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Rent-a-roof PV installations.

Sparkingchip
A few days before Christmas I went to do some work at a house, I was under the stairs at the consumer unit and the customer was stood back in the hallway several metres away by the open front door, in the manner that things are now done.


I said “ I see you have solar panels”.


The customer replied “Yes, but the ###### things don’t work and the firm that owns them won’t repair them”.


I said “I presume they are on a Rent-a-roof scheme”.


“You’ve got it” replied the customer.


I was then working in the loft where the inverter is, but could not see an obvious quick fix, so just did what I was supposed to be doing up there and left the PV system well alone.


I wonder how many Rent-a-roof PV installations are not actually working anymore?


Andy Betteridge.

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    Sparkingchip:

    So, a Rent-a-roof company cannot claim payments on a PV system that doesn’t work?

    https://info.ambervalley.gov.uk/docarc/docviewer.aspx?docGuid=f481ccde32794bdb8f7493b1ff68f451


    As I understand it yes -  certainly I'm paid on the FIT according to what my generation meter clocks up (and if I miss a quarterly deadline for submitting a reading, as I did once, I get paid nothing for that quarter (although it does get carried forward to the next quarter so I wasn't out of pocket in the end)). As long as these companies are on the same kind of FIT scheme as the rest of us (and I know of no others) then if the kWh generated is zero, then payments will also be zero.

       -  Andy.


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    Sparkingchip:

    So, a Rent-a-roof company cannot claim payments on a PV system that doesn’t work?

    https://info.ambervalley.gov.uk/docarc/docviewer.aspx?docGuid=f481ccde32794bdb8f7493b1ff68f451


    As I understand it yes -  certainly I'm paid on the FIT according to what my generation meter clocks up (and if I miss a quarterly deadline for submitting a reading, as I did once, I get paid nothing for that quarter (although it does get carried forward to the next quarter so I wasn't out of pocket in the end)). As long as these companies are on the same kind of FIT scheme as the rest of us (and I know of no others) then if the kWh generated is zero, then payments will also be zero.

       -  Andy.


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