E.ON Next Smart Export Guarantee rates: Flex Export, Export Exclusive and Export Premium

What E.ON Next pays for the electricity your panels send back, who is allowed each rate, and what E.ON Next says you need to apply. Read from its own page, with how it compares to every other supplier we track. Nobody is going to ring you.

Figures on this page last checked 24 October 2026. Each carries its own receipt with its own date.

E.ON Next pays three household export rates: Next Flex Export for anyone, Next Export Exclusive for its own import customers who are not on a time-of-use tariff, and Next Export Premium for systems E.ON installed. It asks for more paperwork than most and says so up front, which is better than finding out halfway: six documents, listed below.

E.ON Next's export tariffs

• Next Flex Export v1. E.ON Next's rate for anyone, new or existing customers, whoever supplies their electricity.
• Next Export Exclusive v3. E.ON Next's fixed customer rate. Not available alongside their time-of-use import tariffs.
• Next Export Premium v3. For systems E.ON fitted, on E.ON Next supply.

How E.ON Next compares with every other supplier

We keep every supplier's export rates in one table, each read from that supplier's own page. Here is where E.ON Next's rates sit in it, group by group, because a rate only means something against the others you could actually have.

• Next Flex Export v1, 6p/kWh. Joint 2nd of 14 single rates in the tier “Open to anyone”. The top of that tier pays 13p/kWh, 7p/kWh more: Fuse Energy's Single Rate Variable Export.
• Next Export Exclusive v3, 13p/kWh. Joint 1st of 10 single rates in the tier “For that supplier's electricity customers”. No single rate in that tier pays more; EDF's Export 12m V2 matches it.
• Next Export Premium v3, 17.5p/kWh. 4th of 5 single rates in the tier “Where that supplier installed the system”. The top of that tier pays 25p/kWh, 7.5p/kWh more: Good Energy's Solar Savings Exclusive.

The ranks and the differences in pence are our comparison from the table as we last read it, not figures E.ON Next publishes. Rows paying the same rate share a place. Time-of-use and wholesale-linked tariffs anywhere in the table are left out of the ranking, because they have no single rate to rank. The rate open to anyone runs from 2p/kWh to 13p/kWh across the whole table.

What a rate is worth in years depends on the rest of the sum. The payback period page shows how far the export rate alone moves it for one example house, with every input linked.

What you need before you apply

As E.ON Next's own pages put it, in our words:

• You own the system, or have the owner's permission.
• A system up to 5MW, certified under MCS or Flexi-Orb.
• A smart export meter, and your consent for E.ON Next to collect half-hourly data.
• No SEG payments from anyone else, and a willingness to opt out of, or lose, any Feed-in Tariff export payments.
• For Next Export Exclusive v3: an E.ON Next import tariff that is not time-of-use (Economy 7 and Economy 10 do not count as time-of-use here), on a home system up to 15kW.
• For Next Export Premium v3: solar or a battery installed by E.ON Installation Services from 10 November 2025, on a home system up to 15kW. One per property, no renewals.
• Installed by E.ON or Eco2Solar before 1 October 2024: E.ON Next says you may be due a different rate, and to check your install quote.

How to apply, as E.ON Next describes it

1. Gather the six documents E.ON Next lists: your MCS or Flexi-Orb certificate; proof of address, if E.ON Next neither supplies you nor installed the system; a photo of your smart or export meter showing its serial number, make, model and export reading; a schematic diagram if you have a battery; the approval or acceptance letter from your network operator, not the notification form; and, in Scottish Power Energy Networks areas, the G98 or G99 application form.
2. In Scottish Power Energy Networks areas, your installer has to ask the network operator for your export MPAN. E.ON Next says it cannot request it for you.
3. Fill in E.ON Next's SEG application form online.
4. E.ON Next says demand is high and applications are taking longer than usual, and that it will send an update within a few weeks.

You apply on E.ON Next's own site. We do not take applications, we do not ask for your details, and nobody pays us for sending you there.

Is E.ON Next obliged to offer this?

Ofgem lists E.ON Next Energy Limited as a mandatory SEG licensee for 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027. Ofgem publishes which suppliers have told it they are taking part in the Smart Export Guarantee each year. The big ones have no choice: a supplier with enough household customers must offer a tariff. Smaller ones can volunteer.

Ofgem's rule is that your export payments, your electricity supply and your gas supply can each be with a different company. So you can take an open-to-anyone export tariff from one supplier and keep buying your electricity from another. The catch is in the table: the higher rates are mostly reserved for that supplier's own customers, so switching your export alone gets you the open tier.

The same page for other suppliers: Octopus, ScottishPower, British Gas and EDF.

Questions people actually ask

Where to go next

• Export rates: what each supplier pays for your exported power.
• Payback: how long the panels take to pay for themselves.
• Solar panel cost: what a solar system costs.
• All the figures Hearthsum keeps: the hub, with every page on it.