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How to read your Feed-in Tariff statement
A FIT statement packs the four facts that govern your payments into a page most people file without reading. Here is what each part means, and the three checks worth doing every time.
The identifiers, and the one date that matters
Near the top are your FIT ID and the details of the installation. Among them is your eligibility date, and it is the most important figure on the whole document, because it fixed your tariff band when you were accredited and it never changes. Everything else on the statement follows from it. If you only ever check one thing, check that this date is the one you expect, because a wrong band is a wrong rate on every payment.
The tariff
The statement names the tariff you are on, as a rate in pence per kWh. It is index-linked and revised every financial year, so the figure will not match the one you were quoted when the system went in, and that is normal rather than an error, as why your rate changes every April explains. You can check it against the published rates table for your band and the 2026-27 year.
The meter readings
Payments are worked out from readings, so the readings are the part to scrutinise. What you see depends on your export type:
Deemed export. A generation reading only. Your export payment is worked out from an assumed share of generation, not a measured export, so there is no export reading to see.
Metered export. A generation reading and an export reading, because the export is measured. See deemed or metered export for the difference.
The single most useful habit is to photograph your own meter when you submit a reading, with the display and the serial number both legible. A reading you can evidence is the difference between a correction and an argument.
The two payments
The generation payment is paid on everything the system produces. The export payment is paid on what you export or are deemed to export. Both are on the same statement, and both stop together at the end of your term, which is covered in what happens when your feed-in tariff ends. How the money reaches you and how often is in how the payments actually reach you.
The three checks
The readings, against your own photograph.
The rate, against the published table for your band and year. A figure that has changed is not necessarily a figure that is wrong.
The period. A payment covering a dark winter quarter is smaller for reasons that have nothing to do with the licensee.
We cannot read your statement for you, and no one who has not seen it can tell you whether a payment is right. What this site can give you is the rate that should apply to your band and year, which is the figure the rest of the statement is built on: the rate finder does that.
Statement contents and the payment rules are as published by Ofgem in its Feed-in Tariffs guidance for generators. Rates are from the Ofgem FIT tariff table for 2026-27. Information only, and not financial advice: your own figures are governed by your accreditation and your agreement with your FIT licensee.