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                        "text": "The PPA should be reviewed alongside the roof lease or licence, access agreement, connection agreement, export agreement, metering arrangements, operations and maintenance records, insurance documents, planning documents, warranty paperwork, and any lender or investor consent requirements. If your business leases the premises, landlord consent may be essential because buying the panels does not automatically give you the legal right to keep, access, maintain, or remove them from the roof."
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