Solar panel installation
Roof-mounted solar PV for houses and bungalows, designed around your roof, shading and how you use electricity. Get quotes from local MCS-certified installers.
DetailsSolar panels, home batteries, EV chargers and repairs
Tell us about your property, your roof and what you'd like to achieve. We pass your enquiry to vetted local MCS-certified solar and battery installers who cover your area, and they survey and quote you directly. Nothing is booked until you accept.
About Kent Solar & Battery
Kent Solar & Battery is a free matching service for Kent homeowners and small businesses who are thinking about solar panels, a home battery, an EV charger or a repair to an existing system. Instead of ringing round installers one by one, you describe your property and goals once. We pass your enquiry to vetted local MCS-certified solar and battery installers working in your area, from Dartford and Medway to Canterbury, Thanet and Folkestone. They look at your roof, shading and electricity use, and quote you directly. Whether solar suits you depends on your property, so a proper survey comes first. You choose who to use, and your agreement is with that business. Kent Solar & Battery is managed by Astute Management in Gravesend.
Solar and battery services
Roof-mounted solar PV for houses and bungalows, designed around your roof, shading and how you use electricity. Get quotes from local MCS-certified installers.
DetailsA new solar system with a home battery, so more of the electricity you generate can be used in the evening. Find local installers who design both together.
DetailsAlready have panels? A battery can be added to many existing systems, with or without a new inverter. Get quotes from local battery installers.
DetailsA home charge point on your driveway or garage wall, with the option to use your own solar. Find local installers who fit smart chargers.
DetailsSolar for small business premises, farm buildings, barns and workshops, on the roof or the ground. Get quotes from local commercial solar installers.
DetailsFault-finding, replacement inverters, health checks and bird proofing for existing solar systems. Find local installers who look after systems they didn't fit.
DetailsWhy use us
Describe your property and goals once. We pass it to installers who cover your postcode, so you don't have to chase quote after quote.
Enquiries go to installers certified under MCS for solar PV and battery work, which matters for SEG export payments and your paperwork.
Whether solar suits you depends on your roof, shading and usage. Installers survey and quote, and nothing is booked until you accept.
Your agreement is with the business you pick. Check its MCS certificate, insurance, consumer code membership and how deposits are protected.
Areas we cover
Guides
Typical UK price ranges for solar panels and home batteries, the extras that change a quote, the 0% VAT rate until March 2027, and how to test the savings figures an installer gives you.
Read the guideHow a battery works with solar panels, how to size one, how tariffs change the picture, AC and DC coupling, adding a battery to an existing system, Feed-in Tariff rules, power cuts and where a battery can safely go.
Read the guideWhich way your roof faces, pitch and space, shading, the condition and structure of the roof, flat roofs, the permitted development rules updated in August 2026, listed buildings and flats, Building Regulations and grid notification.
Read the guideHow to check an installer's MCS certification and consumer protection, what a proper survey and quote should include, how to read the MCS generation estimate, the paperwork you should get, how export payments work and how to look after the system.
Read the guideA survey and quote before you commit
Tell us about your property, your roof and what you'd like to achieve. Local MCS-certified installers come back to you, and nothing is booked until you accept.
Get a quoteFAQs
No. Kent Solar & Battery is a free matching service. We pass your enquiry to vetted local solar and battery installers, who survey, quote and carry out the work. Your agreement is with the business you choose.
No. Sending an enquiry is free and there's no obligation to accept any quote.
Usually not for panels on a house roof, provided they meet permitted development limits, including not projecting more than 200 mm from a pitched roof. Listed buildings and some walls and roof enclosures in conservation areas are treated differently. Check the Planning Portal or your council.
All of Kent, organised into 12 areas: Dartford, Gravesend, Medway, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells, Ashford, Canterbury, Thanet, Folkestone and Hythe, Dover and Deal, and Swale.
We check that businesses are established local firms with appropriate insurance and MCS certification. You should still look up their certification on the MCS website, ask whether they belong to a consumer code such as RECC or HIES, check how deposits are protected and agree a written contract before work starts.