About Plug and Play Solar Kits

Plug-in solar became legal here on 27 August 2026, and the information about it is a mess. Some of it is out of date, some is European guidance that does not apply, and a lot of it is written by people trying to sell you a kit. This site exists to be the version you can check.

Who writes it

One person, independently, in the British Isles. This is not a company with a newsroom, and it is not a retailer with a blog attached. It is a small independent publisher that reads the regulations, queries the data, checks the register and writes up what is actually true.

We publish under the name of the site rather than a personal byline, which is a deliberate choice: what matters is whether a claim is right, and every claim here is linked to its source with the date we read it so you can check us rather than trust us. When the business name is registered we will name it here.

There is no sponsor, no investor and no parent company. Nobody has a say in what goes on this site.

How we work

• We cite the source and the date we read it. Every page that states a rule links to the legislation, the product specification or the official guidance behind it. If you think we have it wrong, you can check us without taking our word for anything.
• We say when we do not know. Where the position is unsettled, or a source could not be confirmed, we say so on the page instead of filling the gap with something plausible. There are several such notes on this site.
• We never invent evidence. No made-up reviews, ratings, statistics or test results. We have not physically tested these kits and we do not pretend otherwise.
• We update rather than quietly rewrite. Pages carry the date they were last updated. When a rule changes, it goes in the news.
• We publish the awkward answers. Our own guides tell you when a kit is a bad buy, why you probably will not be paid for your surplus, and that you cannot have a battery. A site funded by commission has every incentive to skip those. We would rather be the site you come back to.

How this site makes money

At the moment, it does not. There are no shop links, no adverts and no commission arrangements anywhere on this site, and we are not paid by anyone we write about.

One point of detail, so this is not misread. A few of the kits on the register are sold under the name of the company that registered them, and some of those companies are retailers. Where that is the case the name appears in the tracker, because it is the name of the product. We do not link to them, we do not recommend them over anything else, and we earn nothing either way.

That is deliberate rather than accidental. The plan is to earn affiliate commission from retailers in future. Until an agreement is actually in place, sending you to a shop would mean giving that shop free traffic and giving you no reason to trust the recommendation.

When that changes, you will be able to tell. Any link that earns us money will be labelled as such, on the page, next to the link. The affiliate disclosure will appear on every page that carries one. Commission will never change which kit we say is right for you, and we will keep publishing the cases where the answer is “do not buy one”.

One exception worth naming now: we sometimes mention shops that have no affiliate programme at all, such as the supermarkets, purely as a matter of fact when readers ask whether a particular kit is on the compliant list. Those mentions are never links and we earn nothing from them.

Where our figures come from

• The rules: the regulations on legislation.gov.uk, the Plug-in Solar Device Interim Product Specification, the government’s consultation response, and Energy Saving Trust guidance.
• Kit compliance: the ENA Connect Direct Type Test Register, which is the official record. Every kit we list links to its own entry there.
• Sunshine figures: PVGIS 5.3 from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, queried directly for thirteen reference cities across Britain.
• Electricity prices: the Ofgem price cap.
• Prices of kits: checked on the sellers’ own websites, with the date we checked shown beside each one. Prices move, so treat them as a guide.

Our kit tracker is our own research, not a copy of the ENA register. The register is the official record and we link to each entry so you can confirm the status yourself.

What this site is not

We are not electricians, and nothing here is advice about the wiring in your particular house. Where the safety guidance says to get a professional to look at something, please do that. We are also not a substitute for your own reading of your lease, your tenancy or your insurance policy.

The rules described here cover England, Scotland and Wales only. They do not cover Northern Ireland, and they do not cover the Crown Dependencies, which each have their own arrangements. If you live outside England, Scotland or Wales, treat everything here as background reading and check your own position locally before you buy anything.

Spotted a mistake?

Please tell us. Getting something wrong on a page about electrical safety matters more than being embarrassed about it, and corrections are welcome from anyone, including the makers and retailers we write about.

Readers and corrections: hello@plugandplaysolarkits.co.uk
Retailers, makers and partnerships: partners@plugandplaysolarkits.co.uk