Moving To A House With Solar Panels

Blog post friday 16 september 2016.

Moving to a house with solar panels.

Unless you have an enormous system you ll no longer be eligible for feed in tariff payments. If you stop using power in your house your panels are still making solar power so that extra power gets sent back to the energy grid for which you earn a feed in tariff. If you are moving into a house that has solar panels congratulations you have chosen a home which will provide you with low carbon and low running costs. What happens when you move into a house with solar panels depends on whether the system was purchased or leased.

Plus your solar pv system probably won t work as efficiently even when it is moved. We didn t and are having to go through a lot of red tape to show that we own them. For homeowners currently leasing solar panels contact the company you re leasing from about moving the equipment to your new location. The costs will be huge.

Either way you ll want to request the solar contract so you can review it before purchasing the home. If the system is leased you can either take over that lease or buy out the system. If you take the system with you you will also need to deal with the roof and fade damage discussed above. If it was purchased you should find out if the system s warranty is transferable.

Just one thing to be wary of when you move into a property with pre existing panels make sure that somewhere you have it in writing that you have bought the solar panels with the house if that is the case. Yes it is theoretically possible to move your solar panels but it probably wouldn t be worth your while. Solar installations owned by the homeowner bring serious value to a home. Moving into a home with solar panels.

Buying a house with solar panels in a lease ppa if the house you are interested in has a leased solar energy system it means that the current homeowner sends a monthly payment to the company that installed the panels. On average aussies move house every 7 years and with 1 in 5 aussie households now having solar panels on their roof it s no surprise that moving into a house with existing solar happens a lot. Moving house brings with it a mixed bag of emotions it s exciting but also stressful at the same time. In short when you lease you don t own the panels.

Before you buy you ll want to find out more information about the lease terms. Back to all posts. If you re looking to buy a house with solar the single most important question to ask is if the system was purchased by the homeowner or leased or financed through a ppa from a solar company see all options for buying solar panels. Leasing solar panels is a different story.