Feed in Tariff

MarkiePoos

Hi, we moved into a house which has solar panels on. We never switched them back on for a while due to having a lot of work done to the house. I tried this week to sort out the feed in tariff with Utility Warehouse who the feed in tariff is with but they keep insisting that I have to open an electricity and gas account with them so I can get paid the FiT payments. I do not want to open an electricity account with them as I’m happy with EON and don’t want to move companies is there anything I can do??

Kind Regards Mark

QrizB

MarkiePoos said:

Hi, we moved into a house ...

This was a house purchase?

I do not want to open an electricity account with them as I’m happy with EON and don’t want to move companies is there anything I can do??

As part of your house purchase, you should have obtained all the paperwork for the FIT and it should have been transferred into your name by the seller. If this is what happened, you will already have a FIT account with UW. You just need to give them a meter reading.
If you didn't get all the paperwork with the house, and didn't transfer the FIT, you've got a fair bit of work to do including contacting the seller (who will still be the registered recipient of the FIT payments).

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MarkiePoos said:

Hi, we moved into a house which has solar panels on. We never switched them back on for a while due to having a lot of work done to the house. I tried this week to sort out the feed in tariff with Utility Warehouse who the feed in tariff is with but they keep insisting that I have to open an electricity and gas account with them so I can get paid the FiT payments. I do not want to open an electricity account with them as I’m happy with EON and don’t want to move companies is there anything I can do??

Kind Regards Mark

I think that there is a deal of confusion here which as @QuizB has said should have been dealt with by your solicitor. When I sold my property with panels about 3 years ago, I agreed with the purchaser's solicitor that I would provide a signed FIT Transfer form. All the purchaser had to do was fill in the generation meter reading and put the form in the post to the FIT payer. At the time of my sale, EDF Energy was the FIT payer and Octopus Energy was the deemed supplier. As I stopped getting my 3 monthly FIT payments, I can only assume that my purchaser is now in receipt of these payments.

Export and supply contracts are separate for a number of reasons: a key one being that the homeowner can switch suppliers and leave the export/FIT contract with the original FIT payer. FIT contracts can be transferred to a new energy company but it is hassle for no financial gain.

Zufre

Have similar issue with UW. Having moved in 2 years ago almost to the day, I finally got a letter from UW today, after dozens or phonecalls, emails and being ghosted by UW. The seller never transferred the panels to my name, but eventually I managed to get them in my name (In April!). 
From the letter they sent am not even sure what the different rates mean. They mention an Generation & Export Tariff, but over the phone they said I would only get 3.97pence per kW. Surely I also get the Generation rate per kW.
Am hoping that I can get this contract going with UW (without them providing my energy) and once they have caught up with the 2 years of payments, I move to Octopus, who tell me they can keep the contract at FIT rates. 
Being totally new to this rather complex jungle could the Forumites please advise? 
Many thanks. 

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Zufre said:

Have similar issue with UW. Having moved in 2 years ago almost to the day, I finally got a letter from UW today, after dozens or phonecalls, emails and being ghosted by UW. The seller never transferred the panels to my name, but eventually I managed to get them in my name (In April!). 
From the letter they sent am not even sure what the different rates mean. They mention an Generation & Export Tariff, but over the phone they said I would only get 3.97pence per kW. Surely I also get the Generation rate per kW.
Am hoping that I can get this contract going with UW (without them providing my energy) and once they have caught up with the 2 years of payments, I move to Octopus, who tell me they can keep the contract at FIT rates. 
Being totally new to this rather complex jungle could the Forumites please advise? 
Many thanks. 

When were the panels installed? The FIT Scheme for solar ended a few years ago.

Ectophile

Zufre said:

Have similar issue with UW. Having moved in 2 years ago almost to the day, I finally got a letter from UW today, after dozens or phonecalls, emails and being ghosted by UW. The seller never transferred the panels to my name, but eventually I managed to get them in my name (In April!). 
From the letter they sent am not even sure what the different rates mean. They mention an Generation & Export Tariff, but over the phone they said I would only get 3.97pence per kW. Surely I also get the Generation rate per kW.
Am hoping that I can get this contract going with UW (without them providing my energy) and once they have caught up with the 2 years of payments, I move to Octopus, who tell me they can keep the contract at FIT rates. 
Being totally new to this rather complex jungle could the Forumites please advise? 
Many thanks. 

If your system is old enough for FIT payments, then you get two payments (usually made at the same time).

The FIT payment itself is based on the readings on your generation meter.  The pence per unit you get depends on when the system was installed, but increases with inflation every year.  The payment is based on how much you generate, not what you export.  So you even get paid if you used the electricity yourself.

The second is the export payment, which is only a few pence per unit.  If you have a SMETS2 smart meter, they may be able to measure that export, and pay you accordingly.  If not, they instead assume that you exported 50% of whatever you generated.

QrizB

@Zufre when you submit your generation meter reading you should also get FIT payments backdated to the previous owner's final reading.

Zufre

Ectophile said:

Zufre said:

Have similar issue with UW. Having moved in 2 years ago almost to the day, I finally got a letter from UW today, after dozens or phonecalls, emails and being ghosted by UW. The seller never transferred the panels to my name, but eventually I managed to get them in my name (In April!). 
From the letter they sent am not even sure what the different rates mean. They mention an Generation & Export Tariff, but over the phone they said I would only get 3.97pence per kW. Surely I also get the Generation rate per kW.
Am hoping that I can get this contract going with UW (without them providing my energy) and once they have caught up with the 2 years of payments, I move to Octopus, who tell me they can keep the contract at FIT rates. 
Being totally new to this rather complex jungle could the Forumites please advise? 
Many thanks. 

If your system is old enough for FIT payments, then you get two payments (usually made at the same time).

The FIT payment itself is based on the readings on your generation meter.  The pence per unit you get depends on when the system was installed, but increases with inflation every year.  The payment is based on how much you generate, not what you export.  So you even get paid if you used the electricity yourself.

The second is the export payment, which is only a few pence per unit.  If you have a SMETS2 smart meter, they may be able to measure that export, and pay you accordingly.  If not, they instead assume that you exported 50% of whatever you generated.

Thanks. After 26 months there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. They confirmed in April (6 months ago) that all was now in order. After much chasing, they finally confirmed they would pay me 17 Oct, yet since then I have been fobbed off 4 times with "Extra checks" required and you will be paid in 5-10 days. At least they have confirmed the full amount in the old FIT scheme which is good. As soon as I get my money back I am switching to Octopus.