Earn money from your solar panels or wind turbine with our Smart Export Tariff

You’ll need a home solar or wind generation system with a maximum generation capacity of 5MW.

Yes, you’ll need to have a SMETS1 or SMETS2 smart meter that’s working and
communicating, plus give consent for us to collect half hourly data from your meter. If you don’t have one, we can install one for you if we already supply you for your import (energy) supply. You won’t be able to sign up to our Export Tariff until you have a smart meter installed and communicating

We’ll calculate what you’ve exported and send you an invoice every three months - we’ll then pay you for this within 10 working days of the date of your invoice.

There’s a zero pence standing charge on both our Smart Export Tariffs. This isn’t a mistake – we’re obligated to include a standing charge, even though we’re not charging for it. You’ll see a zero amount on your export statements for the standing charge.

If you’re a member of the government’s Feed-in Tariff (FIT) scheme that closed to new applicants in 2019, you’ll need to inform your FIT Licensee to opt out of FIT Export before signing up for our Smart Export Tariff. Alternatively, if you’d prefer, you can switch to our Microtricity service and we'll handle all the admin for your payments, completely hassle-free. You only need to opt out of the “export” part of FIT - you can still receive payments for your generation through the FIT scheme and get paid for your export through a Smart Export Tariff, such as ours. We’ll need you to provide evidence that your FIT licensee has opted you out - this is usually just an email confirmation from them

It’s a variable tariff with no fixed contract term or termination fees. That means you can cancel at any time without paying exit fees.

Here are the Smart Export Tariff Terms and Conditions and the Principal Terms.

To join our Smart Export Tariff, you’ll need to provide us with:

This will depend on how you use the electricity you generate, and we’re not able to advise on what may be best for you. If you’re on a FIT scheme currently, you may be on a “deemed” tariff, which means they’ll record how much electricity you generate and calculate 50% of this which they’ll pay you for your export. Some FIT customers are on a tariff which pays based on exactly what you’ve exported - if you’re on this tariff, you should just be able to compare your current export unit rate vs an alternative export product.

G98 and G99 forms are issued by your Distribution Network Operator (DNO) and confirm that the industry recognises your installation as being legally and safely connected to the distribution network. If you don't have one, you should first call your installer, as they should have arranged and issued this to you. If your installer is no longer trading (or isn't responsive to your requests), you can contact your DNO directly.

You can have a different account holder, but this would require setting up an entirely new account. Please be aware that you won’t have access to the energy (import) account and the energy account holder won’t have access to the export account. As the accounts will be in separate names, they’ll be treated as completely independent, which means you won’t be eligible for our best export rates.

Sometimes it can take a little time to get all the information we need back from the industry - until we get that, you may not be able to submit a meter reading online. In the meantime, you can still call us on 0345 230 6333 or email it to export@ecotricity.co.uk.

No - we're not currently able to accept non-communicating smart meters. If we’re also your import energy supplier, there may be things we can do to connect to your meter - just get in touch on 0345 230 6333 or email metering@ecotricity.co.uk. Otherwise, you’ll need to contact your existing energy supplier.

This is an online only product, so we're not able to sign you up over the phone. You can sign up here.

No, this is a domestic only product. If the assets are owned by a business or the entity being provided the export rate is a business, this isn’t the product for you. We’re looking at introducing some new products for businesses too – so watch this space. You can also go to For your business | Ecotricity for more information; or alternatively call us on 0345 230 6102 or email businesssales@ecotricity.co.uk to discuss what products we already have available for our business customers.