Find Out What Solar Would Really Cost for Your Home
Online calculators can give you a ballpark figure, but the price of a solar system is set by things only a survey can confirm: how much usable roof you have, which way it faces, what shades it in winter, how far the inverter sits from the consumer unit and whether scaffolding can go up easily. Solar Panel Price helps UK homeowners get past the ballpark by sending one enquiry to independent installers who cover their postcode.
Depending on availability, up to four local solar specialists may contact you to talk through the property, look at the roof and prepare a written quotation. Using the service is free, and you are under no obligation to accept any of the prices you receive.
How It Works
- Tell us about the property. Give your postcode, the type of work you are interested in and anything you already know about the roof or an existing system.
- We pass the enquiry on. Up to four installers who work in your area and carry out that type of job may receive your details.
- Installers get in touch. Expect questions about your electricity use and meter, and a request for roof photos or a survey visit.
- Compare written proposals. Look at the equipment, predicted generation, paperwork, warranties and total price side by side.
Solar Work You Can Get Quotes For
Solar panel installation
A complete new PV system — panels, mounting, inverter, isolators, generation meter and registration — sized to your roof and your annual consumption.
Solar battery storage
A home battery added to new or existing panels so that some midday generation can be used in the evening. The value of storing it depends on your import and export tariffs as well as the battery cost.
Solar panel repairs
Tracing and fixing faults on systems that have stopped generating or are producing far less than they used to, from burnt connectors to storm-damaged rails.
Solar inverter replacement
Swapping a failed or tired inverter — often the first major component to wear out — for a modern string, hybrid or microinverter set-up.
Solar panel cleaning and maintenance
Pure-water cleaning, bird-fouling removal, pigeon-proofing mesh and a health check of cables, isolators and inverter logs.
Solar PV system upgrades
Adding panels, fitting optimisers to shaded strings, pairing in a battery, or adding a hot-water diverter or EV charger to an existing array.
Why a Survey Beats a Standard Package Price
Two neighbouring houses with identical roofs can end up with quite different quotes. One may have a chimney that shades half the array from November to February; the other may need its consumer unit upgraded before anything new can be connected. A roof covered in natural slate needs different fixings from one with concrete interlocking tiles, and a bungalow can often be done from towers rather than full scaffolding. A proper survey, or at the very least a detailed set of photographs, is what turns a package price into a quote you can rely on.
A good installer will also ask how you use electricity. A household that is out all day, charges an electric car overnight or runs a heat pump will benefit from a different system design from one where someone works from home. Sizing the array and any battery around your own consumption, rather than filling the roof by default, usually gives a better return.
Getting More from Panels You Already Have
Many enquiries come from people who already own a solar system. Arrays fitted during the Feed-in Tariff years are now well over a decade old, and their original inverters are reaching the end of their expected life. If your generation meter has stopped moving, the inverter screen is blank or showing an error, or your monitoring app reports much lower output than in previous summers, a repair or inverter replacement is often far cheaper than a new system. If you are exporting most of what you generate, adding a battery or a diverter may be the most useful upgrade.
Common Reasons People Ask for Quotes
- high electricity bills and a south, east or west-facing roof that is doing nothing;
- an existing system with an inverter fault, a blank display or a dead monitoring app;
- pigeons nesting under the panels and fouling the roof and gutters;
- wanting to use more of their own generation in the evening;
- a new electric car, heat pump or time-of-use tariff changing how the home uses power;
- re-roofing work that means panels need taking down and refitting; or
- visible damage to panels or mounting rails after high winds.
What to Look for in a Solar Quote
- make and model of the panels, inverter and any battery, not just the system size in kW;
- an estimated annual generation figure and how it was calculated;
- whether scaffolding, bird protection and any consumer unit work are included;
- who registers the system with the network operator and supplies the MCS certificate;
- product warranties, the installer's workmanship guarantee and any insurance-backed cover;
- the deposit amount and how it is protected; and
- a realistic installation date.
Installers registered with MCS and a consumer code such as RECC work to recognised installation and sales standards, and an MCS certificate or equivalent is normally needed for Smart Export Guarantee eligibility in Great Britain. Ofgem explains the eligibility rules.
Free Quotes, No Obligation
We introduce your enquiry to up to four independent local solar installation businesses. We do not install systems ourselves or recommend one installer over another. The survey, contract, payment terms and warranty are agreed directly between you and the company you choose.
When you are ready, send your enquiry, compare the proposals you receive and choose the one that makes sense for your home.