Solar panels
Solar panels for UK homes, without the sales pitch
UK solar costs, payback, roof suitability, planning, insurance, moving house and shading.
What will solar cost you, and when does it pay back?
Set your roof size, your bill, your tariff and your export rate, and see the install cost, annual saving and payback year — with every assumption visible and editable. Runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.
Is it worth it, and what will it cost?
The two questions everyone arrives with. Answered with a model whose assumptions you can see and change, not a single headline number.
Solar panel costs in the UK
You want a number, and you want to know what is missing from the one you were given.
Read it →Are solar panels worth it in the UK?
You suspect the answer is being oversold and you want the case against.
Read it →How many solar panels do you actually need?
You need to sanity-check the size an installer proposed.
Read it →Is your roof suitable for solar?
Before you invite anyone to survey it.
Read it →Buying without getting burned
UK homeowners’ biggest blocker is not information, it is fear of being ripped off — and that fear is well earned.
How to avoid getting ripped off buying solar
Someone has knocked on your door, or a quote feels wrong.
Read it →Choosing a solar installer
You have three quotes and no way to compare the companies behind them.
Read it →What to ask a solar installer
A surveyor is coming and you want to be the well-prepared customer.
Read it →Your roof and your property
Low search volume individually, enormous in aggregate, and the people asking are much further down the funnel than the ones asking about price.
Planning permission for solar panels
Before you commit, and definitely before anyone drills anything.
Read it →Solar panels on a listed building
Your building is listed and you have been told no.
Read it →Solar on a north-facing roof
Your only usable slope faces the wrong way.
Read it →Solar panels on a flat roof
Extension, garage, or a flat-roofed house.
Read it →What shading actually costs you
There is a tree, a chimney or a neighbour in the way.
Read it →How solar works
The technical background, for readers who want it before they commit.
Living with panels
Insurance, mortgages, selling the house, maintenance. Barely covered anywhere, and it is what a careful buyer worries about.
Solar panels and moving house
You are selling, or buying a house that already has panels.
Read it →Solar panels and home insurance
You have just had them fitted, or are about to.
Read it →Solar panels, mortgages and valuations
You are remortgaging, or the house you want has leased panels.
Read it →Maintaining a solar system
You own a system and want to know what to budget.
Read it →Bird proofing solar panels
There are birds under your panels, or you want to prevent it.
Read it →Common questions
How much do solar panels cost in the UK?
Do solar panels work in the UK climate?
How long do solar panels take to pay for themselves?
Do I need planning permission?
How do I avoid being ripped off?
What will solar cost you, and when does it pay back?
Set your roof size, your bill, your tariff and your export rate, and see the install cost, annual saving and payback year — with every assumption visible and editable. Runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.
Get important solar updates
One email when a grant, export rate or rule changes. No newsletters or sales emails.