We are a UK commercial solar specialist working with pubs, restaurants and the wider hospitality and leisure sector. We design, supply and install rooftop and car-park solar for licensed premises across England and Wales, from independent freehouses and gastropubs to managed pub estates and brewery-tied houses. The business is built on a simple idea: a pub is an unusually good fit for solar because it uses most of its electricity during daylight hours, and a specialist who understands how a pub actually runs will get you a better system than a general electrical contractor who does the occasional roof.
Why we focus on pubs and hospitality
Most solar installers chase domestic work or treat every commercial roof the same. We do not. A pub has a load pattern of its own: cellar cooling running around the clock, kitchen extraction and refrigeration through service, and lighting from open to close. That daytime-heavy demand is exactly when panels generate, which is why pubs self-consume a high share of their solar and pay back faster than sectors that export most of their power. Understanding that pattern, and the practical realities of cellars, listed buildings, beer gardens, tied tenancies and trading hours you cannot interrupt, is what we bring that a generalist does not. We work the way the trade works, around your service times and your busy days.
How we work
We are independent of any panel or inverter manufacturer, so we specify the hardware that suits your roof and your budget rather than whatever we are tied to sell. Every proposal starts with your real half-hourly meter data, not a guess from your roof size, because sizing to your actual daytime load is what makes the economics work. We model the generation, the self-consumption, and the payback before we ask you to commit to anything, and we quote a fixed price for the whole job. If a site does not suit solar, whether the roof is wrong, the supply is constrained or the listing makes it impractical, we tell you straight rather than sell you a system that will disappoint. We would rather walk away from a poor project than damage our reputation on one.
Listed buildings and tied houses
Pubs come with complications other commercial buildings do not. Many are listed or sit in conservation areas, and a large share are tied or leased through pub companies and breweries. We handle both. For heritage premises we engage the conservation officer early and use discreet, low-profile designs on roof slopes out of public view, or carports and outbuildings that keep the protected frontage untouched. For tied and leased houses we provide the wayleave and landlord-consent templates and run that conversation for you, which is often easier than operators expect now that the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard is pushing landlords toward EPC improvements on their estates.
Our accreditations and warranty
We hold the certifications a commercial solar installer should hold, and every one can be checked against the issuing body. We are MCS Certified for commercial installs, which is what makes your system eligible for the Smart Export Guarantee, and we are NICEIC-registered for the electrical work, RECC members and TrustMark licensed. We work to ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 for quality, environment and health and safety, the standards larger hospitality groups and franchisors increasingly require from their suppliers. Our workmanship is covered by a 10-year insurance-backed warranty through the IWA, which protects you even in the unlikely event the installer is no longer trading, and the panels themselves carry the manufacturer's standard 25-year performance warranty.
Honest about what we can prove
You will notice we do not plaster this site with invented testimonials or star ratings, because made-up reviews are exactly the cowboy behaviour we set ourselves against. When we share customer feedback it will be real and attributable. What we will commit to is straightforward: a fixed-price proposal you can trust, hardware chosen for your site rather than our margin, a build scheduled around your trade, and a clear answer about whether solar makes sense for your pub before you spend a penny. If you want to see the numbers for your own premises, our cost and grants and funding pages set out the figures, and you can request a quote whenever you are ready.