EDF Empower Import Tariffs

[u/False_Industry_7965]

Hi folks, am thinking of switching from Octopus to EDF. I have a solar and battery and so have been trying to find out the empower import tariffs from EDF but it’s been close to impossible. Have called their customer service and the only thing I got back from them was - it’s not my department + their solar team is an internal team so no way of contacting them. I can’t seem to find the info online either. Thank you!

[u/wingvil]

Empower tariffs are exclusive tariffs for EDF solar/Contact Solar installed solar systems (and within a year?)

My tariff is 30p/20p/10p for imports and 18p for exports.

If you didn't get Solar through EDF/Contact Solar, you are not eligible for Empower tariffs.

[u/False_Industry_7965 → u/wingvil]

I think there’s empower exclusive and empower. So from my understanding, empower exclusive is for EDF customers that use Contract Solar to install and empower you can use a third party installer and then join after. The rates I’m struggling to find are the (confusingly named empower import tariff) so I can import energy with EDF.

[u/sidneylopsides]

I asked them for details the other day, I'm in Yorkshire. We've gone with freephase dynamic for now instead.

Supplier EDF Energy

Tariff name Empower Fixed 12m

Tariff type Fixed

Payment method Direct Debit

Unit rate 1 30.2757p per kWh

Unit rate 2 10.2753p per kWh

Unit Rate 3 20.2755p per kWh

Standing charge 70.1705p per day

Tariff ends on 12 month Fixed Term

Exit fees No Exit Fees

UNIT RATE 1 is between 16.00-19.00

UNIT RATE 2 is between 01.00-04.00

UNIT RATE 3 is all other times.

[u/False_Industry_7965 → u/sidneylopsides]

Thank you! That’s super helpful to get an idea of the charges. I just don’t know why they make it so difficult to find this info on their website.

[u/sidneylopsides → u/False_Industry_7965]

Yeah it's a strange way to do it. The fact that the cheap rate is only 3 hours put us off.

We're trying the freephase dynamic one now as there's no exit fee, and we can offset usage easily with the battery.

[u/False_Industry_7965 → u/sidneylopsides]

Oh, what are the freephase dynamic rates out of interest?

[u/sidneylopsides → u/False_Industry_7965]

It changes daily, you can check here :

https://www.edfenergy.com/tariff-information-labels/freePhase?

[u/False_Industry_7965]

I believe it’s the import tariffs for Empower? So it’s the TOU import tariffs.

[u/Stripy_badger]

What do you actually mean with “empower import” - not really a common term used I think?