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Inheriting a home with a feed-in tariff
It is rarely the first thing anyone thinks about, and it is easily lost among everything else an estate involves. But a feed-in tariff is a live income that needs a small piece of admin to keep running.
The short answer. The tariff is attached to the installation, so it passes with the property to whoever inherits it. What does not happen automatically is the payments moving to the new owner: the change of generator has to be registered with the FIT licensee first, and until it is, the registration still names the person who has died.
The tariff does not die with the owner
Accreditation belongs to the installation at its address, not to a person, so it is not lost when the owner dies. It continues, with the same rate, band and remaining term, and passes with the property. Among the 869,807 installations on the register, a share change hands this way every year, quietly, as estates are settled.
What an executor needs to do
Keep the readings going. Payments are worked out from meter readings, so submitting them through the transition stops the income stalling. Photograph the meter.
Register the change of generator. Tell the FIT licensee that the generator has changed. For an MCS installation the licensee updates the Central FIT Register; for a ROO-FIT installation Ofgem must be told as well so the Renewable Electricity Register is updated.
Expect to prove entitlement. The licensee will want to see who now owns the property before it pays a new generator, in the same way as any change of ownership.
The mechanics are the same as a sale, covered in moving house: what happens to your tariff. The difference is only that the trigger is an estate rather than a sale, and that an executor may be doing it on behalf of someone else.
If payments have already stalled
Common, and recoverable. If readings stopped or the change was never registered, the entitlement has not been lost, only interrupted. Contact the FIT licensee, register the change, and provide the readings for the missed period. If the licensee is difficult, its complaints process and then the Energy Ombudsman after eight weeks is the route, as in how the payments reach you.
We cannot see the registration or act on an estate's behalf, and the tax position of an estate is a matter for a solicitor or the executors. What we can say is that the feed-in tariff itself is not the thing to worry about losing: it survives, and a short piece of admin keeps it running.
Change of ownership and registration rules are as published by Ofgem in its Feed-in Tariffs guidance for generators. Installation counts from the Ofgem Feed-in Tariff installation report of 2025-12-31. Information only, and not legal, tax or financial advice.