Where we work
Solar panels in the Wirral and MerseysideSolar, batteries and EV chargers across Merseyside and the Wirral.
Merseyside and the Wirral sit across the estuary from the base — Bebington is 4 miles away in a straight line. Wirral lists 26 conservation areas and Liverpool 36, so on a Liverpool or Wirral roof that check comes before the solar panels are designed, not after.
Merseyside & Wirral
Every town we cover here.
Straight-line distance from our base in Ellesmere Port, nearest first.
- Bebington 4 miles Wirral · England · battery storage · EV chargers
- Heswall 8 miles Wirral · England · battery storage · EV chargers
- Birkenhead 9 miles Wirral · England · battery storage · EV chargers
- Liverpool 9 miles Liverpool · England · battery storage · EV chargers
- Wallasey 11 miles Wirral · England · battery storage · EV chargers
- West Kirby 13 miles Wirral · England · battery storage · EV chargers
- Hoylake 13 miles Wirral · England · battery storage · EV chargers
- St Helens 14 miles St Helens · England · battery storage · EV chargers
- Southport 25 miles Sefton · England · battery storage · EV chargers
The roof studio
Turn the house, fill the roof.
A Cheshire semi on a turntable. Drag it round, then tell it about your roof and your house — the panels, the battery, the current running through it and the numbers all move together.
01Your roof
02Your house
Estimated generation
3,870
kWh a year
Estimated saving
£834
a year, saved and earned
Estimated payback
10.1
years
System size
4.40 kWp
Panels
10
Your use covered
58%
Of what the roof generates
Worked out for a typical Cheshire roof at the pitch and aspect you picked, on a unit rate of 28p and an export rate of 6.5p — rates this tool assumes, dated September 2026, rather than any tariff you have been offered. Nothing here is a quotation: your roof, your shading and how much electricity you use while the sun is up are what the survey settles.
Take the figures with you.
Copy what the studio worked out for your roof, or send it straight to us with a survey request. None of it is a quote: the survey replaces every figure above with your own.
Every assumption behind the numbers
- Unit rate
- 28p for every unit (kWh) you’d otherwise buy from the grid.
- Export rate
- 6.5p for every unit the house and battery can’t use and send back to the grid.
- Your yearly use
- Worked out from your monthly bill at the 28p unit rate, after a standing charge of about 36p a day — and never less than 1,100 kWh a year.
- What a panel makes
- Each panel is 440 W (0.44 kWp). A kWp makes 880 kWh a year facing south, 760 facing east–west and 620 facing north-ish. For this part of Cheshire the EU’s PVGIS model gives 951 for a south roof at a typical pitch — the studio stays below it.
- Pitch
- Shallow (28°) makes 95% of a typical 38° roof; steep (48°) makes 97%.
- Shading
- A bit of shade costs 10%; heavy shade costs 24%.
- How many panels
- Two rows, growing with your bill from three columns to eight — six panels up to sixteen.
- How much you use yourself
- The share of what the roof makes that the house uses: 30% if you’re usually out, 46% in and out, 62% usually home. A battery adds 24 points and a car charger 6, up to 86% — and never more than 62% of your whole year’s use.
- Saving
- The units you use yourself at 28p, plus the units you export at 6.5p.
- Payback
- The yearly saving set against what a system like the one you’ve built typically costs to install: a base figure, an amount for each panel, and more again for a battery or a charger. The answer is held between 4 and 25 years. The studio never shows that cost, because only a survey can price your roof — so treat the years as a rough guide, not a figure to hold us to.
Monthly and yearly sunshine for this area: PVGIS 5.2, EU Joint Research Centre. The unit rate, the export rate and the standing charge are the studio’s own assumptions, set in September 2026 — not a tariff we have quoted you. Your own rates are on your bill, and a survey works from those.
The coverage map
Merseyside & Wirral on the map.
The wires
Who runs the network here.
Which distribution network you sit on decides who signs off the connection, and on what terms.
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Every Merseyside and Wirral town on this page — Bebington, Heswall, Birkenhead, Wallasey, West Kirby, Hoylake, Liverpool and St Helens — is inside SP Energy Networks’ SP Manweb licence area.
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Southport sits on a network edge: the town and its centre are on SP Manweb, but homes on the West Lancashire edge, in Halsall and Scarisbrick parishes, are served by SP Electricity North West.
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In SP Manweb’s area a single generator under 16A per phase (3.68kW) is notified “before or at the time of commissioning”, and the commissioning confirmation is submitted “within 30 days of commissioning”.
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Every install is notified to that operator — how G98 and G99 work.
Planning
What the planning rules say here.
Most domestic solar is permitted development, with conditions. These are the ones that apply here.
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Rooftop solar on a house in England is permitted development under Part 14, Class A of the GPDO 2015. On the text as amended on 27 August 2026, panels on a pitched roof may protrude no more than 0.2 metres and may not rise above the highest part of the roof, chimneys excluded; on a flat roof the limit is 0.6 metres.
