Solar PV

Your next system is already in your customer base.

Every property carries what its roof could do — and whether a system is already running there. For businesses that build and register PV systems alongside installation, service and inspection.

Property · Lindenweg 8, 8620 WetzikonExample

Roof

2 surfaces · 148 m² · suitability 4 of 5
9'400 kWh/year

Facade

1 surface · 42 m² · suitability 2 of 5
1'900 kWh/year

Building

Apartment block · built 1998
6 dwellings

Registered installation

none
Roof free

Sonnendach, Sonnenfassade and the register of buildings, per EGID

The week you know

The system somebody else built

Every day you drive past buildings where your distribution boards are hanging. Which of those roofs is still free, nobody in the firm knows — and you would have to know in order to ask. So you wait until somebody calls of their own accord. Then in the spring one of those roofs has a system on it that somebody else built, and the customer tells you about it on your next service visit. You had the address for twelve years; what was missing was the look at the roof.

What changes

The property knows its own roof

The potential sits on the property

Area, yield in kilowatt hours per year and suitability — for the roof and for the facade, from the federal Sonnendach and Sonnenfassade maps, per building.

Free or already taken

Next to it stands whether a system is already producing on this building. You are not offering anyone something that has been on their roof since 2015.

The grid operator is known

Held per municipality from the ElCom register. You are not searching for who is responsible for this address, and not notifying the wrong body.

Commissioning without registration is not possible

The system cannot be set to "in operation" while the registration with the grid operator has not been checked. The order is kept because it has to be.

The starting point

Which of your roofs is still free?

That question can be answered without buying an address list and without knocking on a door. Your properties already carry the answer — on every property, ever since it was created.

From the federal maps
Sonnendach and Sonnenfassade, queried through the official building number, the EGID. Summed across all the building's surfaces: number of surfaces, square metres, kilowatt hours per year and the best suitability class.
Roof and facade kept apart
Both stand separately on the property. Where the roof is tight, the facade is sometimes the conversation to have — and without the second figure you would never think of it.
And what is already up there
From the plant register: whether this building is already producing and at what output. Usually there is nothing there — and that is exactly the answer you are looking for.
House or commercial, recorded rather than guessed
The building type and the number of dwellings come from the register of buildings and dwellings. Whether it is a single house or a block with six flats is stated there.
Your properties · roof potential3 of 5 free

Apartment block, Lindenweg 8

6 dwellings · suitability 4

9'400 kWh

Commercial building, Feldstrasse 4

Hall · suitability 5

41'200 kWh

House, Rebbergweg 12

1 dwelling · suitability 3

6'100 kWh

Hof Rütimatt

11.2 kWp installation since 2026

taken

Apartment block, Bahnhofstrasse 12

8.4 kWp installation since 2019

taken

All of these figures are the federal estimate for this building. They are not a survey of your roof and not a design. They are good enough to decide where a phone call is worth making — the sizing comes afterwards, from whoever climbs up there.

The run

From the free roof to the payout

Six stations on the same installation. What the first one knows is still available to the last — and at one point the order is not a recommendation.

  1. 01

    Potential on the property

    The property carries its roof and facade potential from the federal maps, plus the building type and the number of dwellings from the register. If no system is registered, the roof is free — and that is the reason to pick up the phone.

    Property Lindenweg 8

    Roof 9'400 kWh/year

    Installation none · roof free

  2. 02

    Enquiry and job

    The customer's reply lands in the firm's shared inbox and becomes a job on exactly this property. The address, the building and the potential already hang off it; nothing is retyped.

    Job 4482 · PV

    Lindenweg 8, 8620

    From the inbox 04.02.

  3. 03

    Connection application to the grid operator

    Who is responsible for this municipality is settled through the ElCom register. The application has to be out before commissioning — and the system cannot be set to "in operation" while the registration has not been checked.

    Grid connection application

    Grid operator via the municipality

    submitted 12.03. · before commissioning

  4. 04

    Installation and commissioning

    The day of commissioning is recorded on the installation, together with the output in kWp. The deadlines that follow run from that day. You enter it once, not three times.

    Installation 10.4 kWp

    24 modules · 1 inverter

    In operation since 04.06.2026

  5. 05

    Safety verification certificate

    The safety verification certificate belongs to the installation and stays there, with the test report beside it. If the grid operator asks for it years later, you are not hunting through a folder.

    Safety verification certificate

    Test report · 12 circuits

    To the grid operator 18.06.

  6. 06

    Subsidy file and payout

    The documents for the one-off feed-in subsidy collect on the installation along the way, and the twelve-month deadline from commissioning is tracked. You file the application with Pronovo yourself; after that its status sits on the installation, and experience says it takes nine to fifteen months until the money arrives.

    EIV file · 4 of 5 documents

    Deadline 04.06.2027

    Payout outstanding

The deadline for the one-off feed-in subsidy starts at station four and not at station six. That is why it hangs off the commissioning, which is recorded anyway — and not off a calendar entry.

Twelve months from commissioning

After twelve months the entitlement is forfeited

The application for the one-off feed-in subsidy has to be with Pronovo within twelve months of commissioning, otherwise the entitlement is forfeited. On a 10 kWp system that is around CHF 3'700 to 4'150; the rates are adjusted periodically. The deadline is counted from the recorded day of commissioning and speaks up while the application is still possible.

Calculate the EIV deadline

What stays

You keep what works

Solar PV is one of four focuses in the same business, not a separate business alongside. So everything that runs for the other three stays as well.

  • Your accounting — export to bexio, Abacus and Banana
  • Your notifications to the grid operator through M2 and ElektroForm — we do not build a second one alongside
  • Your article prices and terms with the wholesaler, modules and inverters included
  • Your existing customer base, whatever work you did there first

After 45 minutes you will know which of your roofs still have nothing on them.

We take a handful of your properties, pull the roof and facade potential from the federal data and tell you which of them carry no system yet. The list is yours, contract or no contract.

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