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New Build House

Can anyone help me? My girlfriend and I are waiting to move into our new house, a new build, that will be ready for the end of April. The house has solar panels on the roof.

Because of the delay in the building schedule I had to sell my house and am currently living with my Mother so I no longer have an energy contract that I can switch to a new supplier. Am I limited in the number of companies I can go with? And would it be possible to sign up through the Energy Club despite not having a current supplier? With some of the deals closing soon, would it be possible to sign up with those deals now and not start until we move in?
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  • dogshome
    dogshome Posts: 3,878 Forumite
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    edited 20 February 2019 at 4:01PM
    I'm afraid that when you do move into the 'new' house, you are obliged to contact whatever Gas/Electric supplier the builders has signed up with, and give them the date of occupation and the meter readings


    Only when you have established an account with them, are you free to Switch to another supplier
    It's exactly the same procedure as any other housemove
  • ajbell
    ajbell Posts: 1,151 Forumite
    Are the panels registered in the FIT scheme?.
    FIT scheme ends March 31st.
    4kWp, South facing, 16 x phono solar panels, Solis inverter, Lincolnshire.
  • Tbh energy prices are crashing due to the warm winter, prices will only be going down.

    Accept for of course if you're with the big 6...
  • ajbell wrote: »
    Are the panels registered in the FIT scheme?.
    FIT scheme ends March 31st.

    Who knows......

    I haven't been able to get a straight answer to date from the house builder. In fairness to them the solar panels weren't on the spec when we paid our deposit. It was added to the spec along with a combi boiler afterwards at no cost as it was a condition of the planning consent.
  • Mister_G
    Mister_G Posts: 1,953 Forumite
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    Are these water heating panels rather than electricity ones?
  • wavelets
    wavelets Posts: 1,164 Forumite
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    Stuart_D wrote: »
    Who knows......

    I haven't been able to get a straight answer to date from the house builder. In fairness to them the solar panels weren't on the spec when we paid our deposit. It was added to the spec along with a combi boiler afterwards at no cost as it was a condition of the planning consent.

    This is something your solicitor is being paid loadsamoney to sort out.

    Get a new solicitor to sort out your solicitor if there is a failure to provide you the service you are paying for.
  • ajbell
    ajbell Posts: 1,151 Forumite
    The FIT payments will need to be registered with you not the builders if it is FIT registered at all.
    4kWp, South facing, 16 x phono solar panels, Solis inverter, Lincolnshire.
  • wavelets wrote: »
    This is something your solicitor is being paid loadsamoney to sort out.

    Get a new solicitor to sort out your solicitor if there is a failure to provide you the service you are paying for.

    Fair point, I'll do that now. Thanks
  • Mister_G wrote: »
    Are these water heating panels rather than electricity ones?

    No. It's definitely electricity generating.
  • Mister_G
    Mister_G Posts: 1,953 Forumite
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    Stuart_D wrote: »
    No. It's definitely electricity generating.

    OK then, as advised above, get them registered before the deadline. You will need the MCS certificate, which I assume the builder will have obtained?
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