Battery storage in Shoreham-by-Sea

What decides a battery job in Shoreham-by-Sea

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 Shoreham-by-Sea.

Inland of the railway: the semis, and the garage question

North of the line the town is semis with a side path, a garage or a utility, and that is where Shoreham batteries are easiest: a cool wall out of the living space that meets the PAS 63100 location and clearance rules without argument, a short cable run to the board, and an inverter sized against the actual evening load. We take half-hourly consumption from the smart meter where it will give it and the bills where it will not, and we size from that.

The harbour-side streets are different. Tight access, older stock and conservation-area frontages: the stack goes indoors or on a rear wall, the enclosure is marine-rated if it is outside at all, and the question of whose wall it is gets asked before the survey ends. A battery by the sea covers the siting in detail; solar panels in Shoreham-by-Sea is the roof side.

Flats, leases and community energy

A quarter of Shoreham households are in flats, and we would rather say the awkward part first: a battery in a flat needs the freeholder or managing agent on side, a supply that is yours rather than communal, and a position that satisfies the same fire-safety specification as a house. Some blocks can; some cannot. The town also has live community energy — the Shoreham Society reported in September 2025 on not-for-profit schemes putting rooftop solar on local buildings through community share offers — which is a reasonable route for a household whose roof or lease rules a system out. The lines we fit are compared in Sigenergy, Fox ESS and Hanchu, and Brighton & Hove and Worthing are covered from the same base.

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 Shoreham-by-Sea ask before they book

“Can a battery go outside in the salt air?”

It can, in a corrosion-rated enclosure on marine-grade fixings, and we specify it that way or we put it inside. What we will not do is hang a standard unit on a seafront wall and hope.

“I am a leaseholder — is it pointless asking?”

Not pointless, but honest: the lease and the supply decide it before the kit does. Send us the lease wording on alterations and a photo of the meter cupboard and we will tell you whether it is worth a survey.

Questions we get asked in Shoreham-by-Sea

Which network operator receives the notification for a battery in Shoreham-by-Sea?

UK Power Networks — BN43 is group J. An inverter up to 16 amps per phase is notified under G98; anything larger is applied for under G99 before it is switched on. We do both, and the MPAN on your bill is what we check it against.

Does a battery in one of the Shoreham conservation areas need planning permission?

Indoors, no — it is an electrical installation. On a visible outside wall inside one of the five conservation areas the Article 4 directions can apply, so we site it to the rear or inside and check with Adur District Council if there is any doubt, before the quote rather than after the install.