Areas we cover · Midlands · Derby
Solar panels in Derby — installed, repaired and serviced by one team
In Derby and across Derbyshire — Allestree, Mickleover, Littleover and Chaddesden, out to Belper, Ripley, Ilkeston, Matlock, Swadlincote and Chesterfield — 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 Derby
Installs, repairs and servicing across Derby and Derbyshire.
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 Derby
New solar PV, with or without a battery, surveyed and fitted by our own MCS certified engineers, on a house, a farm or an outbuilding.
Solar panel repair in Derby
We find out why the system has stopped or dropped, and put it right, whoever fitted it.
Inverter repair in Derby
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 Derby
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.
Pigeons under the panels in Normanton, or moss creeping over them up in the Peak? 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 Derby we cover
Where we work in and around Derby.
Our engineers work across the city’s DE1, DE3 and DE21 to DE24 postcodes — Allestree, Darley Abbey, Mickleover, Littleover, Normanton, Chaddesden, Oakwood, Spondon, Alvaston, Chellaston and Sinfin — and out across Derbyshire: Belper and Duffield in DE56, Ripley and Heanor in DE5 and DE75, Ilkeston in DE7, Matlock and Wirksworth in DE4, Ashbourne in DE6, Swadlincote in DE11, Chesterfield, Staveley and Dronfield across S40 to S43 and S18, and Buxton and Glossop in the High Peak. If your village isn’t listed, tell us the postcode and we’ll confirm cover.
- Allestree
- Darley Abbey
- Mickleover
- Littleover
- Normanton
- Chaddesden
- Oakwood
- Spondon
- Alvaston
- Chellaston
- Sinfin
- Belper
- Duffield
- Ripley
- Heanor
- Ilkeston
- Matlock
- Wirksworth
- Ashbourne
- Swadlincote
- Chesterfield
- Buxton
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Solar in Derby
Derby’s hospital trust is turning its roofs over to solar.
In May 2026 University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust said it had installed solar panels at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital in Derby, Queen’s Hospital Burton, and community hospitals in Tamworth and Lichfield. More than 5,200 square metres of panels are expected to produce over one million kWh a year, enough for around 250–300 homes, and save more than 259 tonnes of carbon annually. The Burton and Florence Nightingale schemes were backed by £1.8m of government funding, and the rollout builds on solar in Royal Derby Hospital’s new multi-storey car park. The Trust’s Director of Estates and Facilities, Andrew Selby, said: “By making the most of our roof space, we are generating clean energy where we use it, cutting carbon and being more efficient with our resources.”
Using the roof space you already have makes just as much sense on a semi in Mickleover or a terrace in Normanton. If your panels went up in the feed-in tariff years, a service shows whether they are still earning their keep, and adding battery storage lets you use more of that daytime generation in the evening.
Source: Hospitals across Derby and Burton boost solar power to support a greener NHS, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, 15 May 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 Derby.
We know Derbyshire roofs
Derby and Derbyshire give an installer very different roofs within a short drive. In the city there are red-brick Victorian terraces around Normanton, Pear Tree and the Arboretum, inter-war and post-war semis in Allestree, Littleover and Chaddesden, and newer estates at Oakwood. North of the city, stone mill workers’ houses in Belper and the Derwent Valley, and stone cottages around Matlock and Wirksworth, often sit in conservation areas that need checking first. The old colliery towns — Ripley, Heanor, Ilkeston, Staveley — are rows of terraces with small roofs, and up in the Peak the wind, rain and snow test fixings and isolators and grow moss on panels. Many systems here went in during the feed-in tariff years and are now ageing.
Our own engineers
The engineer who comes to your home in Derby 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 Chesterfield, Belper, Ilkeston and Matlock?
Yes. Our engineers cover Derby and the whole of Derbyshire — Belper, Ripley, Heanor and Ilkeston to the north and east of the city, Swadlincote and Melbourne to the south, Matlock, Wirksworth and Ashbourne in the Dales, Chesterfield, Staveley and Dronfield in the north-east, and Buxton and Glossop in the High Peak. Call 0800 156 0191 or tell us your postcode in the fault finder and we’ll confirm cover.
Will you repair a system in Derby 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 in Belper or elsewhere in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site?
Often, yes, but it depends on the house and exactly where it sits. In the Belper and Milford conservation area, Amber Valley Borough Council applies an Article 4 direction to every dwelling, which removes most permitted development rights, and a listed mill house needs listed building consent. Panels on a roof slope that faces the street can need planning permission in other conservation areas too. We check all of this before the survey and tell you where you stand. See solar panel installations.
Ready when you are
Solar not doing what it should in Derby? 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.