Both the inverter and main board are downstream of the suppliers meter, so the electric the main board draws from the inverter is not recorded on the suppliers meter.

Both the inverter and main board are downstream of the suppliers meter, so the electric the main board draws from the inverter is not recorded on the suppliers meter.

indeed - but once solar generation exceeds local demand, the voltage on the load side of the meter will be pushed up higher than on the supply side, and then the power flow will reverse, and then you are propping up the street main with home generated power.. Only then does the meter  "reverse".
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Sparkingchip said:

Both the inverter and main board are downstream of the suppliers meter, so the electric the main board draws from the inverter is not recorded on the suppliers meter.

Unless it's a SMETS2 smart meter.  They are set up to record both import and export.  With the ending of the FIT scheme for new installs, that's the way a householder can get paid for any generation that they export.

Not quite.

Meters with import and export registers (and they don't have to be smart meters) will only see a reduced consumption. If it's reduced below zero, obviously that'll be recorded as an export.

That is not to say you can't have both improt and export in the same billing period of course... neither register runs backwards.

Only then does the meter  "reverse".

Old mechanical meters were fitted with a pawl system so they didn't record exported power (hence FIT's 50% deemed export).

Nowadays smart meters record imported and exported separately, so even people on the original FIT scheme get paid by actual exports (but then have the option to switch to an smart export tariff, which usually pays better).

   - Andy.