Solar panels, batteries and heat pumps in Nottingham
MCS-certified solar, batteries, heat pumps and EV chargers across Nottingham and the towns around it, from Beeston to Newark.
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Solar panel installers for Nottingham.
Nottingham's boundary is drawn tight around the old city, and inside it three homes in five are semis or terraces, nearly one in five is a purpose-built flat and almost two households in five have no car. Cross the boundary into Rushcliffe, Gedling or Broxtowe and the houses get bigger and the drives fill up: nearly half the homes in Rushcliffe are detached. So a city terrace usually wants panels and a battery on a cheap overnight tariff, a West Bridgford or Arnold semi often adds an EV charger, and the oil-heated villages towards Newark are where a heat pump does most.
Every install is MCS certified (NAP-75287), with 0% VAT on solar, batteries and heat pumps until March 2027 and the £7,500 Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant claimed for you.
- Postcode districts
- NG1–NG8 for the city (NG1 the centre and the Lace Market, NG2 the Meadows and Sneinton and, across the Trent, West Bridgford, NG3 St Ann's, Mapperley and Carlton Hill, NG4 Carlton, Gedling and Netherfield, NG5 Sherwood, Bestwood and Arnold, NG6 Bulwell and Basford, NG7 Lenton, Radford, Hyson Green and The Park, NG8 Wollaton, Aspley and Bilborough), NG9 for Beeston, Stapleford and Chilwell, NG11 for Clifton and Ruddington, NG12 for Radcliffe on Trent, Cotgrave and Keyworth, NG13 for Bingham, NG14 for Burton Joyce and Lowdham, NG15 for Hucknall and Ravenshead and NG16 for Eastwood and Kimberley, plus NG10 for Long Eaton and NG24 for Newark
- Network operator (DNO)
- National Grid Electricity Distribution (East Midlands). We make the G98 notification or G99 application for your solar or battery; you do not need to contact them.
Nottingham in numbers.
What the public data says about homes here, and what it means for yours.
978 kWh
a year from each kW of panels
A south-facing roof at 35° in central Nottingham, after losses. An east or west roof gives about a fifth less over the year, and a battery makes better use of what it does produce by carrying the daytime surplus into the evening.
Source: PVGIS (European Commission Joint Research Centre), central Nottingham
61%
of city homes are semis or terraces
33% semi-detached and 27% terraced, with 18% purpose-built flats. Detached houses rise from 16% in the city to 36% in Broxtowe, 39% in Gedling and 47% in Rushcliffe, where a bigger roof takes a bigger array.
Source: Census 2021, TS044 accommodation type (ONS)
1 in 9
city homes heated by electricity alone
11% of Nottingham households, against 4% to 6% in Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Gedling, and 45% in the Castle ward, where most homes are city-centre flats. Anyone in that position with a roof of their own gains most from a battery charged on a cheap overnight tariff.
Source: Census 2021, TS046 central heating (ONS), local authorities and 2022 wards
38%
of city households have no car
Against 23.5% across England and 13.5% in Rushcliffe, where 46% of households run two or more cars. In the city a battery and the right tariff usually come first; in the suburbs beyond the boundary, an EV charger fits naturally alongside the panels.
Source: Census 2021, TS045 car or van availability (ONS)
What would this mean for your Nottingham home?
We come out, look at the roof, the loft and the meter, and tell you what is worth doing. No obligation.
Around Nottingham.
We cover Nottingham and everywhere around it. A few of the places nearby, and what tends to matter there.
West Bridgford
NG2 · Rushcliffe Borough Council
Across Trent Bridge from the city, home to the Trent Bridge Test cricket ground. Across its wards, from Trent Bridge out to Edwalton and Gamston, 42% of homes are detached, and the Edwardian and interwar houses have deep roofs with room for a full array. Lady Bay and the streets by the river get a flood-risk check before we decide where the battery goes.
Beeston
NG9 · Broxtowe Borough Council
Next to the University of Nottingham and the Boots site on the city's south-west edge, with two conservation areas, the West End and St John's Grove. In the Beeston Central ward a quarter of homes are flats and two households in five have no car; down in Rylands, between the railway and the Trent, the flood map decides where the battery and inverter go.
Arnold
NG5 · Gedling Borough Council
Gedling's main town, north of the city. It has no conservation area of its own (all seven in the borough are villages), so roof solar, a battery and a heat pump are usually permitted development here. Nearly half the homes in the Plains ward are detached, while Daybrook is mostly semis and terraces.
Hucknall
NG15 · Ashfield District Council
A former pit town at the end of the tram line, where Lord Byron is buried in the church on the market place, and the town centre is a conservation area. Across the four Hucknall wards 41% of homes are semis, the classic solar-and-battery house, and the Hucknall West ward is two-fifths detached.
Long Eaton
NG10 · Erewash Borough Council
Over the county line in Derbyshire, though its postcode is Nottingham's: a lace town on the Erewash Canal with conservation areas covering the town centre, the old lace factories and Derby Road, and another at Sawley. Across Long Eaton and Sawley nearly half the homes are semis, and the low land by the Trent means a flood check before choosing where the battery goes.
