ME14 · 21.8 miles from Keston
Coutts Electrical Contractors cover Maidstone from their Keston office — 21.8 miles away. The same engineers, the same accreditations and the same published guide prices as everywhere else on this map.
01 Services in Maidstone
There is no reduced service list for Maidstone. Solar and storage lead the work; the electrical trade underneath it is what makes the install safe.
02 The coverage picture
Every bar below is a real straight-line distance between two published sets of coordinates. Maidstone is highlighted, and the three nearest towns are marked.
03 On the record
Local pages usually invent detail. These are the facts that trace to a real measurement, or to something Coutts Electrical publish themselves — each shown with where it came from.
Maidstone town centre is 21.8 miles (35.1 km) from the Coutts Electrical office at Unit 2 Glebe Farm Business Park, Westerham Road, Keston.
Great-circle distance between published coordinates, computed in _tools/gen-areas.cjsMaidstone falls inside the ME14 postcode area, within the South East London and Kent patch Coutts Electrical cover.
Royal Mail postcode area; coverage claim from couttselectrical.co.uk/areas-coveredA 4 kWp south-facing array at Maidstone's coordinates is modelled at about 4,227 kWh a year — a long-term average for an unshaded roof at 35°, not a quote for any particular house.
PVGIS 5.3 (EU Joint Research Centre), SARAH3 database, 4 kWp south-facing at 35° with 14% system loss, long-term average for an unshaded roof; read 6 October 2026Maidstone is on South Eastern Power Networks (SPN), the UK Power Networks licence area that handles G98/G99 connection applications for solar, batteries and EV chargers here (looked up for ME14 1AA).
Elexon grid supply point group for a postcode in the town, via the Octopus Energy industry lookup; read 6 October 20265,715 solar PV installations were registered across the Maidstone Borough at the end of 2025, up 75% on the 3,266 recorded at the end of 2020.
DESNZ, Renewable electricity by local authority 2014 to 2025, sheets "LA - Sites", "LA - Capacity" and "LA - Generation", as at end of 2025Those installations total 36.8 MW — an average of 6.4 kW each — and generated about 33,515 MWh in 2025.
DESNZ, Renewable electricity by local authority 2014 to 2025, sheets "LA - Sites", "LA - Capacity" and "LA - Generation", as at end of 2025That is roughly 8.0% of the 71,200 households DESNZ estimates for the Maidstone Borough, so most roofs in Maidstone do not yet have panels.
DESNZ, Renewable electricity by local authority 2014 to 2025, sheets "LA - Sites", "LA - Capacity" and "LA - Generation", as at end of 2025The average house price in the Maidstone Borough was £352,722 in July 2026.
HM Land Registry UK House Price Index, July 2026 (latest month published at 6 October 2026)The South East region's mean installed cost in 2025/26 was £1,859 per kW for systems up to 4 kW and £1,721 per kW for 4–10 kW systems — a regional mean across all installers, not a Coutts price.
DESNZ Solar PV cost data 2025/26, "Regional costs (TIC)" sheet, mean total installed cost per kW; includes VAT where applicable and mixes domestic and non-domestic installsThe published guide pricing applies here as anywhere: a 4kWp array with 10kWh of battery capacity from £9,500, inclusive of VAT currently at 0%.
Guide-pricing table, couttselectrical.co.uk/solar-pvAgainst the three closest towns on this map — Tonbridge (11.9 mi away, 4,245 kWh), Sevenoaks (14.4 mi away, 4,192 kWh), Westerham (19.4 mi away, 4,164 kWh) — Maidstone's modelled 4 kWp yield of 4,227 kWh is within the same band as its neighbours. Roof pitch, orientation and shading matter far more than which of these towns a house is in.
PVGIS 5.3 (EU Joint Research Centre), SARAH3 database, 4 kWp south-facing at 35° with 14% system loss, long-term average for an unshaded roof; read 6 October 2026Tonbridge, Sevenoaks and Westerham — the three closest towns to Maidstone on this map — are all on South Eastern Power Networks (SPN) with it.
Elexon grid supply point group for a postcode in the town, via the Octopus Energy industry lookup; read 6 October 2026No customer name, job address or completed-installation claim is attached to Maidstone anywhere on this page. Coutts Electrical's published reviews and gallery do not record locations, so tying either to a town would be an invention rather than a fact.
04 Electrical work in Maidstone
The same four trades as everywhere on this map, with the Maidstone numbers attached. Nearby: Tonbridge, Sevenoaks, Westerham.
Coutts Electrical are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and where emergency attendance is requested an engineer is dispatched within 30 minutes. Maidstone is 21.8 miles from the Keston office, so you get the engineers who cover the office's own patch. Call 0800 112 5050 or read about the emergency service.
Out-of-hours callouts, what to do first and how we reach Maidstone: emergency electrician in Maidstone.
