Areas we cover · North East · Sunderland
Solar panels in Sunderland — installed, repaired and serviced by one team
From Roker and Fulwell to Ryhope, Silksworth and Washington, our own engineers install solar PV and battery systems across Sunderland, 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 Sunderland
Installs, repairs and servicing across Wearside.
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 Sunderland
New solar PV, with or without a battery, surveyed and fitted by our own MCS certified engineers.
Solar panel repair in Sunderland
We find out why the system has stopped or dropped, and put it right, whoever fitted it.
Inverter repair in Sunderland
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 Sunderland
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 making a mess of the array on a Roker or Seaburn roof? 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 Sunderland we cover
Where we work in and around Sunderland.
Our engineers work across SR1 to SR6 in the city, from the seafront at Roker and Seaburn through Fulwell, Southwick and Hendon to Ashbrooke, Barnes, Grangetown, Ryhope and Silksworth, out to Pennywell, Pallion, Hylton Castle and Castletown, and across NE37 and NE38 in Washington. We cover Houghton-le-Spring, Hetton-le-Hole, Seaham and Whitburn too. If your district isn’t listed, tell us the postcode and we’ll confirm cover.
- Roker
- Seaburn
- Fulwell
- Southwick
- Hendon
- Ashbrooke
- Barnes
- Grangetown
- Ryhope
- Silksworth
- Doxford Park
- Pennywell
- Pallion
- Hylton Castle
- Castletown
- Washington
- Houghton-le-Spring
- Hetton-le-Hole
- Seaham
- Whitburn
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Solar in Sunderland
Sunderland’s schools are saving with the Mayor’s solar panels.
In June 2026 the North East Combined Authority reported that 23 schools across Sunderland and Northumberland have now been fitted with solar panels through the Mayor’s Renewables Fund, backed by £700,000 from Great British Energy. Together the schools are expected to save more than £100,000 a year on electricity and cut nearly 85 tonnes of carbon annually, and Hudson Road Primary in Hendon was one of the first to switch on. Mayor Kim McGuinness said it was “hard to argue against green energy when it means lower bills for schools which frees up cash to spend on improving teaching.”
A school roof in Hendon and a terrace roof in Fulwell face the same North Sea weather, and the same slow decline in output if nobody checks the system. If yours went up in the feed-in tariff years, a service will tell you what it is really generating, and if the inverter has given up, inverter repair gets it earning again without touching the panels.
Source: Schools save £100,000 on electricity bills with Mayor’s solar panels, North East Combined Authority, 12 June 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 Sunderland.
We know Wearside roofs
Sunderland has a housing type all of its own: the single-storey Sunderland cottages of Millfield, Pallion and Hendon, with long shallow roofs that take a neat array but need the right fixings for a low pitch. Around them sit Victorian terraces, the 1930s semis of Fulwell and Barnes, and the 1960s and 70s estates of Washington new town. The coast is never far away: salt air and wind work on isolators and connectors, and gulls make a mess of arrays from Seaburn to Ryhope. 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 Sunderland 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 Roker, Washington, Houghton-le-Spring and Seaham?
Yes. Our engineers cover the whole of Sunderland and Washington, the coast from Whitburn down to Seaham, and Houghton-le-Spring and Hetton-le-Hole. Call 0800 156 0191 or tell us your postcode in the fault finder and we’ll confirm cover.
Will you repair a system in Sunderland 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 Sunderland 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 Sunderland? 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.