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Solar panels for homes in Telford

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Telford has quietly become one of the most solar-ready towns in the West Midlands. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero counted 5,670 solar installations in Telford and Wrekin at the end of 2025, roughly 7.4% of the borough's 76,500 households and more than double the 2020 figure. For comparison, Birmingham is at about 3.5% and the Black Country boroughs between 3.4% and 4.2%. If you are weighing up panels on a Telford house, you are later to it than many of your neighbours, not earlier.

The reason is the housing. Telford was built out as a new town from the late 1960s, and the Census shows the result: 31.2% of homes are detached and 38.0% semi-detached, with only 8.5% in flats, among the most house-heavy mixes in our area. Those estates have simple pitched roofs, generous plots and garages, which is exactly the combination that makes a 4 to 6 kWp array with a battery straightforward to design and quick to install.

We are 22 miles away in Oldbury, a 35 minute run up the M54, and Telford is regular work for our engineers. This page gives you the local numbers: what a Telford roof should generate, how the borough's own net-zero programme is going, which network your connection goes through, and what to expect from a Green Tech Hub installation.

Telford roofs, and where the battery goes

Telford and Wrekin's 76,509 households break down as 31.2% detached, 38.0% semi-detached, 20.3% terraced and 8.5% in purpose-built flats. Home ownership is 59.9%, with private renting up from 15.0% to 21.2% between the 2011 and 2021 censuses, so a growing share of the housing is landlord-owned, which matters for who commissions the work and how it is funded.

On the ground that means estates like those around Priorslee, Lawley, Shawbirch and Dawley with 1970s to 2000s detached and semi-detached homes, unobstructed roofs and room in a garage for the battery and inverter. The older cores of Wellington, Oakengates, Dawley and Ironbridge are different, with Victorian terraces and, in Ironbridge Gorge, a World Heritage Site and conservation area where we check the permitted development position for each address first. Roof slopes in a conservation area are still permitted development; a wall fronting the street is not.

What the council is doing in Telford

Telford and Wrekin Council declared a climate emergency in July 2019 and committed to net zero for its own emissions by 2030. By early 2026 it reported a 63% reduction against its 2018 to 2019 baseline, eight percent ahead of its trajectory, with energy efficiency work on buildings and streetlighting cutting consumption by 28% and the council-owned Wheat Leasows solar farm generating 3,144 MWh in 2024 to 2025, enough to power roughly a thousand homes for a year.

The council's programme is about its own estate rather than household grants, so the support available to a Telford homeowner is the national package: 0% VAT on installing solar panels and batteries until 31 March 2027, export payments through the Smart Export Guarantee, and permitted development rights that cover almost every pitched-roof array. What the council's record does show is that the borough treats solar as mainstream, which is consistent with the installation figures.

Local facts, sourced

Telford in numbers

Every figure below comes from a named public source: the Census, DESNZ, the European Commission's PVGIS model, HM Land Registry, the network operator lookup and the councils themselves.

  • Telford and Wrekin had 5,670 solar PV installations at the end of 2025, up 103% from 2,799 in 2020, equivalent to about 7.4% of the borough's 76,500 households, the highest share of any large town in our catchment.

    Source: DESNZ, Renewable electricity by local authority 2014 to 2025 (published 29 September 2026), Solar PV sites and estimated households

  • Installed solar capacity in Telford and Wrekin reached 81.27 MW in 2025, which includes the council's Wheat Leasows solar farm as well as rooftop systems.

    Source: DESNZ, Renewable electricity by local authority 2014 to 2025, Solar PV capacity (MW)

  • The borough's 76,509 households are 31.2% detached, 38.0% semi-detached, 20.3% terraced and 8.5% in purpose-built flats (Census 2021).

    Source: ONS Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type, via nomis (dataset NM_2062_1)

  • Telford and Wrekin's population rose 11.3% between 2011 and 2021, from just over 166,600 to around 185,500; home ownership was 59.9% in 2021 and private renting rose from 15.0% to 21.2%.

