Live · the OMEGA retrofit
Watch your home, fully retrofitted with solar pv
One cinematic minute. Same house — your house — at every stage of the OMEGA retrofit. Click any chapter to jump. Tap the speaker to hear it.
Home energy upgrades
Solar panels, sized for your bills — not your roof
Most installers spec the system to fill the available roof. We spec it to match what you actually use at home during daylight, and the export tariff you switch to on commissioning day matters more than the brand of panel. Survey first, panels second.
Surveyed first
designed from heat-loss numbers, not a postcode estimate
Within the week
survey usually booked in 2–3 days, plan in writing 48 hours later
Your surveyor
MCS-certified, employed by OMEGA — not subcontracted
The plan is yours to keep. Take it to two other installers if you like.
Live · 2026 install figures
The numbers, at a glance.
Typical figures for a 3-bed UK home. Your real numbers come in writing within 48 hours of a free home survey.
Indicative cost
FROM
£4,800
/ £75 a month over 10 yr
Average yr-1 saving
£1,100
/yr
Typical system size
4
–6 kWp
Typical annual generation
3,800
–5,700 kWh
Typical annual saving
£1,100
+
Panel warranty
25years
Accreditation
MCS · RECC · NAPIT
About this service
Solar PV, designed properly.
If you've watched your electricity bill climb every winter and started wondering whether solar actually pays back any more, the honest answer is: on the right roof, with the right design, it pays back faster than it has in years. Most south-facing UK homes save £850–£1,150 a year before any export payments. The Smart Export Guarantee adds another £150–£250 on top. We're MCS-certified, which means every install qualifies for SEG and any grant that touches solar; before we quote, our surveyors model your last 12 months of usage against your roof's pitch, orientation and shading so the savings figure on your proposal is yours, not a brochure average. No oversizing, no upselling, and the SEG application is handled by us end-to-end.
What you get
- Typical 4kW system saves £1,100+ a year at current unit rates
- Smart Export Guarantee pays you for every kWh you export
- 25-year panel performance warranty, 12-year product warranty
- Battery-ready: add storage now or later without rewiring
- MCS-certified install — required for all incentive schemes
See the numbers
Solar PV — costs and savings, fitted for your home
Live tool, Q2 2026 prices. Slide through property size for an honest instant estimate — your real quote will come in writing within 48 hours of a free survey.
How it works
How it works, step by step.
01
Generation + savings modelling
We pull your last 12 months of electricity usage and model the system using MCS-approved irradiance data for your postcode.
02
Fixed-price design
Panel layout, inverter, optimisers (if shading), battery option — all priced in one quote with a 90-day price lock.
03
1–2 day install (lead MCS engineer named on day one)
OMEGA's own MCS engineers — never subcontracted, lead engineer is your single point of contact across survey, install, and the year-one health check. Scaffold up the day before. Day one: panels mounted on rails, electrical first-fix to inverter location. Day two: inverter, isolators, DC + AC commissioning, MCS certificate raised, monitoring app paired with your phone before we leave. NAPIT-registered electricians on every install. DNO G99 or G98 notification filed same-day.
04
Handover + app setup
SolarEdge or GivEnergy app set up on your phone before we leave. MCS certificate and Smart Export Guarantee application handled by us.
Accreditations that matter
Not logos. The certifications that matter for Solar PV.
Every one of these is checkable online. Every one changes something concrete about the job — the survey, the materials, the guarantees, the way the grants land.
MCS
Microgeneration Certification — solar, heat pumps, batteries
Without MCS you can't claim the Smart Export Guarantee, the BUS grant, or 0% VAT. We're fully certified.
NAPIT
Competent-person scheme for electrical work
Your consumer-unit work, EV charger, solar DC and battery wiring all get notified to Building Control by us — you don't pay Part P separately.
RECC
Renewable Energy Consumer Code
You get a 14-day cooling-off, a deposit protection scheme, and an independent dispute route. We'd rather never need it, but it's there.
TrustMark
The only endorsement scheme backed by the UK consumer body
Every install is lodged on the TrustMark register so your cover travels with the property.
Your numbers
Real numbers. Your postcode. Your home.
Type your postcode below. We pull the latest EPC for your home, blend in this month's Ofgem tariffs, and show you what you're paying this year — and what you could pay after the three upgrades most likely to make sense for a house like yours. No email. No follow-up. Just your numbers.
Model: NEED 2024 demand medians · Ofgem default tariff cap Apr 2026 (gas 5.9p · elec 27.7p · dual-fuel standing ~£328) · OMEGA install ledger 2026 retrofit-depth medians · ECO4/HUG2/BUS grant tables
OMEGA fleet · 2026 · Q2
Real numbers from real homes, this quarter.