Stapleford
NG9 · Broxtowe Borough Council
Two conservation areas: Church Street, around St Helen's and its Anglo-Saxon cross, and Nottingham Road, where framework knitters' cottages make up most of its twelve listed buildings. Away from those, the semis that make up 43% of the town's homes are straightforward roofs.
Newark
NG24 · Newark and Sherwood District Council
A castle and Civil War town on the Trent, with a large conservation area, extended in 2022, and Article 4 directions on a number of 18th and 19th-century houses in Balderton Gate, King Street, Parliament Street and Victoria Street. Across the district 7% of homes burn oil, more than twice England's share, so the villages around it are heat pump country.
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0, adapted, via Wikimedia Commons
Nottingham homes, and what suits them
The Victorian terraces of Sneinton, Forest Fields, Hyson Green, Lenton and Sherwood have long, narrow roofs, often split by a rear outrigger, so one good slope of eight to ten panels is typical, with the inverter in the loft and a battery under the stairs or in the back kitchen. The big Victorian villas of The Park and Mapperley Park are a different job: slate roofs, chimneys and mature trees mean we model the shading rather than guess, and both are conservation areas.
The interwar and post-war estates at Aspley, Bilborough, Bestwood and Clifton are the city's simplest roofs: plain gables, concrete tiles and a garden with room for a heat pump. Wollaton West is the city's detached corner, 62% detached, where a larger array, a second battery and an EV charger start to make sense together.
In the city centre and the Castle ward most homes are flats, and nearly half are heated by electricity alone; anyone there with a roof of their own does best with a battery on an overnight tariff. Outside the city, more than four homes in five in Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe heat with mains gas alone, so solar and a battery come first and a heat pump follows when the boiler is due.
Planning and conservation areas
Nottingham City Council has 31 conservation areas, from the Lace Market, the Castle and The Park in the centre to Mapperley Park and Alexandra Park, Sherwood Rise, the Arboretum and Sneinton, and the old villages of Wollaton, Clifton and Wilford. Article 4 directions remove some permitted development rights in Sneinton, Waterloo Promenade, Wellington Terrace, Devonshire Promenade, Foxhall Road and Strelley Village, and from a number of individual houses. In a conservation area, roof panels are normally still permitted development, sited to keep their effect on the street small, but panels on a wall facing the road and a heat pump on the front of the house need planning permission. We check the council's map at the survey and make the application for you if one is needed.
Around the city, Broxtowe has 16 conservation areas, including Beeston West End, Bramcote, Chilwell and the two in Stapleford; Rushcliffe's are mostly villages, such as Ruddington, Bingham, East Bridgford and Edwalton; Gedling's seven are all villages, the newest being Gedling Village; and Newark and Sherwood has 47. Outside conservation areas and listed buildings, roof solar, batteries and air source heat pumps are permitted development on most houses across the county.
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What we fit in Nottingham.
Solar panels
Solar and battery starting at £6,995 installed. 0% VAT until March 2027.
Battery storage
Sized to how you actually use power, not to fill a wall. 0% VAT until March 2027.
Air source heat pumps
£7,500 or £9,000 off under the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, claimed for you. 0% VAT until March 2027.
EV chargers
Fixed prices from £1,195 fitted, VAT included. Pick your charger, pay online, and we fit it.
Air conditioning
Priced per room. 0% VAT on a fixed system in your home until March 2027.
Commercial
Solar, batteries and air conditioning for Nottingham businesses, schools and farms.
Questions from Nottingham.
Who do you need permission from to connect solar in Nottingham?
National Grid Electricity Distribution runs the network across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, in its East Midlands area, and that includes Long Eaton over the Derbyshire border and Newark. A typical home system is notified to them after the install under G98; a bigger inverter or a large battery needs a G99 application first, which can take several weeks. We make the application and deal with them for you.
I live in The Park or Mapperley Park. Can I have solar panels?
Usually, yes. Both are conservation areas, and roof panels there are normally still permitted development, sited to keep their effect on the street small. Panels on a wall facing the road need planning permission, a listed building needs listed building consent, and a few houses in the city's conservation areas have Article 4 directions of their own. We check your address against the council's records at the survey and, if consent is needed, prepare and submit the application.
Is a heat pump worth it in an oil-heated village near Newark?
That is where it makes most sense. Oil and LPG cost more per unit of heat than a heat pump does to run, and a home coming off oil or LPG gets the higher £9,000 Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant, taken off the price up front. Older farmhouses and cottages are often fine with a few larger radiators; we size it from a room-by-room heat loss survey, not from the old boiler.
My terrace in Sneinton has no drive. What can I do?
Panels on the best slope and a battery charged on a cheap overnight tariff are usually the biggest saving for a city terrace. A home EV charger needs a parking space on your own property, so without a drive it is not an option, but nearly two city households in five have no car anyway.
Do you cover the whole of Nottinghamshire?
Yes: the city and every district around it, from Beeston, Hucknall and Arnold to Bingham, Southwell and Newark, plus Long Eaton and Ilkeston over the Derbyshire border. Mansfield has a page of its own. We fit anywhere in the country, so if your postcode is not listed, put it in anyway.
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