East Mids Register

A local register with nothing in it yet.

Which is an odd thing to lead with, and it is the point. Every directory in this market fills itself from whatever it can scrape. This one publishes the standard first and the entries second, so you can judge the list by how it was built rather than by how long it is.

East Midlands registerEntries: 0   Verified as at 13 September 2026
Trade or retailerListed forCoversChecked

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verified entries

Not because nobody is out there. Because we have not finished checking anybody against the standard below, and a directory that lists people it has not checked is worse than no directory at all.

A row will carry the trading name, what the trade is listed for, the postcodes it covers, and the date we last confirmed all three.

What this is a register of

Four things a listing has to sit inside. A trade that cannot place itself in all four is applying to the wrong board.

Licence areaEast Midlands. One of the fourteen that Great Britain is divided into for distribution.
Who runs itNational Grid Electricity Distribution (East Midlands) plc. A trade applying here ought to know its own licence area; anyone who does not can settle it in a minute by dialling 105.
Ground frame here754kWh a yearAt Nottingham, 30 degrees, due south, unshaded.
South wall here564kWh a yearSame device, same town, flat against brick.

The two figures are from PVGIS, queried on 13 September 2026 for an 800 W device losing 14 per cent, at Nottingham as the point standing for the region. They are a ceiling on a perfect day's worth of conditions, not a promise about anybody's wall, and a trade quoting them at you as a forecast has failed check 02.

The five checks

All five, or no listing. There is no partial pass and no paid shortcut.

Check 01

They exist and they are where they say

Company number or a trading address we can verify, and a phone number that is answered. Sounds obvious. It removes most of what a scraped directory would contain.

Check 02

They know what the rules changed

A short conversation. If somebody cannot tell us what happened on 27 August 2026, thinks a timber balcony is covered by the permitted development conditions, or cannot name the operator of the licence area they work in, they are not going on a list we publish.

Check 03

They are qualified for the work they are being listed for

Fitting an outdoor socket and replacing a circuit's overcurrent protection device are electrician work under the specification. A listing states what the trade is registered to do and with whom.

Check 04

They will quote against the register

A retailer listing here has to say which devices it sells that are on the ENA Type Test Register. We will not list a seller whose answer to that is a shrug.

Check 05

The listing carries the date we checked it

Verification goes stale. Every entry shows when it was last confirmed and is dropped when that date gets too old to mean anything.

Nobody pays to be on this

No listing fee, no featured placement, no commission on work that comes through it. A directory that takes money from the people it ranks is an advertising board with a directory font, and there are enough of those.

Apply, or ask to be told

One form, four kinds of person. Trades go into the queue for checking, householders go on to a list and hear once.

If you fit plug-in solar work in the East Midlands, or you sell devices that are on the ENA register, send the details and we will work through the five checks with you. It takes a phone call and some paperwork you already have.

If you are a householder, tell us the postcode and you will get one email when there is somebody near you worth sending you to. Not a newsletter. One email.

Listings are free and always will be. We reply either way, and a refusal comes with the check it failed.

Two sites, two jobs

This is the people half. For the rules themselves, the limits, the planning conditions, the notification and the generation figures for this region, the reference is the regional guide, which is set out as an alphabetical index.

They are deliberately not the same site. One tells you what the law says. This one is about who near you can be trusted to have read it.