Solar Panels Fareham: Installers for PO14 to PO17

Fareham Borough Council's website is one of the first results when you search for solar panels in Fareham, and it points residents to four routes. Solar Together is a group-buying scheme for solar panels and battery storage; you can register free and without obligation by giving details of your roof. LEAP is a free home energy advice service. Go Renewable is an online service to help you find the right renewable technology. Warmer Homes offers funded improvements for lower-income households in homes that are not very energy efficient, and the council lists solar panels among its measures alongside insulation and air source heat pumps. Eligibility is set by the programme, so check with the council before you assume you do or don't qualify. We explain how the routes fit together in Solar Together, Warmer Homes or a local quote.

A council-promoted scheme and a local quote are not rivals, and it is sensible to get both. Compare them on the same terms: the panel model and count, the inverter and battery capacity, who surveys the roof and when, who submits the SSEN application, and who you call if something goes wrong in year five. Our starting prices are published so you can do exactly that: solar only from £4,995, solar with a Fox ESS battery from £6,995, AIKO panels with a 9kWh Sigenergy battery from £10,800, and solar with a Tesla Powerwall 3 from £12,920. All are subject to survey.

Fareham's housing gives us a wide range of roofs. Locks Heath, Park Gate and Warsash have larger, higher-value detached homes that often suit a bigger array with storage, while elsewhere in the borough there are more inter-war and post-war semis and modern estates with simpler pitched roofs. Fareham Borough has 13 conservation areas, including Fareham High Street, Wallington, Warsash and Titchfield. In a conservation area without an Article 4 direction, panels on the roof slope of a house keep their permitted development rights under the rules as amended on 27 August 2026; the restriction applies to walls, balconies and roof enclosures fronting a highway. Titchfield is the exception to know about. Its Article 4 direction, in force since 18 September 2017, means the properties it specifies need planning permission for solar panels visible from a highway or open space, so we check your address against the council's list before designing. Listed buildings always need consent checked first.

Fareham is 10 miles from our Portsmouth base and on SSEN's network. A 4kW south-facing array here produces roughly 3,900 to 4,200 kWh a year. A battery or larger system needs G99 approval from SSEN before we install it, and we submit that application as part of the job.

Fareham is the closest town on our patch - about five and a half miles from our Portsmouth base - which changes the practical side of a job here more than the technical one. Survey, installation and any return visit are a short drive rather than a planned trip, and that is the honest reason local installers are easier to get hold of in year six than a national fitter who subcontracted the work.

On output, PVGIS 5.3 - the European Commission's model built on satellite data from 2005 to 2023 - puts a 4kW unshaded, south-facing array in Fareham at about 4,452 kWh a year. East-facing it models at about 3,486 kWh and west-facing at 3,495 kWh, so a split east-west roof here loses less than people expect. The year is lopsided: roughly 545 kWh in June against 152 kWh in December, which is the real argument for a battery rather than more panels.

The planning point specific to Fareham is Titchfield, and it catches people out. Across most of the borough, panels on the roof slope of a house keep permitted development under the rules as amended on 27 August 2026. Titchfield is different: Fareham Borough Council's Article 4 direction there covers solar panels, which removes that right and means a planning application even for a roof-slope installation. An Article 4 direction is exactly the thing that turns “no permission needed” into “application required”, so check the council's Article 4 list against your address before anyone quotes you - we do it as part of the survey.

Fareham is on SSEN's network, not UK Power Networks, which also fixes your export region: on 25 September 2026 Octopus Flux paid 29.00p per kWh here for exports between 4pm and 7pm, about 10.08p through the day and 4.74p between 2am and 5am, while Outgoing Octopus pays a flat 12p at any hour. A solar-only system up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to SSEN under G98 after commissioning; a battery or a larger array needs G99 approval first, and we file it. HM Land Registry put the Fareham average at £333,599 in July 2026, with detached homes at £556,568 and flats at £159,540 - a borough of family semis and detached housing where 10 to 14 panels is the normal conversation.