Gerard Last reviewed: 3 September 2026. The prices in the table below were read from the named retailers’ own product pages on 4 September 2026 and are stated including VAT. Retail prices move; check before you buy, and tell us if you find one that has changed. Complete plug-in solar kits sold in Britain ran from … Read more
Last reviewed: 3 September 2026. This is an active insolvency and the position can change. Where something is not confirmed, we say so rather than filling the gap. If you have documentation that updates anything below, please tell us. If you own a GivEnergy battery: it still works, it is not unsafe, and you should … Read more
Last reviewed: 4 September 2026. Figures and legal points checked against primary sources (legislation.gov.uk, gov.uk, Ofgem and the relevant network operator). Last reviewed: 3 September 2026. The English rules below are quoted from the amending order itself, SI 2026/896, which came into force on 27 August 2026. Scotland and Wales have separate regimes and we … Read more
Last reviewed: 4 September 2026. Figures and legal points checked against primary sources (legislation.gov.uk, gov.uk, Ofgem and the relevant network operator). Last reviewed: 3 September 2026. The requirements below are quoted from the government’s Interim Product Specification version 2 and the regulations that give it force. We are publishers, not electricians, and this page is … Read more
Last reviewed: 3 September 2026, against Ofgem’s Smart Export Guarantee guidance for generators. If Ofgem changes the eligibility rules, this page is rewritten before anything else on the site. No. A self-installed plug-in solar device cannot be registered for the Smart Export Guarantee, because the SEG requires an installation certified under MCS or an accepted … Read more
Last reviewed: 3 September 2026. Quotations are from SI 2026/848 and from the DESNZ Plug-in Solar Device Interim Product Specification, version 2.0, July 2026. The specification is interim and will be superseded; we re-check this page when it is. No. Not in the way the question is usually meant, and not by any product you … Read more
Last reviewed: 3 September 2026. Installed price ranges on this page are ranges published by UK installers, not a price survey of our own — we label them wherever they appear and we will label our own survey clearly when we have done it. Electricity figures use the Ofgem price cap for 1 October to … Read more
Last reviewed: 3 September 2026. The technical requirements on this page are quoted from the DESNZ Plug-in Solar Device Interim Product Specification, version 2.0, July 2026. Generation figures are our own estimates, and we say so where they appear. Disclosure: this article discusses products we may link to commercially elsewhere on the site. Some retailer … Read more
Last reviewed: 3 September 2026, against the Ofgem price cap for 1 October to 31 December 2026. Kit prices quoted were checked at named retailers on 4 September 2026. This page is rewritten every time the cap changes — four times a year. For a household with someone at home during the day and somewhere … Read more