Legalising a solar installation in the Valencia region takes two stages: the council and the regional Industry department. We handle both, from start to finish. Including systems fitted by a company that left without making them legal.
Nine situations, each with its own page, its price and our turnaround. Start with the one that looks like yours; if none of them does, the three questions below work it out.
“I have panels, but I do not know whether they are properly legalised.”
From €49VAT included
“The panels have been running for years and it turns out they were never legalised.”
From €199VAT included
“I have no paperwork at all for the panels and no idea where to start.”
From €79VAT included
“The panels are still in the previous owner’s name.”
From €149VAT included
“My panels produce, but my bill credits me nothing.”
From €99VAT included
“I have added a battery and I do not know whether it has to be legalised.”
From €349VAT included
“My council is asking for paperwork and I do not know which.”
From €149VAT included
“A letter has arrived asking for documents and there is a deadline.”
From €99VAT included
“My installation is over 10 kW and I am told I need a full project.”
From €249VAT included
Three questions about things you can check at home, and we tell you which procedure is yours, what it covers and what it costs. We do not ask for your phone or your email to show you the result.
First the council procedure, before installing. Then the communication to Industry, once the installation is finished. Without both, the installation does not exist as far as the administration is concerned.
Stage 1
Before installing, you need either a responsible declaration or a works licence, depending on the municipality. Decret Llei 14/2020 simplified the procedure across the Valencia region, but each council applies it in its own way: different forms, different fees, different waiting times. We file the right one for your town.
Stage 2
Once the installation is finished, it must be registered with the regional Industry department. Up to 10 kW, a communication filed by a licensed installer is enough, with a technical report and the installation certificate. Above 10 kW things change: a signed engineering project and works supervision are required. A normal home is almost always in the first group.
Each stage has its own page with its own price: your council procedure, town by town and what changes once the installation goes over 10 kW.
The 10 kW threshold sets the Industry procedure: below it, a technical report; above it, a full project. The exemption from grid access and connection permits is something else: it reaches up to 15 kW on urban land. They are two different thresholds for two different procedures, and mixing them up leads to mistakes in the paperwork.
It happens more often than you would think, above all with systems sold at the peak of 2022 and 2023: the company installed, got paid and vanished without finishing the paperwork. Many owners, foreign residents among them, do not even know their system was never legalised. Your panels produce, but for the administration they do not exist. We legalise installations fitted by others, even when the company is long gone.
The discount for the energy you feed into the grid requires a registered installation. Without the paperwork, that energy is given away.
Councils that reduce IBI, the annual property tax, ask for a legalised installation. No registration, no reduction.
Deductions on Spanish income tax require the installation to appear in the official registers. Without that, the tax office will not accept them.
If there is an incident and the installation is not legalised, your home insurer may raise objections to covering it.
An installation without paperwork complicates a sale: the buyer or their bank may ask for it, and then you are sorting it out in a hurry.
An installation connected without being registered can end in a formal demand from the administration. Better to get ahead of it.
Depending on what is missing, the route is one or the other: recovering the paperwork your installer left half done or legalising panels that have been up for years.
The good news: it can almost always be fixed. We review what is there, rebuild any missing documentation and file the pending procedures. And if you would also like someone watching that your system produces what it should, see how we monitor your installation every day.
We commit to filing your application complete and properly prepared first time, and to following it up to the end: we tell you where it stands at every milestone, without you having to chase us.
What you will not hear from us is a promise about when the council, the grid company or the regional Industry department will decide. That depends on them alone, and anyone who promises you a date is misleading you. Our job is to make your side of the file impeccable and to make sure you always know where your paperwork is.
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In the Valencia region: the council procedure (a responsible declaration or a licence, depending on the town) and a communication to the regional Industry department filed by a licensed installer, with the technical report and the installation certificate. No full engineering project is needed.
Installations up to 15 kW on urban land are exempt from grid access and connection permits. Note that this is a different threshold from the 10 kW one for Industry. The two are often confused, and it is a mistake we see regularly.
The decision sits with each council, the grid company and the regional Industry department, and it is not in our hands. What is in our hands: filing everything complete first time and telling you where your paperwork stands at every step.
Yes. We inspect the installation, prepare any missing documentation and file the pending procedures. It is a regular job for us.
No. The simplified surplus compensation scheme requires a registered installation and an up-to-date contract with your electricity supplier. Until then, the energy you export earns you no discount on your bill.
No. The legal base is the same, Decret Llei 14/2020, but every council has its own form, its own fee and its own criteria. That is why we work town by town, with the exact papers each one asks for.
If what stings is the bill, see how surplus compensation gets switched on. And if you do not even know what state your paperwork is in, start by checking whether your panels are legalised.
Every council asks for its own papers. See the towns where we handle the paperwork, one by one, or start with a new installation with all the paperwork included.
New, half done or abandoned by another installer. We review it, tell you what is missing and take care of the paperwork.
Also when the house has changed hands and the panels are still in the previous owner’s name, when you have changed something and the paperwork says otherwise or when a letter from Industry has arrived with a deadline.
Every service and every certificate, with its price including VAT, its pricing mode and third party fees listed separately, grouped by what is happening to the house rather than by what we call them.
See the price of every service and certificate