Book a 30-minute Solar & Battery Strategy Call with Artisan Electrics. A senior engineer will tell you exactly what system your home needs, what to avoid, and whether it's genuinely worth it — before you commit to anything.
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We built this audience by being genuinely useful — not by producing sales content. Our videos cover real installations, real component testing, and honest system comparisons with nothing held back.
If you've been watching us, you already know we don't cut corners or push products for commercial reasons. That same standard applies to every installation we design.
Free solar quotes are produced in minutes by people whose job is to win the sale. What you receive is a number — not a system design, not an honest assessment, not a plan built around your home.
A 5kWh battery covers roughly two and a half hours of typical evening demand. Most UK homes need 20–40kWh of storage for genuine grid independence. Undersizing is the most common — and most expensive — mistake in UK solar installations.
Many systems marketed as "backup capable" shut down completely when the grid fails. True whole-home backup requires specific inverter architecture that most installers don't configure — because it takes time and knowledge they're not being paid for.
The wrong inverter locks you into a closed platform, limits battery expandability, and underperforms for years. Most homeowners only discover this when they want to add capacity later — and find out it's incompatible or prohibitively expensive.
Free quote payback calculations assume peak export rates, perfect sun hours, and consumption patterns that rarely match reality. A properly modelled system produces numbers you can actually hold someone to.
A solar and battery system designed without accounting for your EV charger or heat pump will underperform from day one. These loads change everything: sizing, battery chemistry, tariff strategy, and smart scheduling.
The limitations of an under-designed system don't show up on the quote — they show up on your energy bills, at 10pm in winter when the battery runs out, and when you ask about adding capacity and discover the system can't expand.
A 30-minute strategy call costs £120. An undersized system costs thousands — every year, for the next twenty years.
Book My Strategy Call — £120Not in theory. In the real experience of living with a system that looked fine on the quote sheet.
Undersized storage means you're back on grid tariff every evening — precisely when you expected to be self-sufficient. Thousands of UK solar owners live with this daily, years into a system they can't easily fix.
A grid-tied solar and battery system without backup configuration goes completely dark in a power cut. Your panels stop generating. Your battery stops discharging. This is entirely avoidable — and routinely not addressed.
The wrong platform locks you in. Adding battery capacity in 2027–28 — when prices drop further — becomes either impossible or requires a full system redesign. Platform choice now determines your options for a decade.
Poor roof layout, unanalysed shading, and no tariff strategy can reduce annual yield by 20–35%. On a £30,000 system, that's a substantial financial loss compounding year on year — invisible until you start comparing properly.
Without smart scheduling around your EV and heat pump, you may export at 4p/kWh and buy back at 28p. Tariff optimisation and load alignment can transform the economics — but only if it's designed in from the start.
Battery prices are falling. A system designed today with future expandability in mind costs far less to upgrade in 2027–28 than one that requires significant rewiring, inverter replacement, or platform migration.
"The cost of a poorly designed solar and battery system is not the upfront price — it's the compounding underperformance for the next twenty years."
A private session with a senior Artisan Electrics engineer. No scripts, no product push, no agenda other than giving you the clearest picture you've ever had of what a high-performance energy system looks like for your home specifically.
A one-off fee for expert, unbiased advice. Not a sales call. Not a quote. Professional guidance on a £25,000–£40,000 decision.
By the end of the call, you'll have clear, specific answers to:
We believe in giving you genuinely useful, expert advice — not a rehearsed presentation designed to move you towards a sale.
If, at the end of the strategy call, you don't feel you've received more clarity, confidence and practical direction than any free solar quote you've ever had — tell us. We'll refund your £120 in full, immediately, without question.
We make this offer because we're confident in what we deliver. The only way a guarantee like this makes sense is if the call is genuinely worth attending.
This guarantee applies to the quality of advice delivered during the consultation. It does not extend to installation outcomes, system performance projections, or quotes produced subsequently. Artisan Electrics (Cambridge) Ltd does not guarantee specific financial returns or energy savings for any property.
When a solar company visits your home for free, that visit has a cost — recouped through the margin on the installation. The business model requires conversion. The advice is shaped, consciously or not, by the need to sell.
When you pay £120 for professional advice, you're buying exactly that — professional advice. Our engineers have no interest in your decision other than that it should be the right one for your home.
