Areas we cover · East of England · Chelmsford
Solar panel installers in Chelmsford — installed, repaired and serviced from our base on Coval Lane
L&R Renewables is based at 2 Coval Lane in Chelmsford. Our own engineers install solar PV and battery systems across the city and the villages around it, 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 Chelmsford
Installs, repairs and servicing from the office round the corner.
Our own engineers on every job, and a clear written quote before any work starts.
Solar panel installation in Chelmsford
New solar PV, with or without a battery, surveyed and fitted by our own MCS certified engineers.
Solar panel repair in Chelmsford
Generation that has dropped or stopped, traced to the cause and repaired, whoever fitted the system.
Inverter repair in Chelmsford
Fault lights, error messages and inverters that won’t stay connected. Same-week repair or replacement on SolarEdge, SMA, Fronius, Growatt, Solis, SolaX and other makes.
Servicing and battery storage in Chelmsford
An annual health check for systems from any installer, and a battery added to the panels you already have.
Dust, pollen or bird droppings building up on the glass? See solar panel cleaning. Installing a battery elsewhere in the county? See battery storage. Useful guides: why solar panels stop working, our solar panel maintenance checklist and how long solar inverters last.
Areas of Chelmsford we cover
Where we work in and around Chelmsford.
Our engineers work across CM1, CM2 and CM3 — the city, Springfield, Great Baddow and Galleywood, and the villages out to Writtle, Broomfield, Boreham, Danbury and South Woodham Ferrers — and across the rest of Essex from Braintree and Colchester to Brentwood, Basildon and Southend. If your village isn’t listed, tell us the postcode and we’ll confirm cover.
- Springfield
- Chelmer Village
- Beaulieu
- Great Baddow
- Galleywood
- Moulsham
- Broomfield
- Writtle
- Boreham
- Danbury
- Little Waltham
- Great Leighs
- South Woodham Ferrers
- Stock
- Ingatestone
- Witham
- Maldon
- Billericay
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Solar in Chelmsford
Chelmsford’s newest affordable homes all have solar on the roof.
In July 2026 Chelmsford City Council announced the completion of 24 affordable homes at Reservoir Close, delivered by registered provider Delta Housing with £1.44 million of investment from Homes England and the council. The scheme is split between 12 shared ownership properties and 12 affordable rental homes, including seven three-bedroom houses, four four-bedroom houses and one wheelchair-adapted property, built using a fabric-first timber-frame approach. Every home is equipped with solar panels, heat pumps and electric vehicle charging points, and each achieves an Energy Performance Certificate rating of Band B or higher.
We are based on Coval Lane, so Chelmsford is home ground for our engineers. If your own system was fitted years ago rather than months, a service will confirm it is still producing what it should, and if you want to keep more of that output for the evening, battery storage is a straightforward addition to most existing arrays.
Source: New housing scheme delivers 24 affordable homes in Chelmsford, City Life, Chelmsford City Council, 9 July 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 Chelmsford.
Chelmsford is home
Our office is at 2 Coval Lane in the city centre, so Chelmsford’s roofs are the ones we know best. The city’s solar sits on the 1930s semis of Moulsham and Broomfield, the 1970s and 80s estates at Chelmer Village and Springfield, and the new homes at Beaulieu and Channels, with clay tiles far more common than slate. Essex is one of the driest and sunniest parts of Britain, so a healthy system here should be generating well. What holds it back is usually dust and pollen on the glass, bird droppings, or an original feed-in tariff inverter reaching the end of its life.
Our own engineers
The engineer who comes to your home in Chelmsford 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 Great Baddow, Springfield, Writtle and Danbury?
Yes. Our engineers cover the whole of Chelmsford and the CM postcodes, and the rest of Essex. Call 0800 156 0191, or drop in — the office is at 2 Coval Lane, Chelmsford CM1 1TD, Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm.
My installer has gone out of business. Can you take over my system?
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 solar panel servicing.
How long do solar batteries last?
Most home batteries are lithium-based and designed for years of daily charging and discharging. The manufacturer states a cycle life for each model, and how hard the battery works day to day affects how long it lasts. When we quote a battery we tell you what to expect from that model, in writing. See battery storage.
Ready when you are
Tell us what you need in Chelmsford.
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.