Plug-in solar panels in Leeds
Three things change depending on where you live: who you notify, how much the panel actually makes, and who has to say yes first. Here are all three for Leeds.
In Leeds you notify Northern Powergrid
Northern Powergrid · Yorkshire licence area
Your network operator is fixed by your postcode. You cannot choose it and switching electricity supplier does not change it. Great Britain is divided into fourteen licence areas, and Leeds falls in the Yorkshire licence area.
Northern Powergrid runs two licence areas. Leeds is in Yorkshire, not the Northeast area that covers Tyneside.
G98 notification is not optional and it is not the same thing as telling your supplier. It is a short form, it is free, and the QR code on your kit links straight to the right one. Do it before you connect, not after.
What 800W realistically makes in Yorkshire
These are irradiance model figures for 800W of panel, not measurements from a roof down the road. Treat them as a ceiling you will fall short of rather than a target.
740 kWh
Per year, south facing, angled properly on a garden frame or flat roof with nothing shading it.
460 kWh
Per year, mounted flat against a south-facing balcony railing. The convenience costs you output.
25–60%
The share you use as it is generated. The rest goes to the grid for nothing. Being home in the day is worth more than a bigger kit.
Leeds sits in a valley and the difference between a south-facing balcony in Headingley and a north-facing one in the same building is larger than the map suggests. Orientation is worth more here than kit size.
Two panels on one 800VA inverter. The sweet spot for a typical home's background load, and the largest output the rules allow.
Housing stock in Leeds
Leeds has the back-to-back terrace stock that exists almost nowhere else in England, concentrated in Harehills, Beeston and Holbeck. Many have no private outdoor space at all, which rules out a panel entirely. Check what you actually own before you spend anything.
The riverside and Holbeck Urban Village apartment blocks are the balcony market, and several are in the Leeds Waterfront conservation area. Freeholder consent is the practical hurdle rather than planning.
Permission questions locally go to Leeds City Council, though for a freestanding panel in a private rear garden you are usually dealing with a lease or a landlord rather than a planning officer.
The national rules apply here as everywhere
800VA cap, one device per household, certified complete kits only, no batteries. Full explainer →
Straight answers
Which DNO do I notify in Leeds?
Northern Powergrid, in its Yorkshire licence area. G98 notification is mandatory before you connect a plug-in solar kit, and it goes to your network operator, not your electricity supplier.
How much electricity will a plug-in solar kit make in Leeds?
An 800W array in Leeds models at roughly 740 kWh a year at optimal tilt, or around 460 kWh flat against a vertical balcony rail. You only save money on the share you use as it is generated.
I live in a back-to-back with no garden. What are my options?
Realistically none for a plug-in kit. The specification needs the panel mounted safely on space you control, and a shared street frontage does not qualify. This is the one common Leeds housing type where the honest answer is that this product is not for you.
Kits that ship to Leeds
Every kit is certified as a complete product, ships free, and comes with the G98 notification link for Northern Powergrid. Use Northern Powergrid here and it fills in the local operator.
Kits available from 27 August 2026
That is the date SI 2026/848 comes into force and plug-in solar becomes legal to self-install in Great Britain. Certified kits are listed here as soon as they are available.
See all kitsShips to England, Wales and Scotland. Northern Ireland sits outside SI 2026/848, so we cannot supply plug-in kits to NI addresses.