Areas we cover · Midlands · Leicester
Solar panels in Leicester — installed, repaired and serviced by one team
Across Leicester — Oadby, Wigston, Evington, Knighton, Braunstone, Glenfield and Birstall — our own engineers install solar PV and battery systems, and repair and service systems fitted by any installer. Repair is our core business, so there’s no pressure to rip out and replace.
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 Leicester
Installs, repairs and servicing across the LE postcodes.
Our own engineers on every job, and a clear written quote before any work starts.
Solar panel installation in Leicester
New solar PV, with or without a battery, surveyed and fitted by our own MCS certified engineers.
Solar panel repair in Leicester
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 Leicester
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 Leicester
An annual health check that catches faults early, and battery storage added to the panels you already have. See what a solar battery costs.
Panels dusty or covered in bird droppings? 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 Leicester we cover
Where we work in and around Leicester.
Our engineers work across the whole LE postcode area — LE1 to LE5 across the city, LE2 for Oadby and Knighton, LE18 for Wigston, LE3 and LE19 out to Braunstone, Glenfield and Enderby, LE4 and LE7 for Birstall, Thurmaston and Syston, and LE8 to LE17 through Market Harborough, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray and Hinckley. If your district isn’t listed, tell us the postcode and we’ll confirm cover.
- Oadby
- Wigston
- Knighton
- Clarendon Park
- Evington
- Stoneygate
- Humberstone
- Rushey Mead
- Belgrave
- Beaumont Leys
- Braunstone
- Glenfield
- Enderby
- Birstall
- Thurmaston
- Syston
- Loughborough
- Market Harborough
- Melton Mowbray
- Hinckley
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Solar in Leicester
Leicester’s newest council homes come with solar built in.
In August 2026 Leicester City Council welcomed the first tenants into eight fully adapted bungalows at its £11 million housing development on the site of the former Saffron Lane velodrome. The 1.4-hectare brownfield site will eventually provide 38 new council homes, a mix of houses and bungalows, built by Lovell on the council’s behalf with £700,000 from the Government’s Brownfield Land Release Fund. Every home has an energy-efficient design that includes heat pumps and solar panels, which the council says will help reduce household energy bills, and the remaining homes are being handed over in phases.
Solar fitted from day one is the norm on new homes now, but most of Leicester’s panels sit on older roofs across the city, where a decade or more of weather takes its toll. Cleaning restores output on a grimy array, and a service catches the faults you cannot see from the ground before they cost you a summer’s generation.
Source: Tenants move into new council bungalows in Leicester, Leicester City Council, 27 August 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 Leicester.
We know Leicester roofs
Leicester’s solar sits on the long Victorian terraces of Highfields, Belgrave and Clarendon Park, the Edwardian villas of Stoneygate, the 1930s semis of Evington, Knighton and Braunstone, and the post-war estates at Beaumont Leys and New Parks. Most of the city is low and gently sloping, so shading is mostly from trees rather than hills, and the roofs are simple to work on. Inland weather is kinder than the coast; what we find most is dust on the glass, moss on north-facing edges and inverters reaching the end of their life. Many of the systems we’re called to were fitted in the feed-in tariff years and are on their original inverter.
Our own engineers
The engineer who comes to your home in Leicester 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 Oadby, Wigston, Glenfield and Loughborough?
Yes. Our engineers cover the whole of Leicester and Leicestershire, from Loughborough and Melton Mowbray to Hinckley and Market Harborough. Call 0800 156 0191 or tell us your postcode in the fault finder and we’ll confirm cover.
My Leicester 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 inverter repair.
Do you install new solar panels in Leicester?
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 Leicester.
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.