Previous placed electronics not upgrading tiers

I noticed that I am having to /remove large battery, solar panel & wind mill and place it back down to kick on an upgraded tier.  How do I get this to apply automatically to pre-existing electronics?

You do not need to pick up the items, when you get assigned the permission it automatically applies the correct settings to all power entities owned by that player.

Yes, it used to do that, but it seems like it is not working like that anymore.  It worked as you described for a long time but suddenly not anymore.  

I will be taking a look at the plugin properly later tonight after work.

Ok thank you