ESB solar panel glitch - are you impacted?

About this episode

The episode discusses a technical issue with ESB solar panels affecting 200,000 households and their payments.

A “technical issue” with ESB solar panels means that 200,000 households fear missing payments for the sunniest weeks of the year. It comes as homeowners have discovered the electricity they are exporting to the grid has not been displayed by ESB Networks (ESBN) since May 25th… Joining Andrea to discuss this is Finance Editor with Irish Independent, Charlie Weston, Peter Finn AKA Pete the Builder and listeners.

People in this episode

Host: Andrea

Guests: Charlie Weston, Peter Finn AKA Pete the Builder

Topics covered

• solar panels
• technical issues
• household payments
• electricity export
• ESB Networks

Keywords

• ESB solar panels
• technical issue
• households
• electricity
• payments
• grid export

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ESB Networks, Irish Independent

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