Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the introduction of net metering for solar PV and the renewables industry to provide value for money to consumers.

Net-metering was considered as part of the 2015 Feed-in-Tariff review. Government’s view at the time was that net-metering would not achieve the objective of cost control nor pay a fair price for the electricity exported.

On 19 July government published a Call for Evidence to understand further the challenges and opportunities for small-scale low-carbon generation – including solar PV. The Call for Evidence closed on 30 August and a response from government will be provided in due course thereafter. All evidence submitted will be considered and used to inform any future policy proposals.