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Home battery installation in Leeds
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Leeds has stone and brick terraces around Headingley, Kirkstall and Chapel Allerton, plus larger semis in Roundhay, Moortown and the outer estates. Loft conversions are common and they compete with a battery for the same cupboard space.
The houses, not the postcode average
Stone terraces can have small or shaded roof planes. Detached and semi-detached houses on the outskirts more often carry a south or east-west array big enough to fill a 10 kWh battery on a bright day.
Solid stone walls and finished loft rooms push the battery downstairs. A garage or a cool utility is a better thermal home for LFP cells than a hot roof void.
Terraced streets with limited rear access can make a front-door carry the real route, which belongs in the quote.
What gets fitted here
Surveyors in Leeds often see an existing 3 to 4 kWp system with a string inverter that has no battery port, so the choice is an AC-coupled pack or an inverter swap.
Yorkshire winter days will not refill a large battery from the roof. A cheap overnight window has to be part of the design, or the pack is oversized.
Northern Powergrid, yield and a 4 kWp example
A 4 kWp array at 890 kWh per installed kilowatt is about 3,560 kWh a year before shade. That is the local ceiling on solar charging, not a promise the battery will cycle fully in January.
In Leeds, on Northern Powergrid, 3.6 kW is in the band where G98 connect-and-notify is often enough. Export can still be capped. Agree that before the inverter is ordered. The sketch uses 5 kWh and 4 kWp, which is enough to tell two quotes apart if they assumed something else.
Take a 5 kWh pack, cycled about 340 times, at 90% round trip. Charge at 7.0p, and value what comes back at 30.8p. Export given up is priced at 12.0p. About 971 kWh a year of the charge is treated as spare solar from 4 kWp that might otherwise have been exported. Delivered energy is about 1530 kWh. After charging cost and lost export, the sketch saves about £327 a year. Set that against £5,437 fitted, which is a September 2026 illustration at the temporary 0% residential rate, not a quote. That is a simple payback of about 16.6 years, which is past a typical 10-year warranty. Nudge the night rate up by 4p and see if you still like it.
What I would not sign in Leeds
Where the job is a qualifying install in a home, the 0% rate runs to 31 March 2027 and is due to become 5% after that. This sketch prices the work at £5,437 on that basis. It does not apply to a shop, and it does not apply to a battery you buy and fit yourself.
I would not sign off a 5 kWh install from a video call. Someone has to open the consumer unit.
Headingley stone and a Roundhay garage do not want the same cupboard, even when the battery badge matches.
Questions worth asking out loud
Is the price on this page a quote?
No. £5,437 is a September 2026 illustration for a 5 kWh example at the temporary 0% residential rate. Your survey replaces it.
Will it stay on in a power cut?
Only if a gateway or essential-load board was designed and paid for. A standard grid-tied battery turns off with the grid. On this 5 kWh sketch the inverter is 3.6 kW, and backup is still a separate line.
What paperwork should I keep?
Keep the MCS certificate where the job is certified, the electrical certificate, the DNO record, the schematic, the warranty registration and a photo of the schedule. For an illustrated £5,437 job, that folder is part of what you bought.
What if the cheap rate is not 7p?
Then the sketch changes. This page used 7.0p as a charge rate and 30.8p as the rate avoided. A smaller gap means a worse payback. Read the live tariff.