    Source: ONS, Census 2021: How life has changed in Telford and Wrekin (ons.gov.uk)

  • Telford and Wrekin Council declared a climate emergency in July 2019 with a net-zero target of 2030 for its own emissions, and reported in January 2026 a 63% reduction since 2018 to 2019, eight percent ahead of target.

    Source: Telford and Wrekin Council newsroom (newsroom.telford.gov.uk) and Shropshire Live, 8 January 2026

  • The council-owned Wheat Leasows solar farm generated 3,144 MWh in 2024 to 2025, enough to power about a thousand homes for a year.

    Source: Telford and Wrekin Council, Becoming Carbon Neutral update report (democracy.telford.gov.uk)

  • A 4 kWp south-facing array at 35 degrees in Telford is modelled at 3,886 kWh a year, a long-term average for an unshaded roof.

    Source: European Commission JRC, PVGIS 5.3 (SARAH3), 4 kWp, south, 35 degrees, 14% system loss

  • Real Telford postcodes across TF2, TF3 and TF4 return National Grid Electricity Distribution's West Midlands network, the same operator as the Black Country.

    Source: Octopus Energy grid-supply-point API (api.octopus.energy/v1/industry/grid-supply-points), group _E

  • The average house price in Telford and Wrekin was £226,893 in July 2026.

    Source: HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index, July 2026 (landregistry.data.gov.uk)

NETWORK OPERATOR

National Grid Electricity Distribution (West Midlands)

Confirmed by real-postcode lookups across TF2, TF3 and TF4, three postcodes per outcode.

MODELLED YIELD

3,886 kWh a year for 4 kWp, south-facing at 35 degrees, in Telford.

PVGIS 5.3 long-term average for an unshaded roof; we model your actual roof.

FROM OUR OFFICE

21.7 miles from Broadwell Road, Oldbury (B69 4BY).

Great-circle distance from our office to the town centre; the engineer who surveys is the one who installs.

Data last reviewed: October 2026

For your home

Solar, batteries and chargers for Telford homes

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The next step

Send us your Telford postcode and a photo of the roof. We will model what it would generate, size a battery to your evening use and give you a fixed price, with no sales visit.

We install across Birmingham, the Black Country, Worcestershire and Staffordshire from our base in Oldbury, and regularly travel 30 to 40 miles, Telford, Coventry, Shrewsbury and Stafford included. If you are on the edge of that, just ask.

Telford home solar questions

How much electricity will solar panels generate on a Telford roof?

The European Commission's PVGIS model puts a 4 kWp south-facing array at 35 degrees in Telford at about 3,886 kWh a year, a long-term average for an unshaded roof. East or west slopes produce roughly 15 to 20 percent less over the year, and a typical Telford house uses 2,700 to 4,000 kWh, so a well-sized system with a battery can cover a large share of it. We model your actual roof and, if you have a smart meter, your half-hourly usage, rather than quoting the average.

Do I need planning permission in Telford?

For a pitched-roof installation on a house, no, provided the panels project no more than 0.2 metres from the roof and sit no higher than the highest part of the roof excluding chimneys. In the Ironbridge Gorge conservation area and World Heritage Site, roof slopes are still permitted development but panels on a wall fronting a highway are not, and listed buildings need consent. We confirm the designation for your address before we design anything.

Which electricity network is Telford on, and will I need a G99?

Telford is on National Grid Electricity Distribution's West Midlands network. A system up to 3.68 kW per phase is G98 and is notified after the install; most solar-plus-battery systems with a 5 or 6 kW hybrid inverter need a G99 application first, which we submit for you.

Are you based in Telford?

No, and we would rather say so than pretend. We are in Oldbury, 22 miles away, and Telford is regular work for our engineers. The person who surveys your house designs the system and installs it, and comes back if anything needs attention afterwards.

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