Private landlords in the Maidstone Borough must hold an Electrical Installation Condition Report for every tenancy and put right any C1 or C2 finding within 28 days; the maximum penalty under the 2020 regulations is now £40,000. Commercial premises need periodic inspection too. Coutts carry out EICR testing for homes, landlords and businesses in Maidstone, with the remedial work done by the same team.
Landlord, homeowner and business inspections in detail: EICR in Maidstone.
PVGIS models about 4,227 kWh a year for a 4 kWp south-facing array here. 5,715 installations were registered across the Maidstone Borough at the end of 2025, averaging 6.4 kW each, and the South East regional mean installed cost was £1,859 per kW for systems up to 4 kW. Coutts' published guide price for a 4 kWp system with 10 kWh of battery is from £9,500, inclusive of VAT at 0%. See solar PV and battery storage.
Roofs, planning and yield: solar panels in Maidstone. Storing it for the evening: battery storage in Maidstone.
Home charge points in Maidstone are fitted by OZEV-approved Coutts engineers and notified to South Eastern Power Networks (SPN), the network operator for this part of the map, as part of the install. Where a house already has panels, the charger is set up to use them. Details and the charge-point options are on the EV charging page.
Parking, grants and the network operator: EV charger installation in Maidstone.
Maidstone is inside Kent County Council’s area, so the council-backed group-buying scheme covers you whenever a round is open: our guide to Switch Together Kent (formerly Solar Together) sets out how it works and when going direct to a local installer suits better.
PVGIS models 4,227 kWh a year from a 4 kWp south-facing array in Maidstone. On the assumptions below, that is worth about £610 a year on its own, or about £828 a year with a 10 kWh battery moving daytime generation into the evening. Coutts' guide price for a 4 kWp system with 10 kWh of battery is from £9,500, inclusive of VAT at 0% (the relief runs to 31 March 2027), confirmed by survey.
| Maidstone, 4 kWp south-facing | Used in the home | Exported | First-year value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Panels only | 719 kWh | 3,508 kWh | £610 |
| With a 10 kWh battery | 2,240 kWh | 1,987 kWh | £828 |
Illustrative first-year figures, not a guarantee. Import at 26.32p/kWh (Ofgem energy price cap, 1 Oct – 31 Dec 2026, electricity, Direct Debit, GB average unit rate (26.32p/kWh)); export at 12p/kWh (Outgoing Octopus Smart Export Guarantee tariff, 12p/kWh variable (Octopus customers with a half-hourly export meter), read 15 Oct 2026); self-use from MCS MGD 003 Issue 2.0 self-consumption tables, 2,500–2,999 kWh use, occupied half the day; a 2,500 kWh-a-year home. The full worked example and payback range are on solar panel cost in Kent; the schemes that can lower the bill are on solar and battery grants in Kent.
05 The work
Photographs are Coutts Electrical's own, of their own completed work. Captions name the system type rather than a location, because the images are not tied to a named customer or town.
06 Customers
Reviews from the Google profile Coutts Electrical publish. They are not location-tagged, so none is presented as a job in this town.
Max and his team installed my original solar panels a few years ago and have been back more recently to install the electrics for a heat pump and increase the number of panels. I'd recommend them in a heartbeat for any job you might have
Max and his team did a great job fitting anti-bird blockers around my solar panels, and removing the pigeon dirt and grime from the roof and gutters - not the pleasantest of jobs! Very efficient and prompt.
Max was very friendly, responsive and helpful in advising us when we needed some solar panels installed by the previous owner temporarily removed to allow for a new roof and an internal light switch fixed. Max and his team were excellent in removing the panels, cleaning them and reinstalling them with some new brackets as we changed the type of roof tile. Rearranging the time to reinstall them due to delays to the roofing caused by bad weather was not a problem. Would definitely use them again. Thanks
Three of the 30 reviews reproduced word for word on the reviews page.
07 Questions from Maidstone
Every answer below is built from the sourced figures on this page.
Maidstone is on South Eastern Power Networks (SPN), run by UK Power Networks. Any solar, battery or EV charger install is notified to them under the G98 or G99 process, which Coutts handle as part of every job.
PVGIS models about 4,227 kWh a year for a 4 kWp south-facing array at Maidstone's coordinates, assuming an unshaded roof at 35°. East- or west-facing roofs produce less, and a survey is the only way to size a real system.
DESNZ recorded 5,715 solar PV installations in the Maidstone Borough at the end of 2025, up 75% since 2020 — about 8.0% of its estimated 71,200 households.
Most roof-mounted solar on a house in England is permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 14, Class A of the General Permitted Development Order 2015, subject to its conditions. Listed buildings and some conservation-area roofs facing a highway are treated differently, so check with Maidstone Borough council before work starts if either applies.
Yes. Coutts Electrical are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and where emergency attendance is requested an engineer is dispatched within 30 minutes. Maidstone is 21.8 miles from the Keston office.
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