Guides
Guides to solar and heating funding in North Wales
The main pages explain each scheme. These guides cover the questions around them: how much your roof might make, what to do in a heating emergency, renting, your EPC, misleading offers and the dates ahead.
In brief
Start with the question you have. Weighing up solar: the yield guide. No heating: the crisis route. Renting: renters and landlords. Holding an offer: spotting fake offers. Planning ahead: the timeline.
Checked at source on 3 November 2026 · An independent guide from SEO-DONS LTD, not the Welsh Government, Nest or a council
How they're written
Welsh sources first
Where a rule is Welsh, the guides use the Welsh Government's own sources: the Nest annual report, gov.wales guidance on planning and building regulations. Where it's UK-wide, they use GOV.UK, HMRC and Ofgem. Local figures come from the Census and PVGIS. Every guide lists its sources and the date we read them.
They don't recommend installers, lenders or products, and they never tell anyone they qualify for a scheme. Their job is to explain the rules clearly enough for you to check them, and to point to the official place to do it. Each guide also links to the scheme pages it relies on, so you can move from a general question to the detail of a particular route without starting again.
Two of the guides lean heavily on local numbers. The yield guide uses PVGIS estimates for Llangefni, Caernarfon, Conwy, Ruthin, Mold and Wrexham; the crisis-route guide uses the Welsh Government's figures for each of the six council areas. If you're comparing your own home with those figures, remember they describe averages or a standard roof, not your house.
For short answers, see questions; for terms, the glossary; for everything we rely on, sources.
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What happens next
- Your message reaches SEO-DONS LTD, which publishes this guide.
- We reply by email with the scheme page that fits, if there is one.
- Any application is between you and that scheme.