Solar and battery storage for homes
Designed from your electricity bill rather than picked from a menu.
Solar panel installers in Stockport
Solar, battery storage and servicing across Stockport and the surrounding area. MCS certified, honest about when solar is not worth it, and happy to take small jobs.
Where we work
Stockport and the towns around it: Marple, Bramhall, Cheadle, Hazel Grove, Romiley, Bredbury and Poynton.
What Stockport roofs are actually like
Interwar and post-war semis. A great deal of Stockport's housing is the kind of three-bedroom semi that suits solar about as well as any house in Britain: a simple pitched roof, a decent unshaded face, and a family using electricity through the day more than they used to. This is the most common job we do.
The higher ground. Towards Marple, Romiley and the edge of the Peak, roofs are more exposed and often older. Exposure affects fixings and the specification we would recommend. North-facing slopes at that elevation also hold moss and lichen for longer, which is one of the genuine cases where cleaning is worth paying for rather than an upsell.
Mature trees. A lot of Stockport's suburban streets are well treed, which is lovely and is also the single most common reason we tell somebody their roof is not a good candidate. Shading across a string costs far more generation than most people expect. We model it rather than guess, and if the answer is no, we say no.
Conservation areas. Several parts of the borough have them, and they can change the planning position on a front elevation. We check before designing.
What we do here
Battery retrofits
On existing panels, usually a one-day job.
Servicing, cleaning and bird proofing
On any system, regardless of who installed it.
Commercial and agricultural solar
On the Cheshire side, including farms. No array too small — a Stockport semi with twelve panels is ordinary work for us.
What it costs in Stockport
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.
The three-bedroom semi that makes up so much of Stockport usually lands in the middle of that range. The things that move it are scaffolding, how exposed the roof is, and how much the trees take away.
What moves the price
| Factor | What it means here |
|---|---|
| Two-storey semis | Most need scaffolding. It is normally included in our price and typically accounts for £500 to £1,000 of it |
| Exposed roofs on the higher ground | Towards Marple and Romiley, exposure affects the fixings and specification we recommend |
| Trees and shading | The most common reason a roof is not worth doing. We model it rather than guess |
| 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 Stockport
Your distribution network operator is Electricity North West. They are the company that owns the wires, and they are not your energy supplier.
Planning rules in Stockport
Most domestic rooftop solar is permitted development, which means no planning application. Stockport is the exception to watch. The borough has a large number of conservation areas, and many of them also have Article 4 directions, which take away some permitted development rights.
Where a direction applies, work that would normally need no application can need one, and in some areas that includes elevations that do not face the road. The council publishes the list. It includes areas such as Alexandra Park, All Saints, Barlow Fold and Bramhall Lane South.
We check the council's list against your address before we design anything, and if an application is needed we tell you before you commit, not after.
The boundary matters too. Bramhall, Cheadle, Marple, Romiley, Bredbury and Hazel Grove are in Stockport borough, but Poynton is in Cheshire East, which has its own planning rules and its own council to deal with.
Questions from Stockport customers
Do you cover Stockport?
Yes. We work throughout Stockport and the surrounding areas, including Marple, Bramhall, Cheadle, Hazel Grove, Romiley, Bredbury and Poynton.
How quickly can you get to a site in Stockport?
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
Two photographs and a recent bill are enough for us to tell you what your house would do with panels on it.