Solar panels, batteries and heat pumps in Rotherham
MCS-certified solar, batteries, heat pumps and EV chargers across Rotherham, from Kimberworth to Maltby.
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Solar panel installers for Rotherham.
Rotherham is semi-detached country: nearly half the borough's homes are semis, more than anywhere else in South Yorkshire and well above the 31.5% across England. Most of them sit on simple gable roofs with a garden behind, and 83% of homes are heated by mains gas alone, so solar with a battery is the usual starting point here, with a heat pump when the boiler is due. Out east, around Dinnington and the Anstons, the villages thin out from the gas main and the answer starts to change.
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
- S60–S66 for the town and most of the borough (S60 the centre, Moorgate, Whiston, Brinsworth and Treeton, S61 Kimberworth, Greasbrough and Thorpe Hesley, S62 Rawmarsh and Parkgate, S63 Wath-upon-Dearne, S64 Swinton, S65 Eastwood, Dalton and Thrybergh, S66 Wickersley, Bramley, Thurcroft and Maltby), plus S25 for Dinnington and the Anstons and S26 for Aston, Swallownest and Wales
- Network operator (DNO)
- Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire). We make the G98 notification or G99 application for your solar or battery; you do not need to contact them.
Near Rotherham.
We cover Rotherham and everywhere around it. A few of the places nearby, and what tends to matter there.
Wickersley
S66 · Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
A village east of the town with a conservation area over its old centre. Wickersley North ward is 56% semis and 85% on mains gas, and only one household in five has no car, so panels, a battery and an EV charger on the drive often go in together.
Rawmarsh
S62 · Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
On the hill above Parkgate, north of the town. Rawmarsh East ward is 55% semis but 30% of households have no car, so a battery on a cheap overnight tariff usually comes before an EV charger; Rawmarsh West has more detached houses (19%) and more drives.
Kimberworth
S61 · Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
On the ridge west of the town centre, above the Don valley. Rotherham West ward, which takes in Kimberworth, is 46% semis and 27% terraced, and Kimberworth Park, in Keppel ward, 54% semis. Hillside streets mean plenty of east and west-facing roofs, which still give about four-fifths of a south one.
Maltby
S66 · Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
A former pit town at the borough's eastern edge, where Maltby Main closed in 2013, with the ruins of Roche Abbey just to the south-east. Maltby East ward is 40% terraced, while Hellaby & Maltby West is 45% detached, so the roofs here run from a single terrace slope to a large detached house with room for a bigger array.
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The houses here, and what works on them
The borough's interwar and post-war semis are its easiest solar roofs: simple gables, concrete tiles and a garden with room for a heat pump. Sitwell ward, which takes in Moorgate and Whiston, is 69% semis, Dalton & Thrybergh 67% and Brinsworth 66%. Bramley & Ravenfield and Hellaby & Maltby West are nearly half detached, with bigger roofs and drives, and that is where a larger array, a second battery and an EV charger fit naturally.
Closer to the centre, Boston Castle ward has 22% purpose-built flats, nearly 10% of homes heated by electricity alone and a third of households without a car; for anyone there with a roof of their own, a battery charged on a cheap overnight tariff cuts the bill the most. Out east, Anston & Woodsetts is 39% detached and 2% on oil, and the stone cottages in the villages around it lose more heat than a modern semi, so a heat pump there is sized from a room-by-room heat loss survey rather than from the old boiler.
Planning and conservation areas
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has 28 conservation areas, including Rotherham Town Centre, Moorgate, Wickersley, Whiston, Wentworth, Greasbrough, Thorpe Hesley, Wath-upon-Dearne, Swinton, North and South Anston, and Laughton-en-le-Morthen, and Wentworth Woodhouse and many of the estate buildings around it are listed. In a conservation area, roof panels are normally still permitted development, but panels on a wall facing the road and a heat pump on a wall or roof facing the road need planning permission, and a listed building needs listed building consent. Outside those, roof solar, batteries and air source heat pumps are permitted development on most houses in the borough; we check the council's map at the survey and make the application for you if one is needed.
What the figures say about Rotherham homes.
What the public data says about homes here, and what it means for yours.
952 kWh
a year from each kW of panels
A south-facing roof at 35° in central Rotherham, 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 moving the daytime surplus into the evening.
Source: PVGIS (European Commission Joint Research Centre), central Rotherham
49%
of Rotherham homes are semis
49.2%, against 38% in Sheffield and 31.5% across England, with 22% detached and 18% terraced. A semi usually has one good main slope for panels, a loft for the inverter and a side or back wall for a heat pump.
Source: Census 2021, TS044 accommodation type (ONS, via Nomis)
83%
of homes heated by mains gas alone
82.8%, against 74% across England, and only 3.3% heated by electricity alone. For most homes here a heat pump replaces a gas boiler, with the standard £7,500 Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant, and solar with a battery helps keep its running cost down.
Source: Census 2021, TS046 central heating (ONS, via Nomis)
4%
of Dinnington ward homes on oil or LPG
2.9% on oil and 1.1% on tank or bottled gas, against 0.5% on oil across the borough. The villages around Dinnington, the Anstons and Woodsetts are where a heat pump replaces the dearest heat, with the higher £9,000 grant for homes coming off oil or LPG.
Source: Census 2021, TS046 central heating (ONS, via Nomis), 2022 wards
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Everything we install across Rotherham.
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 Rotherham businesses, schools and farms.
What Rotherham homeowners ask us.
Who runs the electricity network in Rotherham?
Northern Powergrid covers the whole borough, from Wath and Swinton to Maltby, Dinnington and Aston. 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; you do not need to contact them yourself.
I live in Wickersley's conservation area. Can I still have solar panels?
Usually yes. In the conservation area, roof panels are normally still permitted development, but panels on a wall facing the road, or a heat pump on a wall or roof facing the road, need planning permission, and a listed building needs listed building consent. We check your house against the council's map at the survey and, if consent is needed, prepare and submit the application.
I have a gas boiler in a semi. Is a heat pump worth it?
It can be, if the house suits one. The standard £7,500 Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant comes off the price up front, and running costs depend mostly on how well the system is designed and which tariff you are on, which is why panels and a battery pair well with it. We size it from a room-by-room heat loss survey and tell you plainly if your house is not ready for one yet.
I live in a village off the gas, out past Dinnington. What makes sense?
Usually a heat pump, with panels to help run it. Oil and LPG cost more per unit of heat than a heat pump does to run, and a home coming off either gets the higher £9,000 Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant, taken off the price up front.
Do you cover the whole of Rotherham?
Yes: the town and every part of the borough, including Wickersley, Bramley, Rawmarsh, Kimberworth, Maltby, Wath, Swinton, Dinnington, the Anstons, Aston and Thurcroft. Sheffield, Doncaster and Barnsley have pages of their own. We fit anywhere in the country, so if your postcode is just outside, put it in anyway.
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