Ecotricity and understanding their billing (Solar)

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Aucklandjafa

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#323633 25-Dec-2025 07:34

Merry Christmas!

Before I contact Ecotricity, and potentially look like a knob, I was wondering if anyone knows how their billing works (can't find anything on Google)

Just a couple of things:

Why is there a double charge for KW used, both from the Network/Powerco and Ecotricity/Energy charges - never seen this before and secondly,
is it standard practice for solar retailers to charge for both a daily metering charge and admin climate cert (whatever that it)?

No idea what ever happened to just a plain old line change and your respective kw's used......

Much appreciated!

SomeoneSomewhere

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#3447154 25-Dec-2025 15:06

Some retailers bundle it all up, some show you where the different bits of money are going.

Your retailer has three main sets of costs: the cost to buy the energy wholesale (energy charges), the cost to pay the lines company to get the energy from the nearest grid exit point to your house (network/Powerco charges), and finally all the other little bits (their own expenses, customer service, profit, paying a metering company, the EA levy etc.).

Climate thing sounds like greenwash or trying to reduce the headline rate.

timmmay

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#3447160 25-Dec-2025 16:53

44c/kwh peak is pretty expensive compared with Wellington, but I guess you're low user. We're at 22c/kwh 24/7, but with the export you have probably not that important. Meridian doesn't give us that detailed a breakdown.

RunningMan

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#3447161 25-Dec-2025 16:57

It doesn't seem to show
1) the total daily charge
2) the kWh rate for each time period

A cynical person would say by breaking it down so much it's difficult to work out exactly what you pay, and harder to compare against other companies.