Areas we cover · East of England · Cambridge
Solar panels in Cambridge — installed, repaired and serviced by one team
In the city and across Cambridgeshire — Romsey, Chesterton, Cherry Hinton and Trumpington, out to Histon, Cottenham, Sawston, Cambourne, Ely, St Ives and Huntingdon — our own engineers install solar PV and battery systems, and repair and service systems fitted by any installer. We install our own systems and repair everyone else’s, so we know exactly how they fail.
Mon–Fri 9:00am–5:00pm · Clear written quote before any work starts
Talk to us about solar, batteries or repairs.
Call 0800 156 0191, Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm, or send us a message through our contact page.
MCS certified
NAPIT registered
TrustMark approved
Fully insured
England, Wales & Scotland
What we do in Cambridge
Solar panel installers for Cambridge, Ely and Huntingdon.
Whether the system is two years old or fifteen, you deal with our own engineers and get a clear written quote.
Solar panel installation in Cambridge
New solar PV, with or without a battery, surveyed and fitted by our own MCS certified engineers.
Solar panel repair in Cambridge
We find out why the system has stopped or dropped, and put it right, whoever fitted it.
Inverter repair in Cambridge
Inverters showing a fault code, tripping out or sitting dead on the wall. Same-week repair or replacement on SolarEdge, SMA, Fronius, Growatt, Solis, SolaX and other makes.
Servicing and battery storage in Cambridge
A yearly health check of the panels, inverter, isolators and wiring, and storage added to an existing array or fitted with new panels. See what a solar battery costs.
Fen dust, bird mess or pigeons under the panels cutting the output? See solar panel cleaning and solar panel bird proofing. Not sure what the fault is? Start with solar panel repair. Useful guides: why solar panels stop working, our solar panel maintenance checklist and how long solar inverters last.
Areas of Cambridge we cover
Where we work in and around Cambridge.
Our engineers work across CB1 to CB5 in the city — Romsey, Petersfield and the streets off Mill Road, Cherry Hinton, Trumpington, Newnham, Chesterton, Arbury, King’s Hedges and Abbey — and the South Cambridgeshire villages in CB21 to CB25, from Fulbourn, Sawston and Great Shelford to Cambourne, Histon, Cottenham and Waterbeach. Further out we cover CB6 and CB7 around Ely and Soham, and PE27, PE29 and PE19 for St Ives, Huntingdon and St Neots. If your village isn’t listed, tell us the postcode and we’ll confirm cover.
- Romsey
- Petersfield
- Cherry Hinton
- Trumpington
- Newnham
- Chesterton
- Arbury
- King’s Hedges
- Girton
- Histon
- Milton
- Waterbeach
- Cottenham
- Fulbourn
- Sawston
- Great Shelford
- Cambourne
- Ely
- Soham
- St Ives
- Huntingdon
- St Neots
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Solar in Cambridge
Cambridge’s electric bin lorries are getting their own solar park.
In January 2026 Cambridge City Council announced that construction had begun on the Waterbeach Renewable Energy Network, a £6.1 million scheme at the councils’ Waterbeach Depot jointly funded with South Cambridgeshire District Council and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority. A one-megawatt solar system paired with a battery will feed 36 electric vehicle charging points, because the local grid does not have the capacity to power more electric bin lorries without it; the Greater Cambridge Shared Waste service plans to have 18 in operation by 2027, up from four when work began. Due for completion in late 2026, it is expected to supply 59% of the depot’s total energy needs. Councillor Rosy Moore called it “a landmark moment for cleaner, greener waste and recycling collections in Greater Cambridge.”
A battery beside the panels is the same choice many Cambridge households are now weighing up, because panels produce most around midday and most homes use their power in the evening. If your system in Chesterton, Cherry Hinton or out in the villages is on an ageing inverter, inverter repair or replacement is a natural moment to look at battery storage too.
Source: Groundbreaking for renewable energy scheme to future-proof bin collections, Cambridge City Council, 13 January 2026.
Our work
Real jobs by our own engineers.
Photos from L&R jobs, each labelled with the place and year.
Why L&R
What you get from L&R in Cambridge.
We know Cambridge roofs
Close to the centre, Cambridge is Victorian gault brick and slate: the pale terraces of Romsey, Petersfield and the streets off Mill Road, with narrow roof slopes, chimney stacks and rear extensions that decide how many panels will fit. Further out come the 1930s semis of Cherry Hinton and Chesterton, and the newer estates at Trumpington, Eddington, Cambourne and Northstowe. In the villages it is thatch, clunch and old clay tiles, often inside a conservation area. The weather is on your side, as this is one of the driest parts of the country, which makes an underperforming system here worth chasing. The catch is dust: soil blown off open fen and farmland settles on panels faster than most people expect.
Our own engineers
The engineer who comes to your home in Cambridge works for us. We don’t use subcontractors.
A clear written quote
You get a clear written quote before any work starts, on a new system or on any installer’s existing one.
Questions
The things people ask before they ring.
Not answered here? Call 0800 156 0191, Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm.
Do you cover Ely, Huntingdon, St Ives and the villages around Cambridge?
Yes. Our engineers cover Cambridge and the rest of Cambridgeshire, from Histon, Cottenham and Waterbeach to Sawston, Great Shelford and Cambourne, and out to Ely, Soham, St Ives, Huntingdon and St Neots; Peterborough has its own page. Call 0800 156 0191 or tell us your postcode in the fault finder and we’ll confirm cover.
Will you repair a system in Cambridge that another company installed?
Yes. We repair and service systems fitted by any installer, including installers who are no longer trading, and we work on any make of panel, inverter or battery. See solar panel repair and inverter repair.
Can you fit solar to a thatched or listed cottage in a village near Cambridge?
Not on the thatch itself, but there is usually another way. A listed cottage needs listed building consent, and in a village conservation area panels on a slope facing the street can need planning permission, so we check before the survey and tell you where you stand. A rear tiled slope, a garage or outbuilding, or a ground-mounted array in the garden is often the better answer. See solar panel installations.
Ready when you are
Solar not doing what it should in Cambridge? Tell us.
We’ll call you back to talk it through, and you get a clear written quote before any work starts. Mon–Fri 9:00am–5:00pm.