Bought a house with solar panels....
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Hi all, I moved into a house in June last year with solar panels. I am keen to take advantage of these as they were installed in 2011 so my understanding is that the Feed In Tariff is a very good one.
The contract is with EON for the panels. I called EON to get them transferred over to myself but have hit a brick wall as they tell me the previous owner has to request a transfer form. Unfortunately the previous owner has so far been unresponsive to my requests so I am seemingly at a dead loss. I can't believe that this is the only way it can be done?
Any help appreciated.
Andrew
The contract is with EON for the panels. I called EON to get them transferred over to myself but have hit a brick wall as they tell me the previous owner has to request a transfer form. Unfortunately the previous owner has so far been unresponsive to my requests so I am seemingly at a dead loss. I can't believe that this is the only way it can be done?
Any help appreciated.
Andrew
It was only mentioned on the Property Information Form. The questions were have solar panels been installed, in what year, are they owned outright and has a long lease been granted to a solar panel provider.
There is no mention of getting them transferred. I had wrongly assumed that it would just be a case of ringing them up and getting them transferred. I have all the completion certificates for the work etc so know it was done properly.
Andrew
There is no mention of getting them transferred. I had wrongly assumed that it would just be a case of ringing them up and getting them transferred. I have all the completion certificates for the work etc so know it was done properly.
Andrew
Fit a Tesla power wall and change the FIT meter for a regular one.
Stop the previous owner benefiting and start benefiting yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWLzlrGGuxQ
Stop the previous owner benefiting and start benefiting yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWLzlrGGuxQ
SystemParanoia said:
Fit a Tesla power wall and change the FIT meter for a regular one.
Stop the previous owner benefiting and start benefiting yourself.
The generation meter on which the FIT payments are based is an additional meter, and makes no difference to how the system runs. Stop the previous owner benefiting and start benefiting yourself.
The cost of a Tesla Powerwall will take approx 20 years to recover.
We went through this 6 months ago when we bought , panels were owned outright by previous owner and contract was with EON. To take over ownership of the panels we had to have some forms signed by previous owner and then fill in the other section as new owners along with current meter readings. The process was very easy and much akin to filling in the V5 when buying/selling a car. Without the previous owners doing so, you have no way to take over ownership and receive FIT.
Paul Drawmer said:
If the original FIT contract is with the previous owner, he will stop receiving payments unless he submits generation readings. Since you're not going to help him with that, he has nothing to gain by keeping the contract.
Does anyone come along & check those? The previous owner could any number in if he was going to be naughty about it.Fried paid for solar panels on a house he lost to the wife in the divorce. He still gets the FIT (few £00s per annumn), it was his nugget left in the financial seperation to remind her she hadn't quite got everything over him! He'd give them over when she asks, but as is the way she won't swallow her pride to ask. Whether she'll ever twig to stop him getting the meter readins remains to be seen but 3 years in and counting.
StanleyT said:
Fried paid for solar panels on a house he lost to the wife in the divorce. He still gets the FIT (few £00s per annumn), it was his nugget left in the financial seperation to remind her she hadn't quite got everything over him! He'd give them over when she asks, but as is the way she won't swallow her pride to ask. Whether she'll ever twig to stop him getting the meter readins remains to be seen but 3 years in and counting.
NiceRay Luxury-Yacht said:
Crikey. Your conveyancer dropped the ball with this one, didn't he?
Phone call to them first thing in the morning. Sounds messy though. Good luck.
This, the conveyancer dropped a bPhone call to them first thing in the morning. Sounds messy though. Good luck.
k but I think the OP did as well. A FIT can be worth up to £2k a year, when I bought my current house with solar panels I made sure I knew who owned the panels and where the FIT payments went to i.e. me.In the mean time you could just switch off the panels at the isolator coming from them, generation meter does not go up then previous owner gets nothing.
From my experience with my panels is if you have a standard hot water tank with an immersion heater then fit a solar Iboost, it diverts your surplus power during the day and heats your water, it provides all of my hot water needs all year round even up here in sunny Scotland.
Your generation meter still goes up so you get paid the FIT but you also maximize your use of power generated as you get paid for what you generate and not what you feed into the grid.
https://www.marlec.co.uk/product/solar-iboost/?v=4...
From my experience with my panels is if you have a standard hot water tank with an immersion heater then fit a solar Iboost, it diverts your surplus power during the day and heats your water, it provides all of my hot water needs all year round even up here in sunny Scotland.
Your generation meter still goes up so you get paid the FIT but you also maximize your use of power generated as you get paid for what you generate and not what you feed into the grid.
https://www.marlec.co.uk/product/solar-iboost/?v=4...
hkp57 said:
In the mean time you could just switch off the panels at the isolator coming from them, generation meter does not go up then previous owner gets nothing.
From my experience with my panels is if you have a standard hot water tank with an immersion heater then fit a solar Iboost, it diverts your surplus power during the day and heats your water, it provides all of my hot water needs all year round even up here in sunny Scotland.
Your generation meter still goes up so you get paid the FIT but you also maximize your use of power generated as you get paid for what you generate and not what you feed into the grid.
https://www.marlec.co.uk/product/solar-iboost/?v=4...
not obvious on their website, how much does it cost?From my experience with my panels is if you have a standard hot water tank with an immersion heater then fit a solar Iboost, it diverts your surplus power during the day and heats your water, it provides all of my hot water needs all year round even up here in sunny Scotland.
Your generation meter still goes up so you get paid the FIT but you also maximize your use of power generated as you get paid for what you generate and not what you feed into the grid.
https://www.marlec.co.uk/product/solar-iboost/?v=4...
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