News
What's new at Solarable.
Product launches and new roof-check features — the tools we're building to put your roof's solar data back in your hands, so you come prepared for any quote.
96% of the sun is about to vanish. Britain's solar roofs will shrug.
On 12 August 2026 the deepest eclipse since 1999 crosses the UK. We computed what it actually costs rooftop solar, roof by roof. The answer is almost nothing, and the roofs that do lose something are the ones the industry spent twenty years writing off.
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- Data 3 min read
Parliament is costing a £3bn restoration. We measured its roof in about a second.
The Palace of Westminster is heading into a seven-year, £3bn phase one of restoration. We pointed our rooftop solar read at it from above: roughly 17,500 sq m of roof, an estimated 2.4 MW, and around 765 homes' worth of electricity a year.
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- Data 3 min read
While you watch the World Cup, we measured every famous British ground from above
No UK stadium is hosting a World Cup match this summer. Fine. We pointed our rooftop solar read at 17 famous British grounds instead and ranked them — and the winner isn't Wembley. It isn't even in England.
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- Launch 4 min read
Solarable is live — your roof's solar numbers, before you speak to anyone
Solarable is now live for UK homeowners. Check your roof from a postcode, get an honest Solarable Report, and walk into installer quotes already knowing your direction, rough system size, and payback range.
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We show you your actual roof — not a stock photo of someone else's
Solarable shows your real roof from above, shaded by how much sun each slope gets across the year. Aerial imagery and per-slope solar data, straight on your report — most solar sites still hand you a stock photo and a phone number.
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A savings number you can actually argue with
Solarable's savings calculator shows every assumption behind the range — energy price, export rate, how much you use by day — and lets you move them. No single magic figure, no hidden maths. Just numbers you can check a quote against.
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- Trust 2 min read
We check every installer's MCS certificate — by hand
Every installer listed on Solarable has had their MCS certificate number verified by us before they go live. Plenty of directories will list any company that pays. We don't. Here's how the gate works, and why it matters.
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- Insight 2 min read
No, your roof doesn't have to face south
The "south or nothing" rule is the most expensive myth in UK solar. East and west roofs perform better than most people think — and Solarable's roof check scores them fairly instead of writing them off.
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Flat roof? Good. We've got you.
Flat roofs get written off far too often. Solarable's roof check handles them properly — flat roofs are some of the most flexible there are for solar, and we treat them that way.
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- Trust 1 min read
We don't sell your details. That's the whole point.
The usual solar-lead playbook takes your phone number and sells it to five companies who then hound you for a fortnight. Solarable doesn't. No accounts, no lead resale, no managed routing — you choose who to contact, on your terms.
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Tools
Run the numbers for your home.
Check your roof
Address-based roof check. Postcode in, Solarable Report out.
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Solar savings calculator
Annual benefit and payback in honest UK ranges.
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Browse listed installers
Solar installers covering UK postcodes.
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Can I get solar panels?
Top-of-funnel suitability check for UK homes.
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