If you’re lucky enough to live among Norfolk’s national parks and chalk rivers and you’re looking to cut your electricity bills, solar panels could be the best way forward.

From West Walton to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk receives more sunlight than most areas of the UK, which gives residents with solar panels a significant advantage.

In this guide, we’ll explain how much solar panels cost in Norfolk, how the county’s sunny weather affects savings, and which grants can help you cut the upfront cost.

At Sunsave, we install across the whole of Norfolk – so if you’re wondering how much you could save with a solar & battery system, enter a few details below and we’ll provide an estimate.

What are the best installers in Norfolk?

1. Sunsave

At Sunsave, our mission is to make solar accessible to all UK households, which is why we offer the UK’s first solar subscription service.

Sunsave Plus enables you to start saving on your energy bills immediately, with no upfront cost.

You’ll get the best-in-class kit installed on your roof, access to the best export tariffs, and the 20-year Sunsave Guarantee, which includes 24/7 monitoring, maintenance, a free battery upgrade and inverter replacement if necessary, and downtime cover – all for a fixed monthly fee.

Your system will also be insured by Aviva against damage, fire, and theft.

Our customers clearly appreciate our work, as they’ve left us around 300 five-star ratings on Trustpilot, along with reviews praising our professional, responsive, helpful approach.

2. Solar Panel Funding

This Norwich-based company was created in 2018, and has since attracted thousands of rave reviews on Trustpilot.

Reviewers have been particularly enamoured with the company’s polite, friendly, helpful approach to selling, which director David Applegate explained is at the heart of his firm’s outlook.

He said: “For a lot of people, the idea of having someone come to their property can be quite unnerving, and that's why we're really proud of the way we do things, in that we don't send a salesperson to your home; we do it on Zoom.”

The installer counts Olympic gold-medal winning athlete Sally Gunnell among its customers, and in an interview with Solar Panel Funding’s YouTube channel, she was also full of praise.

“You just reassured us, because it is quite a scary thing - you're not quite sure what's involved, whether the figures really add up, will we save money in the long run, does it affect the cost of the house if we do sell eventually,” she explained.

“You guys very clearly answered all of our questions.”

3. Mr Solar

Mr Solar – or to use his real name, Ian Gilfedder – is a former car salesman who started this company in 2022.

From a base in Gorleston, he’s built a successful small business that’s won over loads of customers in the surrounding areas.

He said: “Solar energy has always been an interest for me, since installing my first system back in 2011, when a solar PV system cost £20,000.

“Since then, the industry has changed for the better.”

Gilfedder’s company uses solar panels from manufacturers including AIKO, Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, and Trina, which all make some of the most efficient solar panels around.

How much do solar panels cost in Norfolk?

A 4.5kWp solar & battery system costs about £10,244 to buy and install in Norfolk.

This includes 10 solar panels with a 450-watt peak power rating, and a 5kWh battery.

We've added the cost of getting a 5kWh battery because it can hugely boost your returns.

A battery lets you use more solar-generated electricity at home – known as self-consumption – which allows you to buy less electricity from the grid.

You can also sign up for the best export tariffs and time-of-use import tariffs, and join grid flexibility services like virtual power plants.

About 94% of new solar panel installations in the UK include a battery, according to data from Flexi-Orb and the EPVS.

Multiple factors could lead to you paying a different amount for a solar panel system, like its size, the installation’s complexity, and the installer you choose.

To read about everything else you need to know, check out our guide to solar panel costs.

At Sunsave, we install across Norfolk – so if you’re wondering how much you could save with a solar & battery system, enter a few details below and we’ll provide an estimate.

Are there any grants for solar panels in Norfolk?

There are solar panel grants available in Norfolk, mainly thanks to national government schemes, but they usually come with strict eligibility criteria designed to only serve the most deprived households.

If you can't gain access to any of these initiatives and you're put off by the price of switching to solar, consider Sunsave Plus, which is available at no upfront cost.

For fixed monthly payments over 20 years, you’ll receive the best-in-class kit, full monitoring and maintenance support, and a system that can save you money from day one.

To see which schemes you might be eligible for, use our grant eligibility checker.

North Norfolk District Council discount

North Norfolk’s local authority has partnered with MakeMyHouseGreen to provide a £500 discount for households that want to go solar.

All you need to do is visit the solar installer through the page provided by the district council.

Then if you get your system fitted by MakeMyHouseGreen, your price will be cut by £500.

After declaring a climate emergency in 2019 and setting a target of reaching net zero by 2030, the council has made another small step towards a more eco-friendly region.

Solar Together Norfolk

Solar Together is a programme that helps residents in an area get a discount on their solar installations through collective buying.

It's not a government grant; it's a scheme controlled by a private, for-profit Dutch company, in collaboration with local authorities.

When the initiative ran in Norfolk and Suffolk from November 2023 to April 2024, 128 households got solar panel systems.

You can register for Solar Together if you’re a homeowner, small or medium-sized business owner, or tenant – as long as you have your landlord's permission.

