Solar Panel Ownership

macman

You don't need to prove ownership: you just need to demonstrate that that roof has not been made the subject of a 25 year lease, which should then show up on the LR data.
If the panels were leased, the vendor's income from them would have been zero: the only saving to him would be the proportion of generation output he can use directly.

Reed_Richards

macman said:

You don't need to prove ownership: you just need to demonstrate that that roof has not been made the subject of a 25 year lease, which should then show up on the LR data.

So by the absence of a lease you can prove that you don't not own them.  It's a rather subtle distinction - but the advice to consult the Land Registry data is good.

MWT

Reed_Richards said:

macman said:

You don't need to prove ownership: you just need to demonstrate that that roof has not been made the subject of a 25 year lease, which should then show up on the LR data.

So by the absence of a lease you can prove that you don't not own them.  It's a rather subtle distinction - but the advice to consult the Land Registry data is good.

Not quite, you only prove that nobody has registered their interest at the LR, which isn't quite the same thing.

Many of the 'rent-a-roof' companies were set-up and liquidated rather quickly and often disposed of the FiT rights to a '3rd party' in the process, often without properly recording the lease at the LR.

Tracing the FiT is the best way to show that it hasn't been assigned to anyone else...

Mister_G

macman said:

NB: unless the vendor was lying, they are not under a rent a roof scheme, because if so he would not have been receiving £100 a month in FITs! That figure is anyway highly dubious, even if it's a 3.4kW array.

Not sure about that.  We're talking about 6 years ago when the FITs were worth having.  My 3kWp array pays about £1800pa in FITs.

tim_p

Mister_G said:

macman said:

NB: unless the vendor was lying, they are not under a rent a roof scheme, because if so he would not have been receiving £100 a month in FITs! That figure is anyway highly dubious, even if it's a 3.4kW array.

Not sure about that.  We're talking about 6 years ago when the FITs were worth having.  My 3kWp array pays about £1800pa in FITs.

Not from 6 years ago it doesn’t, for a 3kWp array you’re talking a few more years ago than 2015.  My 4kWp array pays £7-800 per year and that’s late 2014. 

Mister_G

Yes, I must admit mine is from 2011! 

However, we do not know when the OP's were originally installed.