What does dimming earn you?

Do you live in an area where your grid operator has solar panels dimmed? Then you receive compensation for the generation that is dimmed. Whether this applies to your address, you see during sign-up right after entering your postcode and house number. That’s also where you see the compensation and give permission to dim on behalf of your grid operator.

How often and how long we dim depends on the weather forecast and the expected electricity use in the region. It mostly happens on days with low consumption, such as weekends and public holidays, around midday when the sun is strongest.

With a dynamic contract, we switch your panels off in the quarter-hours when your electricity price is negative. Everything you use then comes from the grid at that negative price. As soon as the price is positive again, we switch your installation back to full power.

To calculate your price we take your energy supplier’s surcharge, net metering and taxes into account. You set yourself whether your feed-in in 2026 still falls under net metering. That’s the case if you use more than you feed in over the year.

Energy suppliers sometimes want to limit feed-in too. For example at negative market prices, when consumption deviates from the forecast, or in quarter-hours with unexpectedly high feed-in (imbalance).

In the app you can already give permission to dim on behalf of your energy supplier. We’re in talks with most Dutch suppliers to make dimming solar panels part of smart energy contracts after net metering ends in 2027.