Solar and battery storage for homes
Designed from your electricity bill rather than picked from a menu.
Solar panel installers in Manchester
Solar, battery storage and servicing across Manchester and Greater Manchester. MCS certified, straight answers, and we take the jobs the national contractors turn down.
Where we work
We cover Manchester and the surrounding boroughs day to day: Salford, Trafford, Stockport, Tameside, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury and Bolton.
We are based in Warrington, about 40 minutes away on a normal morning. If you are not sure whether we cover you, ring and ask rather than filling in a form. We will tell you straight away.
What Manchester roofs are actually like
Terraces and back-to-backs. A lot of inner Manchester housing shares a roofline with the neighbours, which affects scaffolding, access and where the inverter can sensibly go. It also means your roof may have less usable unshaded area than the aerial view suggests. We survey for that rather than assuming.
Victorian slate. Older slate roofs need different fixings to modern concrete tile, and some need attention before an array goes on them. There is no sense fitting a twenty-five year system to a roof with a few years left in it, and we will tell you if that is what we find.
Conservation areas and listed buildings. Manchester has a lot of both. Domestic rooftop solar is usually permitted development, but the position changes on a listed building and can change in a conservation area, particularly on an elevation facing a highway. We check before designing anything.
Apartment and accommodation blocks. These are a different job again: freeholder consent, shared supplies, and a metering arrangement that has to be worked out before anything else. We do this work, and the first conversation is usually with the managing agent rather than a resident.
What we do here
Battery retrofits
Very common in Manchester, where a lot of arrays went on under the old Feed-in Tariff and came with no storage at all.
Commercial solar
For warehouses, industrial units and offices, including the older industrial stock around the city.
Servicing, cleaning and bird proofing
Including on systems we did not install and systems whose installer has gone out of business.
What it costs in Manchester
Most home installations we quote land between £5,995 and £8,995 installed, including VAT at 0%. Adding a battery to panels you already have typically costs £2,800 to £5,000.
In Manchester the house matters more than the postcode. A mid-terrace with a shared roofline, an older slate roof or an original fuse board can each add to the job, and we tell you which apply after the survey.
What moves the price
| Factor | What it means here |
|---|---|
| Terraces and shared rooflines | Scaffolding has to be agreed around the neighbours and the street. It is normally included in our price and typically accounts for £500 to £1,000 of it |
| Victorian slate | Slate needs different fixings to concrete tile, and an older roof may need repairs first. We tell you before you commit |
| Older consumer units | Common in older housing, and sometimes need upgrading before a system can be connected |
| A battery | Adds £2,800 to £5,000, depending on capacity |
You get a fixed written quote after a survey. The price on the quote is the price you pay. How our pricing works
Grid connection in Manchester
How grid approval worksYour distribution network operator is Electricity North West. They are the company that owns the wires, and they are not your energy supplier.
We deal with them on your behalf as part of every job: the notification for a straightforward domestic system, or the full application and approval for anything larger, including most solar-plus-battery combinations.
If you let a house in Manchester
A large share of Manchester's homes are privately rented, and the rules for landlords are changing. The government has confirmed that every private tenancy in England and Wales will need to meet a higher energy standard by 1 October 2030.
The new standard comes in two parts. The fabric of the home comes first, meaning insulation and similar work. After that the landlord chooses one of two routes: a heating standard, usually met with a heat pump, or a smart readiness standard, met with measures such as solar panels, a battery and a smart meter.
The spend a landlord can be required to make is capped at £10,000 per property, and a home already rated EPC C before 1 October 2029 counts as compliant until that certificate expires. Work done from 1 October 2025 can count towards the cap.
For many terraces and semis, solar and a battery is the cheaper route because it leaves a working boiler alone, and the tenant gets the lower bills. We can price that route for a single house or a portfolio, and we will tell you if your property would be better served by something else.
Questions from Manchester customers
Do you cover Manchester?
Yes. We work throughout Manchester and the surrounding areas, including Salford, Trafford, Stockport, Tameside, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury and Bolton.
How quickly can you get to a site in Manchester?
We reply to every enquiry within two working days and arrange a survey from there. For a fault on a maintained system we aim to be on site within 48 hours. We are based in Warrington, about an hour away at most.
Send a photo of your roof
We will tell you what it would take, roughly what it would cost, and whether it is worth doing at all.