Battery storage in Brighton & Hove

What decides a battery job in Brighton & Hove

Where the stack can go, what the board and the supply will take, and how much the house actually uses after dark. These are the local facts behind those three questions in Brighton & Hove.

One house, or four flats

A whole terrace house is a straightforward survey: the basement if it has one, a rear addition or the loft if it does not, and a size that comes from your own evening consumption. A house converted into flats is a different job. Each flat has its own supply and meter, the common parts have another, and a battery serves one of them. It needs the freeholder or managing agent’s agreement, a position that meets the fire-safety specification, and a cable route that does not cross someone else’s part of the building. Some conversions can; a good many cannot, and we say which at the survey rather than after a deposit.

The array side — rear slopes and ballasted flat roofs doing most of the work — is on solar panels in Brighton & Hove. Can a Brighton flat have a battery? is the honest long answer.

Hove, the Regency squares and the listed question

Hove’s avenues and the Regency squares put a lot of listed buildings in the mix. The stack is indoors and the outside of the building is untouched, but where the house is listed the position and the cable runs can need consent, so we put a drawing to the conservation officer first. The county picture and the lines we fit are on the battery storage page; Shoreham-by-Sea and Burgess Hill are the neighbouring pages, electricians in Brighton & Hove is the same team on the board, and the East Sussex edge starts at Lewes.

What a battery changes on the bill

Without storage a typical home uses somewhere around half of what its panels make and exports the rest; the Smart Export Guarantee pays for those exported units, but at less than you pay to buy them back in the evening. A battery sized to the evening load keeps most of that surplus at home. The size is the whole question, which is why we read half-hourly consumption from the meter where it will give it and the bills where it will not, and why the calculator asks for your bill before it says a number.

Two things people in Brighton & Hove ask before they book

“We are the top-floor flat — the roof is ours to use, surely?”

Usually the roof belongs to the freeholder even when your flat is the one under it, and the battery needs a position and a supply that are yours. Lease first, then survey — we will read it with you.

“Our only space is the basement — is that a problem?”

The specification cares about location, clearances and detection; we care about the wall and the air as well. A dry, ventilated basement is often the best position in the city. A wet one is not a position at all, and we say so.

Questions we get asked in Brighton & Hove

Can a flat in Brighton have a home battery?

Sometimes. It needs the freeholder or managing agent’s consent, a supply and meter that are yours, a position that meets PAS 63100, and a cable route inside your own part of the building. We tell you at the survey which of those your flat has, and we do not take a deposit before that.

Which operator receives the battery notification in BN1, BN2 and BN3?

UK Power Networks — group J across the city, checked on 15 October 2026. G98 for an inverter up to 16 amps per phase, a G99 application above that, both made by us before the system is energised.