We bought a house in march that has the rent a roof solar panels fitted.
Rent a roof solar panel scheme.
The cost would have been a prohibitive 12 000 so she signed a deal to lease part of her roof to a solar power.
Solar pv panels are expensive.
J ulie griffiths wanted to reduce her carbon footprint by installing solar panels.
Can buy out the scheme.
But with the feed in tariffs now available they can be an attractive investment.
Free solar schemes also known as rent a roof schemes provide free electricity generating solar panels to householders.
On trying to remortgage the property the new mortgage lender highlighted that the solar lease was no longer compliant and asked anesco to provide a deed of variation to make the lease cml.
Known as the rent a roof scheme a growing number of companies are offering to fit and maintain solar panels on your roof for free.
We bought a property with an existing solar panel lease rent a roof with homesun now administered by anesco.
The introduction of feed in tariffs fit in april 2010 led to a large number of companies offering customers free solar pv panels which are often referred to as rent a roof schemes with the solar panel owner simply renting the roof space from the customer.
In 2010 when the government first launched their feed in tariff funding for solar panels the tariff payments were so generous that many installers were happy to offer free solar panels through a rent a roof scheme.
Rent a roof scheme.
The risks of rent a roof schemes and free solar panels.
The householder benefits from the free electricity while the company installing the panel keeps the cash usually earned by the householder from the government s feed in tariff which pays people for generating their.
We re now 7 years into a 25 year lease.
And some companies and groups are interested in helping you to take advantage of the opportunity.
Would make much sense if you used one of the rent a roof companies to put a panel up for you.
Ours are from a shade greener and we had no problems other than ensuring the mortgage company would lend on a house with rent a roof scheme that the company who owned them was up to the standards required and we had a bit of delay while the solicitors got all the info and paperwork signed over to us.
So you might be offered a solar panel for free in exchange for the feed in tariff income.
Thanks to rising energy prices more and more people are looking to invest in solar energy as a way of saving money and reducing their energy bills making the prospect of free solar all the more tempting.