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Changing the company that pays your feed-in tariff
You are allowed to move your registration to a different company. It is worth knowing what that achieves before you do it, because it is not the thing most people assume.
The short answer. Switching is about service and administration, not about money. Your generation and export tariffs are set by the scheme from your eligibility date and system size, so a different licensee pays the same rate. If you are switching in the hope of a better rate, there is not one to find.
Your licensee and your electricity supplier are two different things
The company that pays your feed-in tariff is your FIT licensee. The company that sells you electricity is your supplier. They are often the same business, which is why the two get confused, but nothing requires it. You can buy your electricity from one company and be paid your tariff by another.
The consequence catches people out in both directions. Switching your electricity supply to get a cheaper unit rate does not move your feed-in tariff, and it does not put it at risk either. Equally, moving your feed-in tariff does not get you a cheaper electricity tariff.
How the switch works
You start it from the receiving end. Contact the FIT licensee you want to move to and ask to switch, and they contact your current licensee and begin the transfer. Ofgem puts the usual timescale at around four to five weeks.
Two things are needed to complete it: a new statement of terms from the incoming licensee, and current meter readings. The readings matter more than they look, because they are what divides the money between the old licensee and the new one. Take your own reading on the day and keep a photograph of the meter.
What it will not change
Not your rate, not your band, not your eligibility date and not the length of your term. All of those were fixed when you were accredited and they travel with the registration. This year's figures are on the rates page, and they are the same figures whoever is paying them.
There is one genuine exception. 12,274 installations on the register are on a negotiated export tariff, which is agreed with the licensee rather than set by the scheme. If you are one of them, who you are registered with does affect what you are paid for export, and it is worth asking what an incoming licensee would offer. The other 857,533 are not in that position.
Not every electricity supplier is a FIT licensee. The larger ones are required to be, and smaller ones may take part voluntarily, so the list of companies you can actually move to is shorter than the list of energy suppliers. Ofgem publishes which is which.
Reasons that are worth switching for
Service, mostly, which is not a trivial reason when the relationship consists of submitting readings and being paid correctly. A licensee that loses readings, pays late or cannot process a change of ownership is a real problem, and moving is a real answer to it. If a payment dispute is what prompted this, the complaints process and then the Energy Ombudsman after eight weeks is the route to money you are owed. Switching does not recover it.
Switching process, timescale and licensee obligations as published by Ofgem in its Feed-in Tariffs guidance for generators, with the current list of participating companies at Ofgem FIT licensees. Export status counts from the Ofgem Feed-in Tariff installation report of 2025-12-31. Information only, and not financial advice.