Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) scheme.

Get paid for your excess electricity.

You already benefit from generating your own electricity. Now, you can help others by selling the renewable electricity you don't need back to the grid - and generate some extra income for you or your business at the same time.

And here's what you could make when you use 62% of the energy you generated and sell 38% back to the grid (based on the government's Standard Assessment Procedure and the current capped cost of electricity at 30p per unit).

*Assumptions: The average daily solar radiation in the UK is around 3.5 kWh/m2/day. The efficiency of solar panels is typically around 15-20%.

*Exactly how much you earn depends on things like solar battery setup, your energy consumption, the location of your home, the slope of your roof, what direction your solar panels are facing and how long they are in the shade.

What is the SEG scheme?

The government set up the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) scheme to help everyone use more renewable energy. That means energy suppliers like E.ON Next pay domestic and business customers for any excess energy generated with renewable sources (such as solar panels).

The SEG scheme replaced the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme that ended in April 2019.

You must also:

• Own the solar panels, wind turbine or whatever generates your electricity (or have permission from the owner).

• Have a unit with a capacity of up to 5MW.

• Have an installation that's been Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) certified or has Flexi-Orb certification.

• Have a meter that records the energy you export to the grid every half hour.

• Be able to opt out of FiT payments or be prepared to lose your FiT export payment (if you're receiving them).

• Not be receiving SEG payments from anyone else .

• T&Cs apply.

How do I apply for the E.ON Next SEG tariff?

Any home or business can sell the extra power they generate back to the grid. Just complete your Smart Export Guarantee application form online and send it to us (it can take up to 4 weeks to process your application).

And don't forget to include:

1. A valid MCS or Flexi-Orb Certificate​.

2. Proof of address.

If E.ON Next is NOT your energy supplier or your installation was not completed by E.ON Solar, we need a proof of address such as:

• Council Tax statement.

• Bank statement.

• Solicitor's letter.

• Tenancy agreement.

• Mortgage statement.

You can find more accepted proofs of address on gov.uk.

3. A photograph of your smart meter or export meter.

We need to see :

• The serial number.

• Make.

• Model.

• Export reading.

Please remember this is not your generation meter.

Here's how you get your export reading from your smart meter.

4. Schematic diagram.

If you store a battery on-site, we'll need a schematic. Something like this:

5. DNO approval/acceptance letter/email.

This confirms that your G98 or G99 application was received or processed by your DNO (Distribution Network Operator). They're the company that brings electricity from the national network to your home or business. (It's not the DNO notification form we're after.)

If you do not have the DNO letter, don't worry. Just contact your DNO or your installer. Here are the links to each operator:

• Western Power Distribution WPD

• UK Power Networks UKPN

• Scottish Power Energy Networks SPEN

• Scottish & Southern Energy Networks SSEN

• Northern Powergrid

• Electricity North West

6. G98 or G99 application form (Scottish Power only).

Signed up to Scottish Power? They don't provide approval letters, so we are happy to accept the application form you sent to them.

Now you're ready to fill out the E.ON Next SEG tariff application form:

Applying as a business?

If your company is VAT registered, VAT will be added to your export payment. You'll need to complete the E.ON Next application form AND this self-billing form.

What happens next?

• We'll check we've received everything we need from you.

• We apply for an Export MAN. This helps us work out how much energy you're exporting.

• When your account has been set up, you'll receive an email confirming your start date and reading, along with your export tariff info and what's next.

• After that, you'll receive your payments annually.