Dimming when your supplier asks for it.

Until 2027

This affects your energy bill. Under net metering, your energy supplier is required to supply electricity free of charge at times when it is expensive (high demand / in the evening), in exchange for the energy you feed in at times when electricity has little value (high supply / during sunny hours). With the growing number of solar panels, energy suppliers face ever higher costs from this mandatory free supply outside sunny hours, and for several years now they have passed these costs on to net-metering households through feed-in charges.

From 1 January 2027

From 1 January 2027 net metering ends, and as a solar panel owner you will no longer receive free electricity outside sunny hours in exchange for what you fed in during the day. Instead, you will receive a feed-in tariff per kWh fed in, which will be very low (a few cents per kWh at most).