These Companies That "Lease" Your Roof For PV Cells?
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British gas have started a scheme where they lease your roof from you, fit PV cells & pay you for any electricity you don't use.
The cells are fitted for free, there are no fees, you just sign up for a 25 agreement, and hope if you want to sell the house that the prospevtive purchaser wants them.
Anybody any experience with this type of arragement, good or bad?
The cells are fitted for free, there are no fees, you just sign up for a 25 agreement, and hope if you want to sell the house that the prospevtive purchaser wants them.
Anybody any experience with this type of arragement, good or bad?
Defcon5 said:
TheDetailDoctor said:
SJobson said:
If you have a mortgage, I bet it's contrary to the T&Cs.
British Gas claim they sort everything out with the mortgage provider.Aren't the government paying for the installation in some way?
I guess because they look ugly on most houses as they weren't originally designed to be there by the architect (if that is important).
Defcon5 said:
Cogcog said:
I wonder what a subsequent buyer does if they don't want your 25 year deal?
But it gives then cheaper electric, and will cost them nothing to maintain - why wouldnt you want it?
We applied to a scheme being run in South Yorkshire - ashadegreener.co.uk
There website is quite specific that you must have a pitched south facing roof etc etc.
We do and after reading the T&C's we applied.
They do not pay you for electricity you don't use - all you get is cheaper electricty that you do use - anythign you don't use the scheme sells back to the grid - one of the way it makes money.
The other is the massive grants being offered via the gment to owners of multiple PV cells - the companies offering the schemes all are registered as the owners of them.
With regard to any damage etc the company promised that they woudl pay for any damage to roof etc.
So we stuck an application in - they didn't even bother coming out to look at the house - just check it on google earth - they told us our roof was too small for them to install enough panals on to make it worth their while.
Sister in law also applied - her house on google maps is pre extension so she put all of this on her application so they sent an inspector out to check out the size of her roof - nope stil too small.
So you need a big bloody roof to get anywhere!
There website is quite specific that you must have a pitched south facing roof etc etc.
We do and after reading the T&C's we applied.
They do not pay you for electricity you don't use - all you get is cheaper electricty that you do use - anythign you don't use the scheme sells back to the grid - one of the way it makes money.
The other is the massive grants being offered via the gment to owners of multiple PV cells - the companies offering the schemes all are registered as the owners of them.
With regard to any damage etc the company promised that they woudl pay for any damage to roof etc.
So we stuck an application in - they didn't even bother coming out to look at the house - just check it on google earth - they told us our roof was too small for them to install enough panals on to make it worth their while.
Sister in law also applied - her house on google maps is pre extension so she put all of this on her application so they sent an inspector out to check out the size of her roof - nope stil too small.
So you need a big bloody roof to get anywhere!
ShadownINja said:
Dan_1981 said:
The other is the massive grants being offered via the gment to owners of multiple PV cells - the companies offering the schemes all are registered as the owners of them.
That was it. Ta. It feels like the corporate version of a benefits "scam", really. Green technologies are currently fashionable for corporate benefits scams. I'm sure a lot of these schemes would be a really good place for the government to look for savings. Apparently crime syndicates are now jumping on this lucrative bandwagon too.
Actually reducing the number of government initiatives would be an excellent way of saving money.
CDP said:
ShadownINja said:
Dan_1981 said:
The other is the massive grants being offered via the gment to owners of multiple PV cells - the companies offering the schemes all are registered as the owners of them.
That was it. Ta. It feels like the corporate version of a benefits "scam", really. Green technologies are currently fashionable for corporate benefits scams. I'm sure a lot of these schemes would be a really good place for the government to look for savings. Apparently crime syndicates are now jumping on this lucrative bandwagon too.
Actually reducing the number of government initiatives would be an excellent way of saving money.
That charity/website thing rings a bell. One of my web designer contacts mentioned he was doing something like that and getting lots of "free" money from the government.
Edited by ShadownINja on Saturday 25th September 17:41
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