Checking your surface against the planning rules
We look at the wall, roof or yard and tell you whether the rules cover it.
Read this pageWhich company covers you
One distribution licence covers the whole of Yorkshire, held by Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) plc. Our map is regional rather than postcode by postcode, so check yours against their own checker before you send anything in.
Or skip the lookup and call 105 from any phone. The call is free anywhere in England, Scotland or Wales, and whoever picks up will tell you your network operator.
The boundary in the north of the county
Fourteen licence areas cover Great Britain, and two of them carry the Northern Powergrid name as separate companies. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) plc holds the licence for the ground to the north of us, and a house near the top of North Yorkshire can land on either side of that line. The branding on a van in the street won't tell you which.
Two minutes on a postcode checker settles it better than any regional map, ours included.
What the form asks for
The government calls it registration of product use with distribution network operators in Great Britain, and it's a short online form. You fill it in within 28 days of the panel going in, giving your name, your email address and where it was installed. The assessment reckons on five to ten minutes.
That is a description of how the process is meant to work rather than a criminal deadline, and we word it here the way the assessment does. We send you the link, we sit with you while you fill the form in, and we keep a copy of what was sent.
Why they need to know
A plug-in panel is a small generator connected to the low voltage network. The connection requirements for it are in Engineering Recommendation G98, which the Energy Networks Association raised on 1 April 2026 and Ofgem approved on 11 August 2026. It took effect with the rest of the change on 27 August 2026.
Nobody is going to come and inspect your yard. The operator wants to know what is connected where, which is a reasonable thing for the company running the cable to want.
One panel per household
The specification permits one panel per final ring circuit, but the number that actually sticks comes from the network side. G98 Issue 2 Amendment 1 fixes it at one per household. That's the answer for a Yorkshire house, and the network rule is what decides it.
Should that limit move, it will move inside G98, and we'll update this page when it does.
Questions about notifying
What happens if I forget?
The impact assessment describes this as something a consumer is asked to do. It does not set out an offence or a penalty, and we are not going to invent one. Send it within the 28 days and the question does not come up.
Does the supplier do it for me?
The registration is described as something the consumer completes. We go through it with you rather than claiming to have done it for you, because the name and address on the form are yours.
I am right on the edge of the county. Who do I tell?
Use the operator's postcode checker, or ring 105 and let them route you. Near the northern boundary the answer can be the North East licence rather than the Yorkshire one, and a checker settles it in a minute.
On this page
- Which company covers you
- The boundary in the north of the county
- What the form asks for
- Why they need to know
- One panel per household
- Questions about notifying
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