Electric Meter Going Backwards

Over the Christmas holidays during a couple of sunny days I noticed that my electric meter was spinning backwards. Up till then I hadn’t really had any decent days to witness this before. At least not while at home in the daytime.

I have searched around on the internet a little to see if this was how the grid feed-in tariff works and discovered quite a lot of posts on various solar forums discussing the subject. It seems that I may have an old electric meter. And this is why on sunny days when electric generation is greater than my needs it causes the meter to run backwards – the greater the generation the faster it spins!

After reviewing some of the information online I have today phoned and reported it to my electric supplier. It was logged with the micro-generation department by the operative, who will look into and call me back. I will post again once I have received a reply.