Agree. Had ours retrofitted last year. Some quotes were ludicrous due to scaffolding but I found someone who just uses a rope system (he's a mountaineer) and saved about £2k.
The export rate is fixed at 50% of what we generate. If memory serves me well, we could have either had a metered export facility (ie you only get paid for exactly what is exported) or agree a flat 50%. We signed up to the 50%. As for imported cost, 30.899p. We have 18 panels on a SW facing...
It was a very good deal and as I said in my post, we got our panels in 2011 so were in quite early on the fit scheme. At that time the scheme was trying to encourage as many as possible to get PV panels. We bought ours so we get the benefit of FIT payments as well as the energy we generate but...
I'm a bit puzzled as you say the generation doesn't pay much. Are you on the FIT scheme or was your installation prior to that being introduced? We had ours fitted in 2011 and earn about £2.2k from the generation each year and that foes up by RPI each April. Think we're getting about 70p per...