A market that is four weeks old
Plug-in solar went legal in Great Britain on 27 August 2026. Anyone can plug one in. What they cannot do is fit the outdoor socket, or touch the circuit. That is your work, and right now almost nobody is in front of those people.
We are not going to quote you enquiry volumes, conversion rates or a cost per lead. The product has been legal for a matter of weeks and nobody has a defensible number yet. Anyone showing you one made it up. We will give you real figures when we have them.
A plug-in device is sold as something you fit yourself, and mostly it is. Three things in the rules put an electrician back in the room.
An outdoor plug and socket means an IP55 rating or better on the socket. That is a fitting job on most properties.
Where connection needs the circuit's overcurrent protection device replaced, the specification is explicit that only a qualified electrician may do it.
Users are told to get a qualified electrician to inspect any socket whose condition or suitability they are unsure about.
Fire risk in older housing stock was a running theme in the consultation responses. Those are the households most likely to want a trade opinion before they buy.
All four come from the Plug-in Solar Device Interim Product Specification, Version 2.0, July 2026, and the government response to the consultation.
We do not buy them. We run the guides people land on when they search whether they are allowed one, and we publish the answers nobody else will.
The network is twenty three separate sites: national guides on the law, the limits, the prices and the kit, and regional guides built on each area's own network operator and planning rules. They rank because they are accurate and sourced, not because they are stuffed with the same copy twenty three times.
The commercially useful part is that our guides say no. A homeowner whose balcony is timber is not covered by the permitted development right, and we tell them so rather than sell them a panel. The ones who reach you are the ones who can actually proceed.
Tell us where you work and what you do. We are signing up the first electricians and retailers now, before the network carries real traffic.
Tell us the trade you are in and the postcode areas you cover. We will come back with what we can supply in your area and what it will cost, once the network is carrying enough traffic to promise anything. We would rather tell you later and be right.