It only runs for a limited period in each county, but homes in Norfolk have had the chance to sign up in 2022, 2023, and 2025, so it’s just a matter of time before the scheme returns.

However, there are substantial disadvantages to Solar Together.

Despite the discount, it still comes with a high upfront cost, and since the process is collective, it takes a long time to get to your installation day.

There's also a lack of post-installation support, which means that if something goes wrong with your system or monitoring app, you might have no-one to turn to.

For more information, read our in-depth guide to Solar Together.

National grants

Two grants are available to Norfolk homes – and if you might qualify for either of them, you should look into applying.

Solar panels can reduce your electricity bills by hundreds of pounds per year, shrink your carbon footprint, and increase your property’s value, but the upfront cost is generally high.

Warm Homes: Local Grant

The Warm Homes: Local Grant provides local authorities around England with funding to improve the energy efficiency and heating systems of eligible homes.

It's mainly focused on energy-inefficient households that are deprived, low-income, or receive a means-tested benefit.

The scheme, which started in April 2025 and is set to run until 2028, has given Norfolk’s district councils £11.4 million in funding.

If you qualify, you could access up to £30,000 of this grant money. This includes £15,000 for a low-carbon heating system – such as a heat pump or electric storage heater – and £15,000 for energy performance upgrades.

These upgrades can include a solar & battery system, as well as other measures like insulation, draught-proofing, and double glazing.

Energy Company Obligation (ECO4)

You can access the government’s main scheme for reducing domestic emissions if you live in a low-income or vulnerable household with residents on at least one of a list of benefits.

Unfortunately though, the scheme ends in December 2026.

ECO4 is a way for the government to compel large energy suppliers to make energy-efficient improvements in struggling households, at no cost to the inhabitants.

The scheme can help you to get a free solar panel system, as it has done for more than 65,000 homes – though only if your property is heated with electricity, like 11.2% of households in England.

How many homes in Norfolk have solar panels?

40,442 homes in Norfolk have had solar panels installed with a Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) certificate, as of May 2026.

Across Norfolk's seven districts, that means 10% of the county's 404,341 households have installed solar panels.

This figure is much higher than the national average of 5.7% – as it should be, since Norfolk is sunnier than most of the UK.

For more information on the popularity of solar panels in different parts of the country, read our guide to how many homes have solar panels in the UK.

Is Norfolk sunny enough for solar panels?

Norfolk gets more sunlight than most parts of the UK.

Solar panels just need daylight to work, not direct sunlight, but they do produce more electricity under direct sunlight – which is why it’s great news that Norfolk is relatively sunny.

It varies across the county, though. Fakenham in North Norfolk receives 1,411 kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) per year on average, which is around 17% more than the UK average.

In the west, King’s Lynn gets 1,338kWh/m² – or 11% higher than the national average – while Loddon in South Norfolk enjoys 1,434kWh/m², which beats the UK average by a massive 19%.

All these figures are based on the European Commission's Photovoltaic Geographical Information System, which provides regularly updated solar irradiance data.

The solar industry measures sunlight by tracking the sun’s average intensity in a specific area, which it calls ‘solar irradiance.’

It measures this in kilowatt-hours per square metre – that is, how much energy makes it from the sun, across 93 million miles of space, to a particular square metre on Earth.

There are multiple factors that affect solar panel output, but solar irradiance is among the most important.

As you may expect, the more intense the sunlight that hits your panels, the higher the kWh/m², and the more solar electricity your system produces – which means higher savings for you.

Typical solar panel output in Norfolk

These output figures are all based on a domestic system in Fakenham.

We've used a 4.5kWp system because it'll usually produce at least enough electricity to match the average UK household's electricity consumption, which is 3,400kWh per year.

When your solar panels generate more electricity than you can use or store in your battery, you can sell this excess energy to the grid through one of the best SEG rates.

While this will happen with almost every UK system during summer, installations in Norfolk should be able to enjoy this additional income stream more often.

Please note: you won’t necessarily produce as much solar electricity with your system, as your home will probably be different from this property – but it should give you a good idea of what’s possible in Norfolk.

Is it worth getting solar panels in Norfolk?

It’s definitely worth getting solar panels in Norfolk – and more so than it is in most areas of the UK.

Norfolk benefits from high levels of solar irradiance, especially when compared to the national average, which allows its residents to save hundreds of pounds per year by going solar.

There’s a reason why an impressive 10% of households in the county have decided to go solar – and that percentage will likely rise, as energy bills stay high and heat pumps and electric vehicles become fixtures across the UK.

If you’d like to buy solar panels but you’re put off by the upfront cost, consider Sunsave Plus, our all-in-one residential solar and battery solution that’s tailored to your home, and delivered as a monthly subscription with no upfront cost.

It also comes with the 20-year Sunsave Guarantee.

At Sunsave, we install across the whole of Norfolk – so if you’re wondering how much you could save with a solar & battery system, enter a few details below and we’ll provide an estimate.

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