Areas we cover · East of England · Essex
Solar panels in Essex — installed, repaired and serviced by one team
Our office is in Chelmsford, so Essex is our home county. From Colchester, Braintree and Harlow to Basildon, Brentwood, Southend-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea, our own engineers install solar PV and battery systems right across Essex, 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 Essex
Installs, repairs and servicing across the CM, SS and CO postcodes.
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 Essex
New solar PV, with or without a battery, surveyed and fitted by our own MCS certified engineers.
Solar panel repair in Essex
We find out why the system has stopped or dropped, and put it right, whoever fitted it.
Inverter repair in Essex
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 Essex
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.
Gulls and pigeons nesting under the panels on a Southend terrace? 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.
Towns in Essex we cover
Where we work across Essex.
Our engineers work across the CM postcodes, from Chelmsford (CM1 to CM3) out to Braintree, Witham, Maldon, Great Dunmow, Brentwood and Harlow (CM17 to CM20); the SS postcodes through Basildon, Pitsea and Laindon (SS13 to SS16), Wickford, Rayleigh, Canvey Island, Leigh-on-Sea, Westcliff and Southend-on-Sea; and the CO postcodes around Colchester, Halstead, Clacton-on-Sea, Frinton-on-Sea and Harwich, plus Epping, Loughton and Saffron Walden in the west. If your town or village isn’t listed, tell us the postcode and we’ll confirm cover.
- Chelmsford
- Colchester
- Basildon
- Southend-on-Sea
- Harlow
- Brentwood
- Billericay
- Wickford
- Rayleigh
- Leigh-on-Sea
- Canvey Island
- Braintree
- Witham
- Maldon
- Great Dunmow
- Saffron Walden
- Epping
- Loughton
- Halstead
- Clacton-on-Sea
- Frinton-on-Sea
- Harwich
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Solar in Essex
61 Southend council houses are getting solar and heat pumps.
In September 2026 Southend-on-Sea City Council set out how it is stepping up its supply of energy-efficient council homes. Construction is due to begin shortly on 16 affordable homes at Eagle Way, and work is under way on nine at Lundy Close, both featuring air source heat pumps and solar panels, while the council is delivering its first certified Passivhaus homes at Bradford Bury in Leigh-on-Sea and Denton Avenue in Westcliff-on-Sea. Existing homes are being upgraded too: 207 on the Balmoral Estate are set for ground source heat pumps, and a further 61 houses will get solar panels and air source heat pumps over the next year. Councillor Irene Ferguson said: “Everyone deserves a safe, warm and affordable place to call home.”
Council homes in Southend are heading where plenty of private homes in Essex already are: solar on the roof and a heat pump for the heating. If your panels went up in the feed-in tariff years, a service shows what they are really producing before a heat pump adds to the load, and battery storage lets you keep more of the daytime output for the evening.
Source: Southend-on-Sea City Council steps up delivery of affordable, energy-efficient homes, Southend-on-Sea City Council, 17 September 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 Essex.
We know Essex roofs
Essex packs a lot of different roofs into one county. Basildon and Harlow were built as post-war new towns, so there are whole estates of 1950s and 1960s terraces, some with flat roofs, where the mounting has to suit the roof rather than the brochure. Southend, Westcliff and Leigh-on-Sea are streets of Victorian and Edwardian terraces under slate and clay tile, while north Essex has timber-framed, weatherboarded and thatched cottages around Coggeshall, Thaxted and Saffron Walden, many of them listed. Essex is one of the driest counties in England, which suits solar, but salt air off the Tendring coast and the Blackwater and Crouch estuaries is hard on frames, fixings and isolators.
Our own engineers
The engineer who comes to your home in Essex 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 Basildon, Southend, Harlow and the Essex coast?
Yes. Our engineers cover the whole of Essex — Chelmsford, Braintree and Witham in the middle of the county, Basildon, Brentwood, Rayleigh and Southend-on-Sea in the south, Harlow, Epping and Saffron Walden in the west, and Colchester, Clacton-on-Sea, Frinton-on-Sea and Harwich in the north-east. Call 0800 156 0191 or tell us your postcode in the fault finder and we’ll confirm cover.
Will you repair a system in Essex 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 I have solar panels on a listed or thatched cottage in Essex?
Often, yes, but it depends on the building. A listed building needs listed building consent, and in a conservation area, such as the old centres of Coggeshall, Maldon or Saffron Walden, panels on a roof slope that faces the street can need planning permission. Panels can’t go on the thatch itself, so there an outbuilding or a ground-mounted array is usually the answer. We check before the survey and tell you where you stand. See solar panel installations.
Ready when you are
Solar not doing what it should in Essex? 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.