Home energy in Kent,
explained clearly.
Solar, battery storage, EV charging and heat pumps for Kent homes: independent guidance on a free remote design call, then an MCS-certified installation team for your area when you are ready. PVGIS puts a Kent roof at 1,075 kWh per kWp a year, 16% above the mean of our 85 county estimates.
Start with your postcode
Free, no obligation. Takes about two minutes, and nobody visits your home.
Four routes, one honest conversation
Each guide explains the technology in plain English. Your free call makes it specific to your Kent home: the roof, the usage, the tariff.
Solar PV
Panels sized to your roof and the way you actually use energy.
Read the guide →Battery Storage
Store cheap off-peak power and your own solar, skip peak rates.
Read the guide →EV Charging
The right charger and tariff make overnight the cheapest miles.
Read the guide →Heat Pumps
Efficient electric heating, with grant support in England and Wales.
Read the guide →Remote first. Local when it matters.
The design call happens on video, wherever in Kent you are. The installation, if you go ahead, is carried out by an MCS-certified installation team for your area.
Tell us about your home
Two minutes on the form. Property, roughly what you spend, and what you are interested in.
Free remote design call
A video call, not a home visit. We look at your roof and usage together and talk through what fits.
Home survey and written quote
When you are ready, a home survey confirms the design at your property and your written quote follows. MCS is the certification most export tariffs require an installation to hold before they pay you.
Install day and switch-on
The installation team for your area fits the system and handles the paperwork, backed by their own MCS certification, insurance and workmanship warranty.
What a roof in Kent can generate,
and what it would cost
Real satellite data for Kent, real installed pricing. Slide, tap and see the numbers move.
How Kent compares
Kent ranks 3rd of the 85 counties we track for solar yield, which puts export income near the top of the country. On the 12p scenario a 12 panel system here sends about 5,900 kWh to the grid a year on top of the £247 it saves you directly, so oversizing the array is usually the right call.
A 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in Kent generates around 6,837 kWh a year, worth around £955 in year one on the 12p export scenario.
The charger is in the installed price but left out of payback: charging savings depend on your mileage and tariff, which the design call models properly.
Price this properly, free →Your real roof, your real usage, on a free video call. No obligation.
Generation from PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC, SARAH3), retrieved August 2026 for a representative point in Kent (51.2489, 0.6745), assuming 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south. Import valued at 26.32p/kWh (Ofgem price cap average, Oct to Dec 2026); off-peak charging at 8p/kWh where used (a supplier's published EV off-peak rate, checked Aug 2026); export at the scenario you pick, from the dated tariff table. Prices are installed pricing, August 2026, standard installations; 530W LONGi panels at £1,000 per kWp. Estimates for illustration, not a quote: your free design call prices your actual roof.
Local detail for Kent
Kent County Council's own 2021 Census bulletin shows houses and bungalows dominating at 80.4% of households, with semi-detached the largest single category at 31.4%, close to the England and Wales figure, detached homes at 25.4% and terraces at 23.5%, both above the regional average. Purpose-built flats make up 14.0%, and the county's dwelling stock grew by 59,841 homes, or 9.4%, between the 2011 and 2021 censuses, so a fair share of Kent's roofs are on relatively new-build homes rather than older stock.
Kent sits in UK Power Networks territory, on its South Eastern Power Networks licence; the 45 working day industry standard applies to a standard low voltage generation quotation, with most single home systems using the quicker 28-day G98 route instead. Kent's twelve district and borough councils decide most planning applications, including household solar, while Kent County Council leads on strategic, minerals and waste planning; Kent Downs National Landscape, the renamed AONB, treats rooftop solar on existing buildings as generally compatible, unlike ground-mounted solar farms, which it usually resists.
Cleve Hill Solar Park, near Graveney between Faversham and Whitstable, is a 373MW solar farm with more than 550,000 panels plus battery storage, fully operational since summer 2025 and generating enough for more than 102,000 homes. UK Power Networks has also installed what it calls the UK's first smart electricity substation in Maidstone, using AI to free up to 50% more network capacity for new connections, solar included, across the South East.
Network operator (DNO): UK Power Networks · G99 application
mcscertified.com · kent.gov.uk · climatechange.maidstone.gov.uk
Common questions about solar in Kent
What could a roof in Kent generate?
PVGIS puts a roof in Kent at 1,075 kWh per kWp a year, 2.94 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons.
What does a typical solar system cost in Kent?
A typical 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in Kent costs around £6,360 installed, at £1,000 per kWp before any battery.
Would a system in Kent need approval from the network operator?
Kent's network operator (DNO) is UK Power Networks. Most home systems only need the simpler G98 notification, made after installation; larger systems need the fuller G99 process instead, applied for directly with UK Power Networks (their G99 page). Our G98 vs G99 guide explains the difference in full.
What would the payback be on a typical system in Kent?
On the 12p export scenario, that system pays back in around 6.7 years, from about £955 of estimated year one benefit.
Get your free quote
Takes about two minutes. We work out your options, then confirm your free remote design call, on video, at a time that suits you. It starts with your roof and your numbers, and the design is built around them rather than around a product someone needs to shift.
Towns we cover in Kent
Reading for Kent homeowners
The same guidance we would talk through on your call, written down and sourced.
Best solar panels UK 2026: what the datasheets actually say
One pick per job, the specs behind each, and what moves payback more than the badge.
Read the guide →What a battery gateway actually does
Without a gateway your system shuts down when the grid does. Here is what the box actually does.
Read the guide →Smart charge point regulations, explained
Why your charger arrives pre-set to charge overnight, and why it waits before it starts.
Read the guide →Are air source heat pumps any good? What owners actually report
The UK's largest survey found 80% of heat pump owners satisfied, against 70% for gas boilers.
Read the guide →Why the best export rates always carry conditions
The top export rates are acquisition offers. Here is how to price the condition.
Read the guide →HIES explained: what the badge actually protects, and when
What HIES protects: deposits up to 25 percent capped at 5,000 pounds, and your workmanship guarantee.
Read the guide →