How This Site Works
Solar Panels for Sheds is an independent UK guide to powering sheds, garden offices and other outbuildings. This page explains who runs it, what happens to an enquiry, and how we source the figures you read here.
Who runs this site
The site is operated by SEO Dons Ltd, a UK company (Company No. 16766013, 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ). We are a publisher, not a retailer or an installer: we do not sell kits, batteries or panels, we do not install anything, and we are not paid by any brand mentioned on the site.
What happens when you send an enquiry
Every form on the site goes to this site's own inbox. We read it and we reply by email, usually with a sized spec worked from what you told us: panel wattage, battery capacity, whether you need an inverter, and whether the job is likely to be notifiable electrical work. We do not phone you unless you ask us to, we do not pass your details to an installer, and we do not sell or share them. There is no installer partner behind this site today; if that ever changes, this page will say so before any enquiry is passed on.
The forms ask for your postcode because winter solar output varies a lot across the UK, and the answer for Cornwall is not the answer for the Highlands. The forms ask for your phone number as well as your email; we still reply by email, and only phone you if you ask us to. How we handle your data is set out in our privacy policy.
How the figures are sourced
Rules come from the primary source: planning limits from the permitted development order on legislation.gov.uk, electrical rules from Approved Document P on gov.uk, VAT from HMRC's VAT notices, and grid connection rules from the network operators' G98 and G99 guidance. Solar output figures come from PVGIS, the European Commission's solar model. Energy prices come from Ofgem's price cap, and export rates from the suppliers' published tariffs. Each page that uses these figures says when they were last checked.
Kit and component prices change weekly, so we give them as ranges with the date we read them, and we do not publish reviews, ratings or test results we have not done. If you spot a figure that is out of date, tell us through the form below and we will check it against the source.
What this site will not do
We will not tell you a job is "free", "government-approved" or "certified" unless the source says so, we will not invent customer stories or reviews, and we will not put a phone number on the site to sell you something. Where a job needs a registered electrician, building control or a planning decision, we say so plainly, including on our pages about wiring and Part P and solar panels on shed roofs.
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