This changes the entire quality of the conversation.
| What you get | Free quote | Strategy call |
|---|---|---|
| Time spent on your project | Minutes | 30 minutes |
| Primary motivation | Win the sale | Give you the truth |
| Battery sizing basis | Stock / margin | Your actual usage |
| Backup assessed? | Rarely | Always |
| EV / heat pump considered? | Often ignored | Central to design |
| Tariff optimisation | Generic | Specific to you |
| If solar isn't right for you | Rarely disclosed | We'll tell you |
We don't do free site visits followed by a pressure-sell. Our process protects your time, improves your decisions, and ensures that if you invest, you do so with complete confidence.
A private session with a senior engineer. We review your property, energy consumption, and goals — and give you a clear, specific direction. No scripts, no product push.
A complete engineering document built around your property. Not a quote with a floor plan — a fully designed system specification with verifiable projections.
The £1,200 is credited in full if you proceed to installation.
Our in-house team handles every aspect. The people who designed your system brief the people who install it. No subcontracting on core works.
We publish these figures because transparency is how this works. If the ranges below are above your current budget, we'd rather you know now.
Adding high-capacity storage to an existing solar system
Solar array specified for future battery addition
Full bespoke system — our most common project type
Final costs depend on roof complexity, battery capacity required, electrical infrastructure, and component selection. Your exact figure is established during the Design & Proposal stage — not before. We don't believe in ballpark quotes followed by surprises on installation day.
We take a small number of projects each month and want to be direct about who will get the most value from a strategy call.
Because it changes the nature of the conversation entirely. When you pay for professional advice, you receive professional advice — not a sales pitch. Our consultants are engineers, not salespeople. The £120 covers preparation time, review of your energy data, and 30 minutes of undivided technical attention.
It also means we speak with homeowners who are genuinely serious about this decision. That makes for a far better, more productive conversation.
Then that's exactly what you'll hear. We'd rather advise you to wait for better battery pricing, sort your roof first, or focus on other energy improvements — than proceed with an installation that isn't in your long-term interest.
That honesty is the foundation of our reputation. It's also considerably more valuable to you than an optimistic quote.
Yes. The strategy call is yours — the guidance is genuinely useful regardless of who installs your system. We're not in the business of gatekeeping information to force a commercial outcome.
Three free quotes give you three prices, not three system designs. Without understanding what's actually being proposed — battery chemistry, inverter architecture, backup configuration, yield methodology — comparing them is almost meaningless.
Most homeowners who come to us have already had several free quotes. They come to us because the quotes raised more questions than they answered.
For a premium, properly designed solar and battery installation in the UK, typical costs range from £25,000–£40,000 for a full solar array plus high-capacity battery storage. Battery retrofits to existing solar systems typically range from £15,000–£30,000. Solar-only installations start from around £10,000.
These are ranges for properly specified systems using premium components. Cheaper quotes exist — but they usually reflect compromises in battery sizing, inverter quality, or system design that cost more in the long run.
We are based in Cambridge and currently work across the East of England and surrounding regions. Strategy calls are available remotely to homeowners anywhere in the UK. Whether we can install for your specific location is confirmed during or after the consultation.
After thorough evaluation, Sigenergy offers the most capable and expandable residential energy architecture currently available in the UK market. It provides genuine whole-home backup, modular battery expansion, excellent monitoring, and a grid-forming inverter architecture that most competing systems don't offer at residential scale.
We specify it because it performs — not because of commercial incentives. We cover the technical comparison in detail on our YouTube channel.
For a £25,000–£40,000 installation, the design fee represents 3–5% of the total investment. It's the cost of certainty: a complete engineering specification, verified yield forecasts, a fixed price, and the confidence of knowing exactly what you're getting before installation begins.
It's also credited in full against the installation cost if you proceed — so in practice, if you go ahead, it costs you nothing additional.
Whole-home backup means your home continues to run on battery power during a grid outage — without any interruption or manual switching. It requires a grid-forming inverter with islanding capability, correctly configured protection, and adequate battery capacity for your loads.
Most standard solar and battery installations do not include this — the system simply shuts down when the grid fails. Proper backup requires specific equipment and design, which is one of the things we assess during the strategy call.
A 30-minute call with a senior engineer. The clearest, most honest picture of your home's solar and battery options you'll ever receive. Backed by a full-refund guarantee.