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If your roof is listed, flat or in a conservation area, say so on the first call — it changes the design, not the answer. When solar panels need planning permission, and how panels go on a flat roof.
Council schemes
Council solar schemes in Merseyside & Wirral.
A search for solar here turns up council-backed group buys as well as installers. They are run by the councils, not by us — this is how each one works.
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Solar Together, Liverpool City Region. The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has run Solar Together for Wirral residents and small businesses: free registration, a reverse auction among pre-approved installers, and panels, battery storage and EV charge points on offer. When Wirral Council announced the round on 27 October 2025, registration was due to close on 17 November, so look for whether a new round is open.
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Warm Homes Local Grant. Announced in the same Wirral Council round-up: a Combined Authority grant for homeowners whose house is rated EPC D, E, F or G and who are on a lower income, receive means-tested benefits or live in an eligible postcode. A council-approved contractor carries out a retrofit assessment first, and the measures can include solar panels as well as insulation and heat pumps.
wirralview.com · wirral.gov.uk
Whichever route you take, ask for MCS certification — the Smart Export Guarantee depends on it — and for the network notification to be handled for you. How a direct install runs.
Planning authorities
Who decides planning in Merseyside & Wirral.
4 authorities cover the towns on this page. Each one publishes its own conservation-area map — worth a look before anything goes on a front elevation.
- Wirral Councilwirral.gov.uk
- Liverpool City Councilliverpool.gov.uk
- St Helens Borough Councilsthelens.gov.uk
- Sefton Councilsefton.gov.uk
Merseyside & Wirral · questions
What people ask about Merseyside & Wirral.
If yours isn’t here, give us a ring and ask, or see every question.
SP Energy Networks, under its SP Manweb licence — the same operator as our Ellesmere Port base, so a connection works the same way on both banks of the Mersey. One generator below 16A per phase is notified under G98, before or on the day it is switched on, with the commissioning paperwork due within 30 days; anything bigger goes through G99. St Helens is on the same network.
Mostly. Southport’s centre and most of the town are SP Manweb, but the town straddles a licence boundary: a strip of homes in Halsall and Scarisbrick parishes, on the West Lancashire side, is on SP Electricity North West. To be sure for one house, look at the MPAN on the bill — a distributor ID of 13 is SP Manweb, 16 is SP Electricity North West.
Not the roof slope itself: it is not excluded, so panels there can still be permitted development. The limits fall elsewhere — nothing on a wall, balcony or roof enclosure that fronts a highway, and a flat-roof array needs prior approval of its appearance first. Liverpool has 36 conservation areas covering 19,000 properties and warns that an Article 4 direction may apply; Wirral has 26, Port Sunlight and Hamilton Square among them. A listed house needs consent whatever the roof.
Nine miles in a straight line, across the estuary from Ellesmere Port. Bebington is the nearest town on this page at four miles, Birkenhead is nine, and Southport, the furthest, is 25.
One of four. Wirral Council decides for Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington, Heswall, West Kirby and Hoylake; Liverpool City Council for Liverpool; St Helens Borough Council for St Helens; and Sefton Council for Southport. Each keeps its own map of conservation areas.
Wirral Council’s October 2025 round-up named two, both run at city-region level. One was a group buy that any resident or small business could join, with installers bidding for the work. The other, a grant, is far narrower: it is for homeowners in a poorly rated house who also meet an income, benefits or postcode test, and the work follows a retrofit assessment. Schemes like these open and close, so check the council’s energy advice pages for what is running now.
The same as anywhere else we work, since nothing about the price is local. It comes from the size of the system and the roof it goes on — slope, direction, shading, and how hard it is to get scaffold up — and from whether a battery or a car charger goes in alongside. To put numbers to your own roof, try the roof studio on our home page with an electricity bill to hand; the survey then settles the design.
Data last reviewed: September 2026.
From the Google profile
What people say after we have been.
4 of our 39 Google reviews, word for word. The rest are on the reviews page.
The work itself
Three of our own roofs.
Finished arrays from our own jobs.
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A detached house under scaffold, the new array on its tiles
What we do here
Solar panels, batteries and car chargers in the Wirral and Merseyside.
What we fit
- Solar PVPanels sized to your roof and your bills
- Battery storageKeep the midday surplus for the evening
- EV chargingA charger that can follow the sun
- Retrofit batteryStorage added to panels you already own
The kit we fit
- Tesla Powerwall installer, Merseyside & WirralHome battery with the solar inverter built in
- Fox ESS installer, Merseyside & WirralHybrid inverters and stacked EP batteries
- EcoFlow installer, Merseyside & WirralPowerOcean: hybrid inverter over stacked packs
- Hypervolt installer, Merseyside & WirralHome EV charger with solar-only charging modes
Start here
Start with a conversation, not a quote.
Tell us the postcode and roughly what you use. We’ll tell you honestly whether the roof is worth doing — and if it isn’t, that’s a perfectly good answer too.
- Takes about a minute
- You get a person, not a brochure
- No obligation, and no visit until you ask for one