Areas we cover · North East · Darlington
Solar panels in Darlington — installed, repaired and serviced by one team
From Cockerton, Mowden and Haughton to Hurworth, Middleton St George and Newton Aycliffe, our own engineers install solar PV and battery systems across Darlington, 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 Darlington
Installs, repairs and servicing across the DL 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 Darlington
New solar PV, with or without a battery, surveyed and fitted by our own MCS certified engineers.
Solar panel repair in Darlington
We find out why the system has stopped or dropped, and put it right, whoever fitted it.
Inverter repair in Darlington
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 Darlington
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 on a Darlington 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.
Areas of Darlington we cover
Where we work in and around Darlington.
Our engineers work across DL1 to DL3 in the town — Cockerton, Mowden, Haughton-le-Skerne, Harrowgate Hill, Whinfield, Eastbourne, Skerne Park and Faverdale — DL2 out to Hurworth, Middleton St George, Heighington, Sadberge and Piercebridge, and DL5 across Newton Aycliffe. We cover Richmond, Barnard Castle and the Teesdale villages too. If your district isn’t listed, tell us the postcode and we’ll confirm cover.
- Cockerton
- Mowden
- Haughton-le-Skerne
- Harrowgate Hill
- Whinfield
- Eastbourne
- Skerne Park
- Faverdale
- West Park
- Hurworth
- Middleton St George
- Heighington
- Sadberge
- Piercebridge
- Newton Aycliffe
- Shildon
- Richmond
- Barnard Castle
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Solar in Darlington
A 40MW solar farm is being built on Darlington’s doorstep.
In February 2025 Aura Power confirmed £33.1 million of finance from Rabobank for its Burtree Lane solar farm at Whessoe, on the northern edge of Darlington, with construction due to start in summer 2025 and the site expected to be energised in 2026. The 40MW project, consented by Darlington Borough Council in 2022, comes with a 46% biodiversity net gain and a £20,000-a-year community benefit fund for local projects. Aura Power director Ben Moore called it “a fantastic next step for us in developing our operational UK solar portfolio.”
A solar farm the size of Burtree Lane runs on the same principle as the twelve panels on a semi in Mowden or Hurworth: it only pays while it is generating. If your own system went up a decade ago and has never been looked at, a service will tell you where it stands, and if it has stopped, solar panel repair covers any installer’s system, including ones whose original fitter is long gone.
Source: Aura Power lands £33.1 million finance for 40MW solar project, Solar Power Portal, 14 February 2025.
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 Darlington.
We know Darlington roofs
Darlington is a railway town, and it shows on the roofs: long Victorian terraces around Bank Top and Albert Hill, the red-brick semis of Cockerton and Harrowgate Hill, and the newer estates of West Park, Faverdale and Middleton St George where panels are often part of the original build. It is one of the drier corners of the North East, in the lee of the Pennines, so a well-placed south-facing array does well here, but the same open country brings wind across the Tees plain that works on fixings and isolators. Many of the systems we see went in during the feed-in tariff years with a single string inverter that is now ageing.
Our own engineers
The engineer who comes to your home in Darlington 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 Hurworth, Newton Aycliffe, Richmond and Barnard Castle?
Yes. Our engineers cover Darlington, Newton Aycliffe and Shildon, the villages along the Tees from Piercebridge to Middleton St George, and Richmond, Barnard Castle and Teesdale. Call 0800 156 0191 or tell us your postcode in the fault finder and we’ll confirm cover.
Will you repair a system in Darlington 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.
Are you MCS certified installers?
Yes. L&R Renewables is MCS certified, NAPIT registered and TrustMark approved, and every install in Darlington is carried out by our own engineers. An engineer visits to survey the roof and consumer unit before you get a clear written quote. See solar panel installations.
Ready when you are
Solar not doing what it should in Darlington? 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.