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Free quote for solar in Manchester
Solar panel installation in Manchester
Generate your own electricity at your Greater Manchester home and see what buying less from your supplier could be worth. REST offers a free appointment to compare a proposed system with your current energy costs.
Buy less electricity from your supplier. Get your personal Manchester savings estimate below.
- Estimated yearly saving from your bill
- Personalised quote, free of charge
- Solar, storage and finance explained clearly
Step 1 of 3
What is your monthly electricity bill?
Roughly is fine. It tells us how much solar could do for your home.
Why Mancunians ask REST
A clear price and a believable saving.
Rain is not the problem people think it is. What matters is your roof, your bill and how you use power.
Equipment you can look up
Eurener NEXA modules, backed by the maker for 30 years on the product and 30 on performance, plus batteries from Duracell, Fox ESS, Tesla and Growatt.
Safeguards on your money
HIES insures your deposit, installers work to MCS standards, and every savings estimate is checked and cleared by EPVS before an install.
Greater Manchester customers
Generating and storing power in Greater Manchester
Two Greater Manchester homes with very different electricity use, and what solar is estimated to do for each.
Case study
Six years to pay back: a Greater Manchester home putting a 15 kWh battery to work
A £2,407 electricity bill and 9,630 kWh of demand: Mahmed's Greater Manchester home gave a solar system plenty to bite into.
The 16 panels can cover much of the daytime and a 15 kWh battery can carry on into the evening. More than half of the roof's yield goes to the house itself, so most of the projected benefit comes from cutting what the house buys, not from selling power.
After around six years, the projection says the system has paid back, among the quickest on these pages. From there it keeps working on the same large bill, and the 30-year view beneath shows how far the long run could go.
- Estimated yearly electricity spend
- £2,407
- System
- 8 kWp + 15 kWh battery
- Est. first-year benefit
- £1,996
- Est. payback
- 6 years
Projected net savings over 30 years*£135,593
*Assumes electricity prices rise 7.04% a year. A projection, not a guarantee.
Case study
22 panels on a Greater Manchester home: a big roof set up to sell as well as save
22 panels is a serious roof, and Mohammed's Greater Manchester home uses 4,500 kWh a year, which is not a serious amount of electricity. REST designed the two to work together.
Only a fifth or so is used in the house at the moment it is made. What is left tops up two batteries or heads to the grid, and export income leads the projected benefit at around half of the total.
That income is why the projected benefit is bigger than the £1,404 bill, which will still arrive from the supplier. Payback is projected at around eight years, and the figure underneath shows the long game over 30 years.
- Estimated yearly electricity spend
- £1,404
- System
- 11 kWp + 10 kWh battery
- Est. first-year benefit
- £1,795
- Est. payback
- 8 years
Projected net savings over 30 years*£90,255
*Assumes electricity prices rise 7.04% a year. A projection, not a guarantee.
Recent REST installs in Manchester
More installs across Greater Manchester.
Recent Manchester-area installs, generation and estimated saving.
Connor O
Bury · July 2026
£1,374Estimated first-year benefit
Maureen M
Greater Manchester · December 2025
£1,331Estimated first-year benefit
Sriskantharajah V
Warrington · July 2025
£1,282Estimated first-year benefit
All savings, spend and generation figures are estimates, not measured results or a guarantee, and they depend on the roof, usage, tariff and future energy prices. These are selected examples, not typical results.
What it means at home
A longer view of your household electricity costs
Solar's benefit can run through many years of generation. Ask for the full forecast and you can judge it against more than one year's estimate.
In the daytime
On a dull day the panels still generate something, so even a grey Greater Manchester morning can take a little off what the house draws.
In the evening
In the evening a battery can run the cooker, the lights and the television from power collected earlier in the day.
Once it has paid for itself
When the system has paid for itself, your energy bills are shaped less by the supplier's unit price and more by what your own roof can supply.
Behind the estimate
Why a REST quote is worth trusting.
You can check each of these independently, which is the point.
Panels with long manufacturer cover
Eurener NEXA modules carry 30 years of manufacturer cover on the build and on the output. REST helps if you need to claim.
A choice of storage
Duracell, Fox ESS, Tesla or Growatt, sized around your evening use, so the battery matches what you use.
Deposit protection through HIES
Insurance-backed cover for your deposit, within the scheme's rules, and help with disputes if one arises.
