Noel Park was laid out from about 1881 as a grid of roughly 2,000 terraced houses, Haringey’s conservation-area appraisal records, decades before anyone parked a car in the street outside. If you live on one of those avenues, or in a Woodside flat, and you drive or plan to drive an electric car, three questions arrive together: where the car charges, how much your roof can put into it, and whether a home battery belongs in between. This guide takes them in that order.
The roof side, including Noel Park’s Article 4 rule on panels facing the street, is on our page about solar panels in Wood Green. Here we deal with the car and how it fits alongside panels on an N22 house.
Haringey’s plug-in count, read carefully
DVLA records 4,127 plug-in vehicles kept by private owners across Haringey at the end of June 2026, against 3,531 a year earlier: 596 more, a rise of about 17% on our arithmetic. The figure covers the whole borough, Tottenham and Muswell Hill included, and counts vehicles where the registered keeper lives, so it is not a count of chargers or of Wood Green households with an EV. We use the privately kept figure because company registrations would otherwise inflate it; Haringey’s total across all keepers is higher.
Parking comes before panels
Wood Green’s housing decides where a car can charge. In Noel Park ward, 32.8% of 5,342 households live in terraced houses and 33.3% in purpose-built flats; in Woodside, 39.3% of 6,187 households live in purpose-built flats and 26.9% in converted or shared houses (Census 2021). Across the two wards only 29.2% of households own their home, while 38.5% rent privately and 30.3% rent socially (our sums). For most, a chargepoint, panels or a battery needs a landlord’s or freeholder’s agreement before anything else.
OZEV’s grants follow the same lines. Renters and people who own and live in flats can claim 75% of the cost, up to £500 per socket, if they have private off-street or allocated parking. Where parking is on the street only, up to £500 is available towards a chargepoint installed with an approved cross-pavement solution, subject to the council’s rules, so Haringey’s position is the first thing to check for a Noel Park terrace. Owner-occupiers of houses get no grant: the scheme that covered them closed in April 2022. Our guide to who qualifies for the EV chargepoint grant has the detail.
What a Wood Green roof can put into a car
PVGIS 5.3, the European Commission’s solar model, estimates about 3,956 kWh a year from a 4 kWp array facing due south at 35° in Wood Green, with about 475 kWh in June and 142 kWh in December. That is roughly 15.8 kWh on an average June day and 4.6 kWh on an average December day, on our arithmetic. These are figures for an unshaded south-facing roof, not a survey result. In Noel Park the panels go on the rear slope, because the estate’s Article 4 direction, in force since 21 December 2020, withdraws the permitted-development right for solar equipment on street elevations, and a rear slope on a narrow plot may hold less than 4 kWp.
Set that against the car. A full 60 kWh charge at the Ofgem cap unit rate of 26.32p per kWh for October to December 2026 costs about £15.79 on our arithmetic, and off-peak EV tariffs price overnight units well below that rate. An average June day on that Wood Green roof makes about a quarter of 60 kWh; an average December day makes under a tenth. Panels help most with a car that is at home and plugged in on summer days, after the house has taken what it is using at the time.
Where the battery fits
A home battery is not a tank for the car. The Energy Saving Trust gives 10 kWh as a typical home system, a sixth of a 60 kWh charge, and says there is no exact formula for sizing. In a Wood Green terrace its job is usually the household’s evening use: storing midday output from the rear slope for after dark, while the car charges overnight on a cheaper rate where your tariff has one. In December, an average day on the roof makes about 4.6 kWh, less than a 5 kWh battery holds. Our page on battery storage in Wood Green covers where a unit goes in a mid-terrace with no side access.
The fuse and the network
A 7.4 kW home charger draws 32 A continuously. Most homes have a 60 A, 80 A or 100 A main fuse, and load management, a current sensor on the incoming supply, usually avoids an upgrade. UK Power Networks, whose Eastern Power Networks area takes in Wood Green’s town centre, says it can upgrade a main fuse from 30 or 60 A to 80 or 100 A. Where a supply is looped with a neighbour’s, it has to be re-planned with both households and may carry a charge, so the survey of an N22 terrace starts at the meter.
The installer notifies UK Power Networks of the chargepoint, and of panels and a battery too. Under ENA EREC G98, generation up to and including 16 A per phase (3.68 kW) is notified before commissioning or within 28 days after; above that, a G99 application must be approved before work starts. A modest Noel Park rear-slope array with a battery can stay on the G98 route, but the survey checks the combined inverter rating. In a power cut, a standard grid-tied battery shuts down with the grid, so neither the house nor the charger keeps running unless backup has been designed in and priced as its own line.
VAT on a combined quote
Solar panels and home batteries are zero-rated for VAT until 31 March 2027, with 5% from 1 April 2027. A home chargepoint is not on the energy-saving materials list, so its installation is standard-rated at 20%. On a combined quote, check that the charger line carries its own VAT; our guide to VAT on solar panels and batteries explains the rule. It is also worth weighing the house itself: in the Southgate and Wood Green constituency only 28.4% of terraced houses reach EPC band C, so loft or wall insulation may deserve a place in the same conversation. Our solar panels in North London hub covers the boroughs around Haringey.
Sources: Department for Transport and DVLA, VEH0142 licensed plug-in vehicles by local authority, Haringey, 2025 Q2 and 2026 Q2 (published 23 September 2026); London Borough of Haringey, Noel Park Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan, and Article 4(1) direction, Noel Park, confirmed 17 December 2020; ONS Census 2021 via Nomis, TS044 and TS054, Noel Park (E05013595) and Woodside (E05013605) wards (our sums); ONS, Energy efficiency of housing in England and Wales (28 October 2025), Southgate and Wood Green constituency; PVGIS 5.3 (European Commission JRC), PVGIS-SARAH3 2005–2023, run 15 October 2026; Ofgem, energy price cap October to December 2026; Energy Saving Trust, Battery storage (updated 19 August 2026); OZEV, Changes to electric vehicle chargepoint grant schemes from 1 April 2026 (updated 7 July 2026); Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021; HMRC VAT Notice 708/6; UK Power Networks, fuse upgrade guidance; UK Power Networks Open Data licence boundaries (December 2024); Energy Networks Association, EREC G98 Issue 2 (10 March 2025).