Do solar panels still pay off without net metering?
Usually yes, but less than with net metering. Solar power you use yourself saves the full electricity rate. For electricity you feed back, from 2027 you only get the feed-in compensation, minus any feed-in costs.
What panels earn then depends mainly on how much of their power you use yourself. An ordinary household without a battery often uses 30 to 40 percent itself; the rest goes to the grid. The higher this self-consumption, the more the panels earn.
How to get more out of them
Use electricity during the day when the sun shines, charge the electric car on surplus solar when it is at home, or look into a home battery. A dynamic contract can help if you shift consumption to cheap hours; feeding back at midday then often earns little.
Yield for your roof
The calculator gets the yield for your location, orientation and tilt from PVGIS of the European Commission, and calculates every hour of a year. You can also enter the measured generation from your inverter's app.
Calculate what your solar panels earn
An estimate, not personal advice. How the calculator works: How does this calculator work?
Other questions
- Does a home battery pay off?
- What changes when net metering ends?
- Fixed or dynamic contract: which is cheaper?
- What is a dynamic energy contract?
- Is a dynamic contract smart with solar panels?
- How do I compare dynamic energy contracts?
- What are the risks of a dynamic contract?
- Does a dynamic contract pay off with an electric car?
- What are feed-in costs?
- What will the end of net metering cost me?
- Should I cancel my fixed contract before net metering ends?
- Does a home battery make sense without solar panels?
- Should I switch off my solar panels when power prices are negative?
- Does it pay to charge the electric car on solar power?
- Does a heat pump suit a dynamic contract?
- How do I read my annual electricity statement?
- What is a feed-in tariff?
- How much of my solar power do I use myself?
- Battery, charger, heat pump or another contract: what first?
- How big should my home battery be?
- Does a home battery make sense with a fixed contract?
- Plug-in battery or fixed home battery?
- How much energy does a home battery lose?
- Is electricity cheap at night with a dynamic contract?
- What does a home battery do in winter?
- How much electricity do I use at night?
- Does a home battery suit a heat pump?
- Which energy comparison site can I trust?
- How do I calculate the payback time of a home battery?
- What do time-dependent network tariffs mean for me?