What do solar panels cost in Herefordshire?

Most solar pages dodge this question. You get a form to fill in and a salesman rings you back.

Here are the numbers.

Guide prices, installed

System	Panels	Installed
3kW	around 8	£5,000 to £6,500
4kW	around 10	£6,000 to £8,000
5kW	around 13	£7,000 to £9,500
6kW	around 16	£8,000 to £11,000

Those include the scaffolding, which is worth checking when you compare quotes because it is not always in the price you are shown.

A battery adds £3,000 to £5,000 depending on size. More on whether you need one in a minute.

4kW is the size most Herefordshire houses end up at. Ten panels, and it fits on a lot of standard roofs without anyone getting creative.

No VAT on any of it until March 2027

Solar and battery storage fitted at a home are zero rated for VAT until 31 March 2027, then it goes to 5%.

That is not a discount anyone is offering you. It is the full 20% simply not being there, worth £1,000 or more on a typical system. Anybody quoting you plus VAT on a domestic install has got it wrong.

A battery counts on its own too, so panels this year and storage next year still pays no VAT on either, as long as the second job happens before the deadline.

What moves the number inside those ranges

The roof covering. Plain tile, interlocking, slate. Different fixings, different time on the roof.

Access. A straightforward two storey front elevation is quick. An awkward corner, a conservatory in the way, or a roof you can only reach across someone else’s ground is not.

Your fuseboard. A solar system feeds back through its own protected way. If your board is old or full, that gets sorted as part of the job, and we price it at survey rather than adding it to the invoice later.

Shading. If any part of the roof catches shade we fit optimisers across the whole array, and they cost money. Worth it, because one shaded panel otherwise drags the whole string down.

Panel choice. If roof space is tight, higher output panels fit more into less area. They cost more per panel and sometimes that is the right answer.

The one nobody mentions until install day

If your roof needs recovering in the next few years, do that first.

Taking an array down and putting it back means paying for scaffolding twice and a day of labour you did not need to spend. We would rather tell you at survey and see you in three years than take the job now.

Is it worth it?

Depends on your house, and mostly on when you use power.

Most of this county is off mains gas, so houses run on oil, LPG or electricity and the bills are bigger than the national average. That works in your favour before we have looked at anything.

The other half is timing. Panels make their power in the middle of the day. If somebody is home then, or you run a workshop, or you charge an EV during daylight, you use what you make and the sums are strong. If the house is empty from eight until six, a battery does a lot of the heavy lifting and that changes the total.

How to get a real number for your house

WhatsApp a photo of the roof from the garden and a recent electricity bill. That tells us most of what we need, and you get an honest starting point back rather than an appointment booked in your front room.

If it looks worth doing, the survey is free, the quote is fixed and in writing, and you are welcome to take it to anyone else. We would rather lose a job on price than win one by being vague about it.