Honest estimates
The EPVS calculation produces these figures and EPVS approves them before installation. Estimates are labelled as such and come with the assumptions behind them.
15,927
solar installations in the North West so far this year, per the first regional data the government has published. GOV.UK
Solar in Manchester
Local points for Manchester homeowners.
Three things that shape a solar plan in and around Manchester.
Conservation areas, listed homes and flats
Conservation areas are scattered across the city and boroughs such as Trafford and Stockport, and listed buildings need their own consent. Flats and maisonettes follow different rules from houses, so the freeholder matters. Houses outside those cases often need no planning application.
Electricity North West
Homes across Greater Manchester connect through Electricity North West. REST handles the G98 or G99 application, but how quickly it proceeds is down to the network operator, and REST cannot guarantee a timescale.
Red-brick terraces and interwar semis
Victorian terraces and 1930s semis each offer a different roof pitch and direction, and shade often comes from neighbouring gables and chimneys. The surveyor maps it on your own roof.
Useful official pages: Planning Portal: solar panels and planning permission · Find your network operator · GOV.UK regional solar figures
What happens next
Three steps to your solar savings estimate
- 01
Say what you pay
Choose your monthly bill range from four options.
- 02
Give your postcode
The page returns an estimated yearly saving for a Manchester-area home.
- 03
Get your personal estimate
Send your details across, and REST replies with your own Manchester solar savings estimate.
Common questions
Quick answers before you enquire
No. The quote is free and you can walk away at any point.
Take your time with a proposal for Manchester. It shows:
- The assumptions behind each estimate
- Finance options, subject to status
- Panel warranty details
- How your deposit is protected through HIES
- Your panel layout
- Your price, confirmed after the free survey
REST has finance options, some with no upfront cost. Finance is subject to status and lender approval, and REST UK acts as a credit broker, not a lender.
A surveyor checks the roof, the shade and your electrics so the final price is accurate. The visit is free and carries no obligation.
It is cautious by design and based on a typical home with your bill. The quote sharpens it with details of your own roof and consumption, but it stays an estimate.
Yes. Past the payback point, the power your panels make is power you are not buying, and a battery can stretch that into the evening. REST's forecast shows the point where the system has paid for itself.
Usually not for a house roof. Listed buildings, conservation areas and flats are where most people run into rules, so ask your council about your address.
No. Panels still generate in daylight, not only in direct sun, and roof direction, pitch and shade matter more than the forecast. Your survey checks all three.
Yes, through a Smart Export Guarantee tariff you arrange with your supplier. Rates vary between suppliers.
Greater Manchester coverage
Solar panel assessments across Greater Manchester.
REST reviews residential projects throughout the area, subject to survey requirements, access and installation availability.
Check your propertyManchester city
Didsbury, Chorlton, Withington, Levenshulme, Wythenshawe, Ancoats and surrounding districts.
South Manchester
Stockport, Cheadle, Altrincham, Sale and Trafford.
North and east
Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Tameside and the surrounding communities.
West Manchester
Salford, Eccles, Worsley, Bolton, Wigan and, further west, Liverpool.
Free quote
Work out what solar could do for your Manchester home
Send your details across and REST replies with your own Manchester savings estimate, with no obligation to go further.
- Estimate first, contact details second
- Quote with the savings broken down
- Free, with no obligation
Step 1 of 3
What is your monthly electricity bill?
Roughly is fine. It tells us how much solar could do for your home.
Notes on the figures
Projected net savings over 30 years: Mahmed P, Greater Manchester. This is the projection in the customer's own proposal, after the cost of the system and any finance repayments. It assumes electricity prices rise 7.04% a year, panel output falls 1% in the first year and about 0.38% a year after that, battery capacity falls 2.5% a year, and the battery (£1,500) and inverter (£1,000) are replaced every 10 years.
Projected net savings over 30 years: Mohammed M, Greater Manchester. This is the projection in the customer's own proposal, after the cost of the system and any finance repayments. It assumes electricity prices rise 7.04% a year, panel output falls 1% in the first year and about 0.38% a year after that, battery capacity falls 2.5% a year, and the battery (£1,000) and inverter (£750) are replaced every 10 years.
If electricity prices rise more slowly than assumed, the savings will be lower. Projections are not measured results or a guarantee, and they depend on the roof, usage, tariff and future energy prices. These are selected examples, not typical results.