How we work
The site we wished existed when we got our own quotes.
Home Energy Compare exists because pricing a solar panel, a battery or a heat pump in the UK shouldn't require handing your phone number to five strangers. Numbers first. Names later, if ever.
Three promises
01
Tools before forms
Every calculator gives full results with no email gate, no phone number, no "unlock your estimate". If we ever gate a result, hold us to this page.
02
Prices you can date-stamp
Every figure carries a "checked" date. We re-check guide prices monthly against real installer quotes and published rates, and correct anything that's drifted.
03
Your details move once
Only when you ask for quotes, only to the (max three) installers quoting, never to a marketing list. No installer ever pays to see your details without your say-so.
How we make money
When you choose to request quotes, the installers we introduce pay us a fixed referral fee — the same fee whoever they are, whatever they quote. That's the business.
Because the fee is fixed, there is no incentive to rank one battery above another, inflate a price range, or push you towards quotes before you're ready. Some guides also carry clearly-marked affiliate links; they never affect what we recommend.
If you never ask for quotes, we earn nothing from your visit — and that's fine. Most visitors don't, and the calculators stay free anyway.
How prices get checked
On the first working day of each month we collect fresh installed prices: quotes shared by readers, published installer price lists, and the rates suppliers publish for tariffs and export payments. Guide figures are the middle of that spread, not the cheapest outlier.
When something moves — a VAT rule, a grant closing, a price jump — the guide is updated and the "checked" date rolls forward. If a date on this site looks stale, it is; tell us and we'll fix it.
What we are not
Spotted a stale price? Tell us.
Corrections, quote data you're willing to share, or installers who behaved badly — it all makes the guides better.