Solar Panel Company dissolved

Dyzi0

Few years back I went up getting free solar panels. In the sense of I using whatever they producing at the minute and anything else that I don’t use goes back to grid and company take all profits in from feed in tarrif. However I just realise that company who have installed those panels have dissolved based on information from GOV website company search. This was back in 2017.

Now I am unsure who’s got full ownership of those panels. Am I full owner of them now and am I allowed to take all profits from feed in tariff or is there unknown person who still gets all the money.

Is there anywhere I can find this information from as panels did not have health check and stuff like that for over 4 years now.

Verdigris

The installation company may not be the panel owners. You must have signed something to lease your roof to the panel owners (unless you are a tenant and the landlord did this). Is anybody reading the FiT meter, or is it one that sends readings automatically? I'm fairly certain the panel owners would send somebody to repair them, if they stopped generating.

EricMears

Verdigris said:

I'm fairly certain the panel owners would send somebody to repair them, if they stopped generating.

If you were to 'accidentally' switch off supply to inverter,  you'd soon find out if they had an owner ! 

Dyzi0

Verdigris said:

The installation company may not be the panel owners. You must have signed something to lease your roof to the panel owners (unless you are a tenant and the landlord did this). Is anybody reading the FiT meter, or is it one that sends readings automatically? I'm fairly certain the panel owners would send somebody to repair them, if they stopped generating.

Sorry I typed it wrongly I meant company who I signed lease with got dissolved but also company who installed did too but last year.

Merlin139

Panels don't require health checks. Only time you need to do anything is if they stop producing or develop a fault. 

What paperwork did you sign when they were installed?

You could try contacting ofgem to find out who is receiving your FIT.

FITRegister@Ofgem.gov.uk

Verdigris

Or if the company went into administration, the adminstrator will have sold the assets on to somebody else. Does the company search name the administrator, if any?

QrizB

Dyzi0 said:

Now I am unsure who’s got full ownership of those panels. Am I full owner of them now and am I allowed to take all profits from feed in tariff or is there unknown person who still gets all the money.

Depending on the contract you signed, you might always have been the full owner of the system.

The FIT payments will have been an asset of the company that owned them. The contract will almost certainly have been sold to someone else.

Is there anywhere I can find this information from as panels did not have health check and stuff like that for over 4 years now.

As others have mentioned, panels don't generally need health checks or maintenance. If any attention is required, you (or the FIT owner) will notice the reduced output.

Hexane

Never pay anyone anything for "health checks" or for changes that someone tells you are needed after a "health check".

WallySenior

It’s a night mare as if you want a mortgage you can’t get one when the company is dissolved. I have found the liquidator and the solicitors who were the last registered owners but still I can’t progress unless I spend £5000 and then the outcome is not guaranteed

Spies

Just apply for SEG with your current supplier  and that will cancel the fit payments 

QrizB

Spies said:

Just apply for SEG with your current supplier  and that will cancel the fit payments 

That's one way to make the owners get in touch!

WallySenior said:

It’s a night mare as if you want a mortgage you can’t get one when the company is dissolved. I have found the liquidator and the solicitors who were the last registered owners but still I can’t progress unless I spend £5000 and then the outcome is not guaranteed

Who is asking you for £5k? You have a contract with the rent-a-roof owner, whoever they happen to be now. Why aren't they adhering to it?