by Karl Dyson | Aug 27, 2026 | DIY Solar News
If your house draws 200W continuously just to exist — fridge, router, standby devices, a few chargers — 800W of solar is paying for all of it for free during every sunny hour of the day. That is the actual story of plug-in solar. Not “can it run my...
by Karl Dyson | Aug 27, 2026 | DIY Solar News
Today is day one of the UK plug-in solar market. SI 2026/848 came into force this morning and for the first time you can legally buy a certified kit, plug it into a standard socket, and generate electricity from it. The market is genuinely new and the retail landscape...
by Karl Dyson | Aug 27, 2026 | DIY Solar News
I have been building this site for just under a year, and the whole point of it was to be ready for today. The moment plug-in solar became a real, legal, properly defined product category in the UK rather than a grey area people navigated around. SI 2026/848 comes...
by Karl Dyson | Aug 27, 2026 | DIY Solar News
If you ask why plug-in solar in the UK is capped at 800W, most answers say it is for safety. That is true, but the specific number comes from concrete electrical engineering. Here is what is actually behind it. The ring circuit problem UK domestic wiring uses ring...
by Karl Dyson | Aug 25, 2026 | DIY Solar News
The people with the most to gain from plug-in solar are often renters and flat owners. They cannot access rooftop solar, they pay full grid rates, and a south-facing balcony is exactly the kind of space a plug-in system is designed for. The consent question is the...
by Karl Dyson | Aug 24, 2026 | DIY Solar News
This is one of the most common questions we get, and the answer has become more nuanced since 27 August 2026. The short version: for a certified socket-connection system, the legal position is shifting in renters’ favour — but it is not yet as clear-cut as it is...
