Renting or leasing solar panels: what does it mean for your ERE payment?

Short answer: no. Whether you buy, rent or lease your solar panels, or get them through your housing corporation, makes no difference to whether you receive an ERE payment for home charging, or to how much you receive. The ERE rules look at your charge point, your grid connection and your charging data, not at what’s on your roof. Rental and lease contracts do sometimes contain terms that touch your charge point, your meters or your data, though. Below we work through the questions we see most often, with a checklist for your contract.

What ERE does look at

Since 2026, private individuals can have their home-charging sessions registered, exclusively through a registration service provider. According to the NEa you qualify if your charge point has an integrated, MID-certified kWh meter and you own the grid connection at your address. The NEa checks that “ownership” in the grid operators’ Central Connections Register (Centraal Aansluitingenregister), not through your energy contract and not by who owns the building or the roof.

Solar panels aren’t on that list. A tenant with panels from the housing corporation, a homeowner with leased panels and someone who paid cash for their panels are therefore assessed on exactly the same three points:

• a charge point with an integrated MID meter (required for private individuals since 1 January 2026, with no transition year);
• a grid connection in your name in the Central Connections Register;
• verifiable charging data in kWh that your provider can read out.

If you also rent the home itself, read our article on renting, moving house and a second home: it covers what to arrange when the landlord installed the charge point.

Does the amount change? No

In its guidance for private individuals, the NEa states explicitly that a registration service provider always receives the same number of EREs per kWh delivered, whether or not you have solar panels. Home chargers are calculated with one fixed renewable-electricity percentage: 50.5% in 2026. Through the fixed formula that’s 0.33269 ERE per kWh charged.

At the median of named sources of €0.460 per ERE (as of 18 October 2026, range €0.36 to €0.505), that works out to about €0.153 gross per kWh, before your provider’s commission. The amount is the same for owned, rented, leased or no solar panels at all. Why your own generation doesn’t raise the renewable share for private individuals is explained in ERE and solar panels at home.

Charging directly from your own panels: does it count?

Yes. Under the Energy for Transport Regulation, the number of kWh registered is the amount shown by the charge point’s meter. That meter can’t see where the electricity came from: a kWh that goes straight from your roof into the car counts just as much as a kWh from the grid, and gets the same conversion factor. So there’s no bonus for solar power, but no deduction either.

Two caveats:

• Feeding back doesn’t count. Electricity your car sends back to the home or grid (for example with bidirectional charging) is not registered under the regulation.
• Rented solar power isn’t always free. If you pay per kWh generated or through a monthly fee, charging on sunshine costs you that rate. Wocozon, which installs panels for housing corporations, writes for example that solar power from your own roof isn’t free, but is cheaper than electricity from your energy supplier.

From 2027, charging while the sun shines becomes more attractive financially, because the net-metering scheme ends. How that plays out, with a worked example, is covered in End of net metering in 2027.

Who owns what, and does it matter for ERE?

Item	Who has it?	Does it matter for ERE?
The solar panels	Set out in your purchase, rental or lease contract	No
The electricity generated	You use it in your home; the surplus goes to your energy supplier	No
Net metering (until the end of 2026) and feed-in compensation	Runs through your energy contract, even if you’re only the user of the panels	No
Guarantees of origin (GOs)	Only if the owner has registered the installation with VertiCer; they then go to a trader	No, for home charging the NEa uses a fixed percentage
The charge point	You, or the party named in your contract if it’s part of a package	Yes: integrated MID meter required
The grid connection	Whoever it’s registered to in the Central Connections Register	Yes: that party has the electricity registered
The charging data	Comes from the meter inside the charge point	Yes: verifiable kWh per session

If your landlord or housing corporation pays for the panels, Milieu Centraal says this usually comes with a rent increase or higher service charges. At Wocozon the monthly amount is part of the service charges. Milieu Centraal also points out that as a user who isn’t the owner, you may still use net metering for as long as the scheme exists (until 1 January 2027). None of these payment arrangements affects your ERE payment.

Guarantees of origin: why they don’t matter for your ERE

A guarantee of origin is a digital certificate from VertiCer proving that 1 MWh was generated sustainably. VertiCer only issues them once a production installation has been registered and the grid operator sends in the metering values; they go to the trader the producer chooses, in practice usually an electricity supplier. With rented or leased panels, you’re therefore not automatically the one who registers or receives them.

The ERE rules do have a separate route in which self-generated renewable electricity counts at 100%. It requires special guarantees of origin for non-grid delivery, which must be on the NEa’s account before registration, and no operating subsidy may have been received for that electricity. For private individuals charging at home, the NEa’s own guidance says the fixed percentage applies. Whether the GOs from your panels go to the landlord, to a supplier or nowhere at all, it doesn’t change your ERE payment. We work through the difference between the fixed percentage and 100% in ERE and solar panels at home.

Checklist: what to check in your rental or lease contract

• The charge point. Is a charge point part of the package? Check who owns it, whether it has an integrated MID meter, and whether the contract says anything about ERE, “environmental certificates” or CO₂ rights. Agree in writing beforehand who receives the ERE payment.
• Extra meters. A lessor sometimes installs its own generation meter; Wocozon, for example, mentions a separate solar meter that reports generation once a day. Useful for insight, but such a meter doesn’t count for ERE, and neither does your smart meter. Only the meter inside the charge point counts.
• Your energy contract. Does the contract prescribe a supplier or tariff? Your energy contract makes no difference to ERE, but it does determine your feed-in compensation and any feed-in costs, and those weigh more heavily from 2027.
• The grid connection. It must stay in your name in the Central Connections Register. If a contract asks you to change anything about your connection, ask your ERE provider first what that means.
• Data. Who receives your generation data, and does the lessor’s app or energy management system also control your charge point? Make sure you can export your charging sessions and read how your charging data is shared.
• Term and moving house. Wocozon, for example, states that its contract runs for as long as you live in the home and that the installation stays behind when you move. Your ERE registration is tied to the address too; see moving house with ERE.
• The end of net metering. Will your monthly fee or your benefit change after 1 January 2027? Wocozon writes that the electricity price doesn’t change, but that your annual statement may turn out less favourable. Check your own contract for a price-adjustment clause.

This isn’t legal advice on rental or lease contracts; when in doubt, ask the lessor for written confirmation, and ask your ERE provider to assess your situation.

What you can do now

Do the charger check to see whether your charge point qualifies, use the earnings calculator to estimate what you’d receive per year, and compare providers on commission, payout and terms. The ERE with solar panels page lists the points to watch for households with panels.

In short

• Renting, leasing or getting solar panels through your housing corporation doesn’t change whether you get ERE: the charge point, the connection and the charging data decide that.
• The amount is the same: 0.33269 ERE per kWh charged in 2026, about €0.153 gross per kWh at €0.460 per ERE, with or without panels.
• Charging directly from solar power counts in full, because the meter in the charge point measures everything the car receives; feeding back from the car doesn’t count.
• Guarantees of origin and ownership of the panels make no difference to your ERE payment.
• Check your contract for the charge point, extra meters, your energy contract, your data and the term, and put in writing who receives the ERE if a charge point is part of the package.