff would not be affected by the SEG tariff. I would recommend obtaining a quote for the import supply from our website www.eonnext.com

Have you managed to get yourself set up with us yet?

[Carrisi]

@Lee_EONNext I’m really confused. My mate has your 15p export tariff and had solar installed by someone else (he says). Yet when I look at your eligibility, and I’ve had a powerwall installed (by someone else) and don’t have any solar it seems I’m not eligible……?

[Lee_EONNext]

@Carrisi

It's really difficult for me to comment on individuals eligibility etc without having all of the paperwork etc - The best thing for you to do is speak to the SEG Team directly on 0808 501 5218 or you can email in hi@eonnext.com - then pop FAO SEG in the subject and the team will pick this up for you,

Looking on the website I can't see a 15p tariff? https://www.eonnext.com/electricity-...port-guarantee

[wizzo227]

@Carrisi
I'm not official at EoN. Anything from your powerwall, and you have no solar panels, must have gone into it from the usual national grid energy mix, with lots of fossil gas fired and imported electricity even at the best of times. So anything which you pull out of your battery is normal national grid energy; no help at all at improving the renewable fraction in the mix so (perhaps?) not worth paying the full generous SEG price for. If your mate exports some of his solar through SEG, the accountants at EoN can tick a box "is renewable Y/N?" and improve the average renewableness score of their company procurement of electricity for his street, and probably sell some rego certificates to their Lignite furnace in Germany too, which has been digging a deeper hole for itself every year.

[Sartori01]

Trying to get to grips with the Eon position ref brown energy export - I have read through 3 forum threads regarding eligibility for eon next drive (6.7p import for 7 hours, 16.5p export), and I'm not 100% confident I know what the rules are. I have a domestic solar & battery system installed by a local company, my energy import & export is currently with Octopus, but am considering switching to Eon. At current I am free to import energy to my batteries while it is cheap over night, then export both solar and spare battery capacity during the day, no issues. I do this primarily because it pays to do so, but I am proud to do it with the thought of balancing the grid, and aiding the transition to a smart grid which allows for the peaks and troughs of renewable generation. I'd love to think this overnight energy is green - wind turbines doing what wind turbines do, but even if not green, at the very least I would hope that it is less dirty energy than that which would be generated in peak daytime demand periods where additional coal plants et al may be fired to cope with demand.

Looking at switching to Eon, I want to clarify if this is something which is supported (and ideally valued) by Eon, rather than feel like I am in some way cheating the system by exporting energy, some of which may have come from the grid when there was excess (cheap) energy overnight.

I know the SEG guidelines state that energy providers are allowed to pay for this "brown energy", and indeed that they are allowed to not pay for it at their discretion, but I haven't been able to fully clarify exactly what the Eon stance is.
@Lee_EONNext - from my reading around this topic your name comes up often, and you seem to be the most clued up on the current Eon position, though I note you stated somewhere that you aren't part of the SEG team - I wondered if you (or anyone else) could clarify things for me here?

[Lee_EONNext]

@Sartori01 I will try my best with this... I will get clarification on if we are still paying 'brown energy' things change all the time in SEG - As of November last year we were paying it however let me triple check for you.

I am not in the SEG Team, that is correct however I have experience in solar, mainly FIT - over 8 years so naturally SEG comes to me, there is another colleague on the Community in @Poppy_EONNext who is upping her knowledge, so between the pair of us, most questions can be answered.

Let me get back to you, I will get you a concrete answer asap!!

[Sartori01]

Hi @Lee_EONNext, thankyou for your help with this.

The halcyon days of the FIT - some of my family members were just in time to get solar installations completed before that deadline closed - and have been reaping the upside since.

I look forward to hopefully picking yours and poppy's brains further on this subject.

[Lee_EONNext]

@Sartori01 No trouble at all, it's what we are here for 😎

So, in terms of your question 'do we pay for brown energy in terms of export'

Our stance as of 11/05/2025 is we 'DO' pay this at the moment (just need to pop the date in here just in case it does change and this is used for reference - this is currently and is subject to change/if changes tomorrow then new rules will be enforced) Just to cover myself here 😅

Anyone reading this I would always seek advice on a case by case basis.

Just to clarify @Sartori01 - Now this could change in the future like everything however at the moment we do pay. I hope this helps.

[Sartori01]

@Lee_EONNext Thanks again for the assist. That sounds like a reasonable position, I know little is absolute in this area and things can change quickly. Should a change in policy come into play, I assume this would be well telegraphed, and critically that it would be prospective rather than retrospective?

I'm a fan of all things green, and find the systems and tariffs which develop around this area to be interesting - I noted the 15KW limit on installed solar capacity for joining the next drive tariff - I wondered if you know what the rationale is behind that? I'd assumed that 16.5p per KW in the the middle of the day (when it is usually sunniest, and also demand is high) would be a good price to buy at, but I'm sure there are concerns beyond my understanding.