Year-1 kWh metered after 12 months. Last quarter our predictions averaged within 6% of measured generation — refund triggers at 10%.
87
Solar arrays commissioned
£1,140
Average yr-1 generation value
±6%
Generation accuracy vs predicted
Generate + retain
Solar generates the power. Multifoil makes sure your home actually uses it.
Every kWh you generate from solar is worth more in a well-insulated home — because demand is lower, your generation covers a higher share of your annual use, and the export-back-to-grid figure drops in favour of self-consumption (which is worth more per kWh than the SEG export rate).
Solar PV — alone
- Annual saving
- £1,100/yr
- Payback
- 6–8 yr
- Solar bill-coverage
- ~50% bill-coverage
Solar PV + Multi-Foil Insulation
- Annual saving
- £1,740/yr
- Payback
- 5–6 yr
- Solar bill-coverage
- ~70% bill-coverage
Why pairing wins
- Multifoil lowers your annual demand — same solar array now covers a bigger share of your bill.
- Self-consumption beats SEG export every time — saves you 27p/kWh instead of 15p/kWh on every kWh you generate AND use yourself.
- A wrapped + powered home is the OMEGA flagship combination. We design the system around your real usage, not a brochure number.
The OMEGA Solar Generation Promise
We promise your year-one generation in writing — and refund the gap if we miss.
Every quote includes our predicted year-one generation in kWh, calculated from your roof's real solar profile (not a regional average). After 12 months we read your meter. If we missed by more than 10%, we refund the value of the missing kWh at the price you'd have paid for grid electricity that year.
If we miss
Refund equals (predicted kWh − actual kWh − 10% tolerance) × your import tariff at the time of the year-one read. Paid by bank transfer within 14 days of meter read.
Honest about who this isn't for
This isn't right for shaded north-facing roofs (we'll quote you out of the install rather than mis-sell) or for properties with planning constraints we can't resolve.
The measurable promise
±10%
Year-one kWh accuracy band
Independently measured before and after install. Written into your quote. Refundable if missed.
Pick your plan
How would you like to buy this?
Three ways to take this on. The middle one is what most homeowners choose — set-and-forget, no surprise bills, no chase. Pick the one that suits.
TIER 1
Install
MCS-certified solar, designed to your real roof + bill.
From £4,800cash£75 / momonthlyOver 10 years · finance subject to status
- Real-roof yield model (not regional average)
- MCS-certified design, NAPIT-registered electricals
- 25-yr panel warranty, 5-yr workmanship
- Year-one generation written into your quote
- Most chosen
TIER 2
Install + Solar Care
Cleaned and tested every year. Generation report each spring.
From £4,800cash£89.95 / momonthly£75 install + £14.95 Solar Care · cancel after year one
- Everything in Tier 1
- Annual deionised-water panel clean
- Annual performance health check + thermal scan
- Annual generation report vs predicted vs neighbours
- Bird-strike warranty top-up included
TIER 3
OMEGA Solar+
Care plan + Tariff Concierge — annual SEG and import review.
From £4,800cash£94.90 / momonthlyTier 2 + £4.95 Concierge · independent tariff routing
- Everything in Tier 2
- Annual review of SEG export tariff (Octopus Outgoing, etc.)
- Annual review of import tariff against your usage profile
- We file the supplier-switch paperwork on your behalf
- Year-one generation audit — refund if predicted misses by >10%
Tariff Concierge means we route you to the cheapest tariff that fits how you actually use power — not whichever supplier pays us most. We’re an installer, not an energy retailer. Most recommendations land on Octopus, but we run a full market check for every customer.
Solar add-ons
Worth adding to your install (or your existing setup).
Pricing is indicative — we re-quote against your real array on the survey. Bundle-pricing if you take more than one.
Maintenance
One-off panel clean
Lichen, dust, pollen, and bird strike all reduce generation by 5–15% over 12–18 months. Deionised water — no detergents, no roof tiles touched.
From £79One-offMaintenance
Most-recommended retrofitBird & nest protection (panel skirt)
Pigeons nest under panels, tear DC cabling, and most warranties name pest damage as exclusion. Stainless mesh installed around the array perimeter in half a day.
From £349One-off (lifetime)Performance
Annual performance health check
Inverter telemetry review, DC isolator IR test, thermal scan of every panel, written report against last year's measured generation.
£109/yrAnnualCapacity
Hot-water diverter (iBoost / Eddi)
Diverts excess generation to your immersion tank instead of exporting at SEG rate. Saves 30–60% of hot-water cost on a typical home.
