Solar Panel Fit Payments

If your installation was fitted after 15 july 2009 and has a declared net capacity of 50kw or under it must be mcs accredited to qualify for fit payments.

Solar panel fit payments.

Important information about fits closure and future applications. If you re moving into a property with a renewable heating system already accredited to the domestic renewable heat incentive rhi scheme and you want to take over the domestic rhi payments from the previous owner you have 12 months from the date of sale of the property and renewable heating system to apply to the scheme. To see if solar panels are worth getting in the meantime see solar panels are they worth it. When a property with a solar installation is sold the equipment and the associated fit payments are sold along with the home.

With up to 15 000 paid for well performing systems if you sell your solar you could pay for new home improvements a wedding education costs or an amazing holiday. However unlike the fit scheme which paid households for all electricity they generated and exported the new seg rules will only provide payments for the electricity you export. For more information on the fit scheme see our about the fit scheme page. So the solar panels have to stay put on the roof.

The company that pays your subsidy is known as your fit licensee and they don t need to be the same as your energy supplier. So switching energy supplier with solar panels doesn t need to affect your fit contract at all. Fit payments are made based on meter readings taken from compliant metering and submitted to the elected fit licensee. The scheme closed to new applicants at the end of march 2019.

This is called a feed in tariff fit. Solar panels will most likely be classified as fixtures and in normal circumstances would be included in the house sale. This is part of the government funded feed in tariff fit program and is an element of the uk s overall effort in meeting eu 2020 renewable obligations targets. Under the new rules payments won t start until 1 january.

The feed in tariff fit scheme offered cash payments to households that produced their own electricity using renewable technologies such as solar pv panels or wind turbines. For more information see fit licensee contact details. You can have separate contracts for your energy supply and your fit payments.