Who pays for new home solar generated power ie Feed In Tariff

I'm probably not explaining it too clearly Chris. Previous to having the diverter if we wanted hot water in summer we would use the 3kW immersion heater instead of firing up the wood stove. Even if we switched the immersion heater on when the solar system was generating peak power at about 2kW, with base load of about 500W we still had to import 1.5kW to heat the water. Very rarely will we be generating that power and more likely about 1-1.5 so water heating required about 2kW imported. That also assumed we remember to switch the immersion on when the sun is shining. Now we just let Eddi divert the excess to the immersion during the day so the water heats gradually with whatever the surplus is above our baseload. Eddi takes care of the switching automatically and has very fast response times. If we boil the kettle for tea there's obviously no excess but as soon as the kettle switches off the Eddi switches excess power to the immersion heater. The result is we have hot water without cost of importing from the grid. We maximise our own use of our generating capacity and minimise our import of grid power. Cost saving may be minimal in the short term but the convenience of hot water during summer at zero cost is a real benefit. Not sure if that helps explain the benefit of the diverter but it's worth visiting the MyEnergi web site for a technical explanation of the UK manufactured products. Cheers Andy

I'm probably not explaining it too clearly Chris. Previous to having the diverter if we wanted hot water in summer we would use the 3kW immersion heater instead of firing up the wood stove. Even if we switched the immersion heater on when the solar system was generating peak power at about 2kW, with base load of about 500W we still had to import 1.5kW to heat the water. Very rarely will we be generating that power and more likely about 1-1.5 so water heating required about 2kW imported. That also assumed we remember to switch the immersion on when the sun is shining. Now we just let Eddi divert the excess to the immersion during the day so the water heats gradually with whatever the surplus is above our baseload. Eddi takes care of the switching automatically and has very fast response times. If we boil the kettle for tea there's obviously no excess but as soon as the kettle switches off the Eddi switches excess power to the immersion heater. The result is we have hot water without cost of importing from the grid. We maximise our own use of our generating capacity and minimise our import of grid power. Cost saving may be minimal in the short term but the convenience of hot water during summer at zero cost is a real benefit. Not sure if that helps explain the benefit of the diverter but it's worth visiting the MyEnergi web site for a technical explanation of the UK manufactured products. Cheers Andy