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 28 September 2026. Each carries its own receipt with its own date.
Rates as of 28 September 2026. Read from E.ON Next's own page (www.eonnext.com/electricity-and-gas/smart-export-guarantee). If a rate here disagrees with E.ON Next's page today, E.ON Next's page wins.
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.
| Tariff | Rate | Who can get it | Fixed or variable | Group | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Next Flex Export v1 | 6p/kWh | Anyone | Variable | Open to anyone | 2026-09-28 |
| Next Export Exclusive v3 | 13p/kWh | E.ON Next electricity customers not on a time-of-use tariff | Fixed, 12 months | For that supplier's electricity customers | 2026-09-28 |
| Next Export Premium v3 | 17.5p/kWh | E.ON installed the system, E.ON Next customer, 15 kW or less | Fixed, 12 months | Where that supplier installed the system | 2026-09-28 |
6p/kWh
pence per kWh exported
The source page carries no date. Read 28 September 2026.
13p/kWh
pence per kWh exported
The source page carries no date. Read 28 September 2026.
17.5p/kWh
pence per kWh exported
The source page carries no date. Read 28 September 2026.
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.
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.
As E.ON Next's own pages put it, in our words:
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.
Three household export tariffs: Next Flex Export for anyone, Next Export Exclusive for E.ON Next import customers not on time-of-use, Next Export Premium where E.ON installed the system
supplier page summary
The source page carries no date. Read 28 September 2026.
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.
Mandatory SEG licensees: British Gas Trading Limited; E (Gas and Electricity) Ltd; E.ON Next Energy Limited; EDF Energy Customers Limited; Electricity Plus Supply Limited (trading as Utility Warehouse); Foxglove Energy Supply Limited; Fuse Energy Supply Limited; Octopus Energy Limited; OVO Electricity Ltd; ScottishPower Energy Retail Limited; So Energy Trading Limited; Utilita Energy Limited. Voluntary: Pozitive Energy Ltd; Ruby Electricity Ltd; Smart Pay Energy Ltd; Voltx Power Ltd
suppliers that told Ofgem they are SEG licensees for the SEG year
Covers 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027.
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.
You can use one company for export payments and another for your electricity supply
scheme rule
The source page carries no date. Read 28 September 2026.
The same page for other suppliers: Octopus, ScottishPower, British Gas and EDF.
Next Flex Export pays 6p/kWh, variable, to anyone. Next Export Exclusive v3 pays 13p/kWh, fixed for 12 months, to E.ON Next import customers who are not on a time-of-use tariff. Next Export Premium v3 pays 17.5p/kWh, fixed for 12 months, where E.ON installed the solar or battery.
Yes. E.ON Next's page says you can have different suppliers for your electricity and your SEG payments, and Next Flex Export is open to new and existing customers. That gets you 6p/kWh. The fixed Next Export Exclusive rate of 13p/kWh needs E.ON Next import supply.
No. E.ON Next excludes its time-of-use import tariffs, and names Next Drive. Economy 7 and Economy 10 do not count as time-of-use for this rule, so those can pair with Next Export Exclusive v3.
Six, by E.ON Next's own list: your MCS or Flexi-Orb certificate, proof of address if it neither supplies you nor installed the system, a photo of your export meter, a schematic if you have a battery, your network operator's approval or acceptance letter, and the G98 or G99 form in Scottish Power Energy Networks areas.
E.ON Next replaced it with Next Export Premium v3 on 10 November 2025. Its page says that if you received your installation quote before then, you may be eligible for the earlier rate, and that it checks your quote automatically when you apply.