Areas we cover · East of England · Colchester
Solar panels in Colchester — installed, repaired and serviced by one team
Across Colchester and north Essex — Lexden, Highwoods, Stanway, Wivenhoe, Clacton, Braintree and Witham — 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.
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What we do in Colchester
Installs, repairs and servicing across the CO postcodes.
The same engineers and the same clear written quote, whether it’s a new system or a fifteen-year-old one.
Solar panel installation in Colchester
New solar PV, with or without a battery, surveyed and fitted by our own MCS certified engineers.
Solar panel repair in Colchester
A system that has stopped generating, or is generating less than it used to, whoever fitted it. We trace the fault and put it right.
Inverter repair in Colchester
A red light, an error code or a blank screen. Same-week repair or replacement on SolarEdge, SMA, Fronius, Growatt, Solis, SolaX and other makes.
Servicing and battery storage in Colchester
An annual health check that catches faults early, and battery storage added to the panels you already have. See what a solar battery costs.
Gulls on the array, or dust and pollen on the glass? 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 Colchester we cover
Where we work in and around Colchester.
Our engineers work across the whole CO postcode area — CO1 to CO4 across the city from Lexden and Prettygate to Highwoods, Greenstead and Stanway, CO5 to CO7 out to Tiptree, West Mersea, Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea, CO9 to CO11 for Halstead, Sudbury and Manningtree, and CO12 to CO16 along the coast through Harwich, Frinton and Clacton — plus Braintree (CM7) and Witham (CM8). If your district isn’t listed, tell us the postcode and we’ll confirm cover.
- Lexden
- Prettygate
- Shrub End
- Stanway
- Highwoods
- Mile End
- Greenstead
- Old Heath
- Rowhedge
- Wivenhoe
- West Mersea
- Tiptree
- Marks Tey
- Halstead
- Coggeshall
- Braintree
- Witham
- Manningtree
- Brightlingsea
- Clacton-on-Sea
- Frinton-on-Sea
- Harwich
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Solar in Colchester
Colchester’s university campus now runs partly on its own solar.
In February 2026 the University of Essex reported that more than 5,000 solar panels on rooftops and buildings at its Colchester Campus now generate around 8 per cent of the electricity the campus uses each year, peaking at 39 per cent in July 2025. The university’s latest sustainability report puts its annual carbon emissions down 58.3 per cent since 2013 and gas use down 39 per cent since 2019, with a net zero target of 2035. Its director of sustainability said further PV installations, lighting and heating upgrades are being explored, and that many of the recent arrays around Wivenhoe Park are visible from the ground.
A 39 per cent July and an 8 per cent year is an honest picture of how solar behaves in north Essex: strong summers carrying the rest. A Colchester homeowner gets the most out of those summers with panels that are clean and a system that is checked; cleaning and a service cover both, and we are only half an hour away in Chelmsford.
Source: Solar energy and sustainable gardening boosting Essex’s carbon footprint, University of Essex, 16 February 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 Colchester.
We know Colchester roofs
Colchester is under an hour from our Chelmsford office, so its roofs are among the ones we know best. The housing runs from the Victorian and Edwardian terraces of the town centre and New Town, through the 1930s semis of Lexden and Prettygate and the post-war estates at Greenstead and Monkwick, to the big new developments at Stanway, Highwoods and the garrison. 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, gulls on the coast, or an original feed-in tariff inverter reaching the end of its life.
Our own engineers
The engineer who comes to your home in Colchester 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 Stanway, Wivenhoe, Clacton and Braintree?
Yes. Our engineers cover the whole of Colchester and north Essex, from the Tendring coast to Braintree, Halstead and Witham. Call 0800 156 0191, or drop in — the office is at 2 Coval Lane, Chelmsford, Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm.
My Colchester installer has stopped trading. Can you still look after 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.
Do you install new solar panels in Colchester?
Yes. We install solar PV and battery systems with our own MCS certified engineers. An engineer visits to survey the roof, the loft and the consumer unit, then you get a clear written quote. See solar panel installations.
Ready when you are
Tell us what you need in Colchester.
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.