Last reviewed: 5 September 2026. This page is about the import tariff, because a plug-in solar kit earns you nothing for export. Prices quoted are the Ofgem price cap for Great Britain for 1 October to 31 December 2026; Northern Ireland has a separate market. General information, not financial advice. Most tariff advice written for … Read more
Last reviewed: 5 September 2026. This page is arithmetic, not a sales page. Kit prices are ranges published by UK retailers, not a price survey of our own, and we label them as such. Electricity figures use the Ofgem price cap for 1 October to 31 December 2026: 26.32p per kWh. Generation figures are our … Read more
Last reviewed: 5 September 2026. This page is about behaviour, not hardware — everything on it costs nothing and applies to any plug-in kit. Appliance consumption figures are typical published ranges, not measurements of our own, and we say so where they appear. Electricity figures use the Ofgem price cap for 1 October to 31 … Read more
Last reviewed: 4 September 2026. Appliance figures are typical UK ratings; check the plate on your own appliance, because models vary widely. Eight hundred watts is the legal ceiling for a plug-in kit’s inverter, and it is less than a kettle. That single comparison tells you most of what you need to know: this is … Read more
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, 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