Legal in Great Britain since 27 August 2026
Make your own electricity. From a balcony.
You can now plug a solar kit into a normal socket, but only a kit verified on the ENA register. We check the register every week, read every retailer's price, and put it all on one board with the date.
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IllustrationVerified kits you can buy today
Cheapest first. Retailer prices read 30 Sept 2026.
What a kit is worth to you
Ofgem cap from 1 October: 26.32p per kWh, VAT-free until March.
£70 to £110
a year, the government's own estimate for an 800 W kit with no battery.
£335
saved in one year by one owner with a STREAM Ultra battery on fence-hung panels. His data, published daily. See the video →
Run your own numbers
Postcode, panel direction, daytime use. Real PVGIS irradiance data.
This week on the register
Records come and go. We pull the register every week and write down what moved, with the reference numbers.
IllustrationGet an email when a kit passes, or a price drops
One email a week at most. The register moved three times in a fortnight in August; this is how you keep up without checking.