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Moving house: what happens to your feed-in tariff?
Two things surprise people here. You cannot take the tariff with you, and the person buying your house does not start being paid just because they now own the panels.
The short answer. The tariff is attached to the installation, so it stays with the property. But the payments do not transfer on their own: somebody has to tell the FIT licensee that the generator has changed, and until that happens the registration still names the person who has left.
Why it cannot come with you
Accreditation was granted to a specific installation at a specific address, on the eligibility date that set your rate. It is not a contract that follows you around. If you move and leave the panels behind, your entitlement ends with your ownership of them, and the new owner takes on the same rate, the same band and the same remaining term.
Fitting a new system at your new house is a different matter entirely, and not a continuation of this one. The Feed-in Tariff closed to new applicants in 2019, so a new installation cannot join the scheme at all. What it can do is take a Smart Export Guarantee tariff, which pays for exported units only and has no generation payment.
What the seller should hand over
The single most useful document is the FIT statement, because it carries the four facts the buyer will be asked for: the eligibility date, the tariff band, the term length and which FIT licensee holds the registration. Add the latest generation meter reading, and read the meter on completion day so there is an agreed figure for the handover.
829,604 of the installations on the register are domestic, so this changes hands somewhere in the country most days of the week. It is still the part of a sale that nobody has a form for.
What the buyer has to do
It depends which route the installation was accredited by, and the register tells you which: 857,610 installations are MCS, and the rest came through ROO-FIT or the Renewables Obligation.
MCS installations. Contact the FIT licensee the installation is registered with. They update the generator details on the Central FIT Register. Ofgem does not need to be told separately.
ROO-FIT installations. Ofgem has to be told as well, by email to the renewables team, so that the Renewable Electricity Register is updated. Then tell the FIT licensee.
Expect to be asked to prove you own the property, and expect a new statement of terms in your own name before the first payment reaches you.
Worth checking before you exchange, not after: what the rate actually is and how many years are left on the term. The rate finder gives the current figure from the eligibility date and system size, and what happens when the tariff ends covers the end of the term.
If it does not get processed
Change of ownership is a known sticking point, and the escalation route is the ordinary one for a supplier problem. Use the FIT licensee complaints process first. If it is still unresolved after eight weeks, the complaint can go to the Energy Ombudsman.
We cannot look at your registration, and neither can anyone who has not seen your paperwork. Which licensee holds it, and whose name is on it, is between you and them.
Change of ownership and registration rules as published by Ofgem in its Feed-in Tariffs guidance for generators. Installation and accreditation counts from the Ofgem Feed-in Tariff installation report of 2025-12-31. Information only, and not legal or financial advice: your own position is governed by your accreditation and your agreement with your FIT licensee.