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I'm installing a Solar Powered irrigation system for an allotments site, and as an added bonus I was wondering if I could make it qualify for the FiT. It's purely DC so I'd need a DC meter. I can't find one through any website I can think of, and plenty of places say they don't exist (ofgem approved that is).

Do any of you knowledgeable bods have a definitive answer?
 
You can't very well feed DC back into the grid, which is AC. You'd also need a service head installed, in an allotment.
I'd say it was a nice idea but pie in the sky.
 
You can get FiT payments for off-grid systems, but you need a MID-approved total generation meter. I have never seen a DC one.

There are plenty of off-grid systems getting paid FiTs but AFAIK they all must be using an AC meter.

Having an MPAN is just one of the criteria for determining a FiT 'site'. There are others.
 
TedM is correct as always, I had a farm installation that had it's own supply, but the MPAN was at the farmhouse adress 1/2 mile away so we had to use OS
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