Energy

Watchdog tells energy firms to pay solar households for powering grid

Electricity companies are legally obliged to make the payments to energy-generating households, farms and businesses since last month

Solar panels: owners of the power-generating panels have been hit by rising electricity prices, but denied the income they need to reduce their electricity bills

The electricity watchdog is putting pressure on energy companies to start paying around 11,000 solar panel owners for the free power they are providing at a time of soaring electricity prices.

Electricity companies are legally obliged to make the payments since last month, but some of them have still failed to give any date for doing so.

Solar panel owners have been hit by rising electricity prices, but denied the income they need to reduce ...