BETA PREVIEW: UK Grid: Live+ is in testing. See data sources →
UK Grid: Live+ Great Britain's electricity grid, live and over time

Registration

Every compliant plug-in solar kit must be registered before (or as part of) fitting it - this is what stands in for the fuller G98 network-notification process a bigger system would otherwise need. It's a short online form, not a site visit or an approval you wait weeks for.

A plug-in solar kit MUST connect directly into a wall socket. Do not use extension leads, multi-way adaptors, travel adaptors or RCD adaptors - the Interim Product Specification requires a direct plug-to-socket connection. See Extension leads for why.

How to register

  1. Check the kit is compliant. Confirm your exact model is on the ENA's live Type Test Register before you buy or fit it - see Certification.
  2. Check your home isn't excluded. Certain cladding types, buildings under remediation, and some leasehold situations need landlord/freeholder sign-off first - see Mounting.
  3. Go to myplugin.solar. Create a registration with your address, the kit's make/model, and roughly which socket or circuit it'll be plugged into.
  4. The portal notifies your network operator automatically. This is the simplified route to the existing G98 requirement - you don't contact your DNO yourself.
  5. Fit the kit following the manufacturer's instructions, using a properly rated bracket (see Mounting) and checking your consumer unit and circuit first (see Considerations).
  6. Keep your registration confirmation. It's useful evidence for your home insurer, and for a future buyer or new tenant if you move.

One device per household. Your registration covers exactly one plug-in solar kit. This is a hard limit under the current G98 framework, not a soft guideline - it's expected to relax to one per circuit once G98 itself is formally amended, but until then, a second kit anywhere in the same household falls outside what's been registered and risk-assessed. See Considerations for why this matters on a shared ring circuit specifically.

What if you don't register?

There's no export payment for these systems, so there's no financial "workaround" incentive to skip registration the way there might be for a bigger, export-metered system. But it's still a genuine requirement, not an optional courtesy: your network operator's records of what's connected to the local network exist for safety reasons (so engineers know what could be live), and an unregistered device is technically a breach of the connection notification requirement. Register it - it takes a few minutes and there's no reason not to.

Northern Ireland registration gap

myplugin.solar routes registrations to Great Britain's distribution network operators - it does not currently cover Northern Ireland, whose network operator (NIE Networks) has its own separate G98-equivalent framework that hasn't yet been amended to match. If you're in Northern Ireland, this simplified registration route isn't available to you yet - see Mounting for the wider nations comparison.

Sources