Selling House with Solar PV

Fire_Fox

Only idiots resort to name calling to get their point across IMO. Plenty of alternative methods of reducing your carbon footprint - owning solar panels does not make it green or ethical to take regular foreign holidays, run a car or eat meat!

Milliewilly

anotherginger wrote: »

what an idiot. it's not just higher heating bills, its higher energy consumption, which means a higher carbon footprint.

IMO i would see solar panels as a selling point, especially PV. i guess you just need to get the right people viewing!

Also depends on whether you swallow the Government propaganda on Global warming or accept its natural climate change otherwise we would all still be walking around with Woolly Mammoths.

Why not throw your computer away to save energy - idiot?

anotherginger

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Only idiots resort to name calling to get their point across IMO. Plenty of alternative methods of reducing your carbon footprint - owning solar panels does not make it green or ethical to take regular foreign holidays, run a car or eat meat!

point taken, apologies!

i wasn't saying it was the only option, its one option, that has been taken by many people. the title of the thread talks about PVs which is why i highlighted that, and didn't go on to talk about foreign holidays, cars and veggies.

D_Hillage

You could always take the panels with you to your new house if you don't get a good deal. The cost of removal and reinstallation might be worth it, given that you would then be eligible for the higher feed in tariff.

John_Pierpoint

If the work is done by a certified installer.

Hermann

I think to qualify for the FIT payment new equipment needs to be installed throughout the installation ie no used parts!

The panels would need to be new MCS accredited ones so taking your old ones to a new house would mean you get paid no FIT as you would have not be installing new components but used ones.

stureid

kittie wrote: »

We are in process of looking at a house with PV and am expecting to receive 36p /unit for electricity put back into the grid. It is a new build so will attract the new rate of FIT (feed in tariff) I would not even contemplate now buying a property that is in elegible for the new rate, so older systems would add no attraction to me. Better to buy a property to which PV can be added and then the rate goes up to over 40p and will rise with inflation year on year

You could have the cable from the loft to the consumer unit installed during the build, then once the completion certificate has been issued have the solar PV system installed, making it a retrofit and eligible for 41.3p per kWh.