Areas we cover · South West · Torbay
Solar panels in Torbay — installed, repaired and serviced by one team
Across Torbay — Torquay, Babbacombe and St Marychurch, Paignton, Preston and Goodrington, Brixham and Churston — and out to Newton Abbot, Teignmouth and Totnes, 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.
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England, Wales & southern Scotland
What we do in Torbay
Solar panel installers across Torquay, Paignton and Brixham’s TQ 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 Torbay
New solar PV, surveyed and fitted by our own MCS certified engineers, with a battery if you want one.
Solar panel repair in Torbay
We find out why the system has stopped or dropped, and put it right, whoever fitted it.
Inverter repair in Torbay
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 Torbay
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 nesting under the panels on a Torquay or Brixham 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.
Towns in Torbay we cover
Where we work in and around Torbay.
Our engineers work across TQ1 — Torquay’s Babbacombe, St Marychurch, Ellacombe and Wellswood — TQ2 through Chelston, Cockington, Shiphay and Hele, TQ3 for Paignton’s Preston and Marldon, TQ4 for Goodrington, Broadsands and Roundham, and TQ5 for Brixham, Furzeham and Churston. Beyond the bay we cover Newton Abbot (TQ12), Teignmouth (TQ14) and Totnes (TQ9), and the rest of Devon, with Exeter and Plymouth on their own pages. If your street isn’t listed, tell us the postcode and we’ll confirm cover.
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Solar in Torbay
Torbay Council is fitting solar panels on schools and council buildings across the bay.
In September 2026 Torbay Council said a £730,000 programme to improve energy efficiency at council-owned buildings, including schools, had started. The first phase brings rooftop solar panels, insulation and LED lighting to eight sites, among them Sherwell Valley, Watcombe and White Rock primary schools, Mayfield School, Brixham Harbour Offices and the Torbay Business Centre in Torquay, with one site also getting air source heat pumps. Work at the first schools began in August 2026, the first phase is due to finish by March 2027, and the council estimates the programme will save more than 7,000 tonnes of carbon over the life of the technology. Deputy Leader Councillor Chris Lewis said: “We will be generating our own clean energy, cutting carbon emissions, improving our buildings and saving money all at once.”
Plenty of homes in Torquay, Paignton and Brixham went solar in the feed-in tariff years, long before schemes like this. If yours is one of them, a service shows whether it is still producing what it should, and inverter repair is usually the fix when an older array has gone quiet.
Source: Major programme of work starts to cut carbon emissions and energy bills with solar panels, Torbay Council, 24 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 Torbay.
We know Torbay roofs
Torbay’s roofs follow its hills. Torquay is built over seven of them, so Victorian villas, Regency terraces and former hotels in Wellswood, Chelston and Babbacombe sit on steep streets where access and scaffolding need planning, and some of those streets are in conservation areas. Paignton is flatter, with Victorian terraces around the centre, inter-war and post-war semis in Preston, Goodrington and Roselands, and newer estates towards Collaton St Mary. Brixham’s fishing-port cottages climb the hill above the harbour, while Shiphay and Barton have post-war estates with simpler roofs. Gulls and salt air are hard on frames, clamps and connectors, and the network operator here is National Grid Electricity Distribution, which we check before we quote.
Our own engineers
The engineer who comes to your home in Torbay 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 Torquay, Paignton, Brixham and Newton Abbot?
Yes. Our engineers cover the whole of Torbay — Torquay, Babbacombe and St Marychurch, Paignton, Preston and Goodrington, Brixham and Churston — and out to Newton Abbot, Teignmouth and Totnes, plus the rest of Devon. Call 0800 156 0191 or tell us your postcode in the fault finder and we’ll confirm cover.
Will you repair a system in Torbay 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 villa in one of Torbay’s conservation areas?
Often, yes, but it depends on the roof and whether the building is listed. Torbay has conservation areas in places such as Cockington, Wellswood and Brixham, where panels on a roof slope that faces the street can need planning permission, and a listed building needs listed building consent. We check this before the survey and tell you where you stand, and every solar panel install is by our own MCS certified engineers. See solar panel installations.
Ready when you are
Solar not doing what it should in Torbay? 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.