Wimborne splits into two jobs. The town centre and the streets around the Minster are a conservation area with older cottages and slate roofs, where panel placement and the choice of all-black panels make the difference between a scheme that is waved through and one that is not. Colehill, Corfe Mullen and Merley are mostly larger detached and link-detached houses from the 1970s onwards, with simple roofs and the kind of family electricity use, with two cars and a utility room, that a 4 kW system and a battery are built for.
The villages between Wimborne and Blandford are on overhead lines and see more winter power cuts than the conurbation. Backup from an OCEAN 2 is the feature people ask about most out here.