£549 fittedOne-offCapacity
EV charger — paired install
Fitting an EV charger at the same time as the panels drops combined day-rate by ~£200 versus two separate visits. NICEIC-registered, OZEV-eligible.
£849 (combined)Add-on at installPerformance
Per-panel optimiser retrofit
For shaded arrays — chimney, dormer, neighbour's tree — adding optimisers under each panel recovers 20–25% of generation that string-inverter setups lose.
£45–65 per panelOne-offWarranty
Inverter extended warranty
Standard 5 years → 12 years. Covers the period when inverter failure is statistically most likely on UK arrays (years 7–11).
£179 one-offOne-offPerformance
Smart energy monitor
Wall-mounted display showing real-time generation, consumption, import, and export. Behaviour change alone lifts self-consumption 8–12%.
£229 fittedOne-off
Want a 2-minute answer first?
Not ready to book a full survey?
Tell us a bit about your place and we’ll come back with specific numbers for your home — no slot to pick, no pressure.
Prefer to talk now? Call free on 0800 229 4094.
Proof in the data
Solar PV — how the numbers stack up
Cumulative £ saved vs install cost for your property type. Drag the chart to scrub through the years.
Ready to see what solar pv would cost on your home?
Free 45-minute home energy survey — thermal imaging, grant check, written plan within 48 hours.
The plan is yours to keep. Take it to two other installers if you like.
Grants and funding
The grants you can get.
Eligibility changes often, the schemes don’t reward homeowners who fill the forms in themselves, and the paperwork is genuinely tedious. So we file it for you.
We handle the paperwork end-to-end
- ECO4 + GBIS — insulation, paid direct to us
- BUS — up to £7,500 off heat pumps
- SEG — export tariff registration
- OZEV / EVHS — EV charger grants
You sign once. We submit, evidence, and chase. The grant comes off your final invoice — nothing for you to claim back.
Smart Export Guarantee — paid per kWh exported
ECO4 funding — full or partial cover for eligible homes
0% VAT on new solar installs (to March 2027)
Common questions
Common questions, answered honestly.
How long does a solar install take?
Most domestic solar installs take 1–2 days on site, with scaffold going up the day before so we can start at first light. Day 1 covers the rails, panels, inverter and DC isolators; day 2 is the AC side, DNO notification, and the SolarEdge or GivEnergy app on your phone. A battery add-on adds another half-day; your surveyor confirms the exact slot once any DNO pre-approval has cleared.
What happens on a cloudy day?
Modern panels still generate around 10–25% of their rated output under heavy cloud — your roof keeps producing through every grey morning, just at a reduced rate. Annualised UK-specific irradiance data already builds British weather into every savings figure we quote, so the £-per-year number on your proposal is realistic, not a sunshine-best-case. We'll show you the modelled month-by-month generation curve for your specific roof on the survey.
Do I need planning permission?
Roof-mounted solar is permitted development for the vast majority of homes in our service area. Listed buildings and conservation areas need planning consent — we handle the application as part of our service.
Should I add a battery?
A battery adds 15–25% to your annual solar savings by storing daytime generation for evening peak use, plus another £200–£400 if you can pair it with a time-of-use tariff like Octopus Go. Payback on the battery alone runs 8–10 years, but it tightens to 5–7 years if you also run an EV or heat pump on the cheap-rate window. We size the inverter now to make adding a 5 kWh stack later a plug-and-play upgrade — never a re-wire job.
Real installs
Real projects near you.
Solar + battery install on a south-facing Cambridge townhouse
4.2kW solar array, 10kWh battery, SEG export tariff. Bill down from £1,840 to £312/year in the first 12 months.
- +12 points
- £1,528/yr saved
ASHP + solar + battery on a 1980s Witham detached, BUS-funded
Replaced an 18-year-old gas combi with a 9kW ASHP, added 5kW solar PV and a 10kWh battery. EPC C → A, £1,640/yr saved, BUS covered £7,500.
- +18 points
- £1,640/yr saved
Where we install
Solar PV across the United Kingdom.
We install solar PV with our own crews across the United Kingdom. Each local team knows the housing stock, the grant routes, and the council-specific flex schemes that apply in their patch.
Often paired with…
Ready to start?
Free 45-minute home energy survey. Written plan within 48 hours. Zero pressure.
The plan is yours to keep. Take it to two other installers if you like.
25-year product warranty. 5-year workmanship guarantee. Both insurer-backed. If we vanished tomorrow, your cover still pays out.