Decision Packs

Decision Packs

For households who already have a solar or battery quotation in hand and want to weigh it up — comparing options, or asking whether adding a battery to a proposed solar system is worthwhile. The free calculators on this site are for exploration; a Decision Pack brings your estimates, assumptions and installer questions together into one downloadable record. Planned price £5, one off.

Solar & Battery Decision Pack

A closer look at your proposed investment.

This is an unpaid preview — checkout is not connected, so nothing is charged. You can build a full pack, read the report and download a working PDF before it goes on sale.

Free calculators or a Decision Pack?

Comparison of features available in the free calculators and in a Decision Pack.
FeatureFree calculatorsDecision Pack
Explore costs and savingsIncludedIncluded
Enter your own figuresIncludedIncluded
Change individual assumptionsIncludedIncluded
Inspect calculation assumptionsIncludedIncluded
Keep calculation figures on your deviceIncludedIncluded
No-solar, solar and solar-plus-battery compared in one consistent reportNot includedIncluded
Selected sensitivity cases collected togetherIndividual calculators have their own scenarios, but they are not gathered into one place.Not includedIncluded
Installer questions matched to your figuresNot includedIncluded
Downloadable PDF decision recordNot includedIncluded

Planned next

Not available in this preview yet — these are shown so you can see the direction, not as built features:

  • Side-by-side comparison of two competing quotations.
  • Wider high and low scenario tables.
  • Payback-target planning against a year you choose.

Who it helps and what to have ready

A pack is most useful once you have a real quotation to judge. Have these figures to hand before you start:

  • Installed cost of the solar system and the battery (from your quote).
  • Solar generation estimate for your roof (kWh per year, or kWp and orientation).
  • Battery size being quoted (kWh).
  • Your annual household electricity consumption, including any solar you already use.
  • Your import and export unit rates (pence per kWh).

What a pack is and is not

  • It is an automated planning estimate built from figures you confirm, using one common hourly model.
  • It is not an installer accreditation or workmanship check, and it does not replace a technical survey.

Why the extra battery matters on its own terms

A battery added to solar costs more, so the question is whether the extra saving from that battery — shifting more of your generation into your home and away from the grid — is large enough to earn its cost back. The pack shows the incremental battery saving against the solar-alone option, not just the combined headline, so you can see what the battery is actually contributing.