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national incentive or export payment scheme", "status": "stated", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31", "quote": "The SEG requires some electricity suppliers, known as SEG Licensees, to pay small-scale generators, known as SEG Generators, for low-carbon electricity which they export back to the National Grid", "text_sha256": "45df9ccf1a32fa09a099ab8299a178c312bd76ca7b2021148b7ce23911b642aa" }, { "subject": "Ofgem Smart Export Guarantee", "url": "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-and-social-schemes/smart-export-guarantee-seg", "document": "About the SEG", "question": "effect", "answer": "describes", "answer_text": "describes a programme without a record rule", "status": "stated", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31", "quote": "SEG Licensees determine the rate, contract length and other terms which SEG Generators will receive.", "text_sha256": "45df9ccf1a32fa09a099ab8299a178c312bd76ca7b2021148b7ce23911b642aa" }, { "subject": "Ofgem Smart Export Guarantee", "url": "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-and-social-schemes/smart-export-guarantee-seg", "document": "About the SEG", "question": "what_it_says", "answer": "stated", "answer_text": "SEG payments are calculated by using export meter readings.", "status": "stated", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31", "quote": "SEG payments are calculated by using export meter readings.", "text_sha256": "45df9ccf1a32fa09a099ab8299a178c312bd76ca7b2021148b7ce23911b642aa" }, { "subject": "Ofgem Smart Export Guarantee", "url": "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-and-social-schemes/smart-export-guarantee-seg/smart-export-guarantee-seg-generators", "document": "SEG for generators", "question": "concern", "answer": "incentive", "answer_text": "a state or national incentive or export payment scheme", "status": "stated", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31", "quote": "SEG licensees must offer a SEG tariff to all eligible generators.", "text_sha256": "cd7c25cb04dbc210f83e6c6859fbac408e350dce6a59d2fd7cc1b8f67e8dcd71" }, { "subject": "Ofgem Smart Export Guarantee", "url": "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-and-social-schemes/smart-export-guarantee-seg/smart-export-guarantee-seg-generators", "document": "SEG for generators", "question": "effect", "answer": "describes", "answer_text": "describes a programme without a record rule", "status": "stated", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31", "quote": "All generators who wish to receive payment for the electricity which they export back to the National Grid will need to apply to a SEG licensee", "text_sha256": "cd7c25cb04dbc210f83e6c6859fbac408e350dce6a59d2fd7cc1b8f67e8dcd71" }, { "subject": "Ofgem Smart Export Guarantee", "url": "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-and-social-schemes/smart-export-guarantee-seg/smart-export-guarantee-seg-generators", "document": "SEG for generators", "question": "what_it_says", "answer": "stated", "answer_text": "There are five eligible low-carbon technology types for the SEG.", "status": "stated", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31", 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For every text, three questions were answered from its own words: what the provision is about, what it does to the installer's records, what it says, in its own words. Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the text read does not address the question. A provision with several texts reads 'varies' where they disagree. 12 provisions, 13 texts.", "embed": "
3 of 12 provisions we read make a solar installer keep or create a record, newest read 31 October 2026.
The rules that made a solar installer keep its records, sellsolardatatoai.com
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