Net Billing in Cyprus: what it means for your electricity bill
Under Net Billing, exported solar energy is credited at a much lower rate than imported electricity costs. Here is why self-consumption now defines whether solar pays off.
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All new solar installations in Cyprus operate under the Net Billing scheme. The principle is simple, but it changes everything about good system design.
Under the older net metering logic, every exported kWh was worth the same as one consumed. That is no longer true.
A system sized to flood the grid with cheap exports delivers a poor return; a system sized to your real consumption delivers a strong one. This is the single most important idea in Cyprus solar today, and the foundation of how we design.
Every kilowatt-hour you generate and use yourself is one you do not buy at the full import rate.
We start from your EAC bills, not your roof area, so you do not pay for capacity that simply exports cheaply.
A correctly designed system can accept battery storage later, when it makes sense for you.
We show the self-consumption share we assumed and how we calculated it, so the numbers refer to your home.
Net Billing without a battery suits properties that consume a good share of electricity during daylight hours:
If most of your consumption happens after sunset, we will usually recommend battery storage too, since a solar-only system would export much of its production at the low credit rate. We tell you honestly which case you fall into during the assessment.
Under Net Billing, exported solar energy is credited at a much lower rate than imported electricity costs. Here is why self-consumption now defines whether solar pays off.
Read article →Bigger is not better under Net Billing. How we calculate the right size from your actual bills, and why oversizing wastes money.
Read article →Payback depends on your tariff, your self-consumption share and your system cost. The framework we use, with transparent assumptions you can challenge.
Read article →Common questions, answered