The cost would have been a prohibitive 12 000 so she signed a deal to lease part of her roof to a solar power.
Rent a roof solar panel scheme.
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 re now 7 years into a 25 year lease.
More reasons to steer clear of rent a roof solar electricity deals.
And some companies and groups are interested in helping you to take advantage of the opportunity.
This suited many home owners as the average cost of a 4kw solar system was over 15 000.
But with the feed in tariffs now available they can be an attractive investment.
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.
J ulie griffiths wanted to reduce her carbon footprint by installing solar panels.
Free solar schemes also known as rent a roof schemes provide free electricity generating solar panels to householders.
Solar pv panels are expensive.
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.
Can buy out the scheme.
Rent a roof scheme.
Would make much sense if you used one of the rent a roof companies to put a panel up for you.
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.
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 bought a property with an existing solar panel lease rent a roof with homesun now administered by anesco.
However under a rent a roof scheme payments are made not to the residential property owner instead it is the installer of the system who owns it and the payment will go to them and not the property owner.
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.
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.