Erla

Think about removing your panels and wiring only. Leave the brackets and rails in place. The new owner could then use them for their own installation.
Will be a lot less work and cost in my opinion.

You may have to re certify. If your system is registered then you would need to de-register it and register at the new address - a system is registered as an inverter (identified by serial number) at a physical location, and the registration covers all the electrical connections.

You'd probably have to "un split" the DB (cost) and may have to patch walls where the equipment is removed. Those costs are unlikely to be close to the cost of a PV system, but you should still figure them into your costings.

I did this excercise 2 weeks ago.
To remove panels from the home, and install at the new home, which mind you were 3 houses away, cost me R30K (removal was specified as R2.5K). Granted, the price includes COC, installation of the inverters, panels etc.
If you pay someone to do it, the onus is on them to not damage it, and if they do, they need to replace. I also had a major worry about the safety of the panels, but in hindsight, there was nothing to worry about.

The best is to get pricing in your area, for your source vs destination.

Best option is to sell it to the buyer and leave it in place. Moving will cost more than what you paid for installation in all likelihood. We managed to negotiate with our buyer 3 years ago that he would buy the system at a discount to what he would pay for it to be installed himself. In the end it worked out that what we paid for it originally, minus the electricity savings and minus what we got for the system, came to zero. So effectively we got to be free of loadshedding for 3 years for free. We also negotiated this separately to the house sale. He paid me in cash over 3 months.

The biggest advantage of this is you can tailor the new system at your new house to suit that house. We moved from a small flat to a big home so the old system wasn't really suitable to the new house. I know I would have accepted less than what I got just to allow me to get new at the new house. You also start with new equipment and new warranties etc.

All of this is assuming you have an inverter, batteries and solar panels all currently wired in and approved.

Hiya @Erla, yeah I took the plunge and fiddled with mine. seems to work as expected thank goodness :). Good luck!

Same here. After a message flashed that said there was an abnormal occurrence.