We are a UK commercial solar business that has chosen to specialise in farms, and within farming we know dairy better than most. We design, supply, install and maintain solar PV systems on dairy parlours, cubicle housing, youngstock sheds and the wider farmstead, and we do it for working farmers who need the numbers to stack up before anything goes on a roof. We are not a general electrical contractor who fits the odd solar job between rewires. Agriculture is what we do.
Why we focus on dairy
Dairy is, quietly, one of the best solar opportunities in the country, and far too few installers understand why. A milking herd cools its bulk tank and runs its vacuum and water-heating plant around the clock, every day of the year. That continuous baseload means almost everything a roof generates in daylight gets used on the farm rather than exported cheaply, which is what drives a five-to-six-year payback. Sizing a dairy array well takes an understanding of how a parlour actually draws power across a milking, not a generic kilowatt-per-square-metre rule of thumb. We have built that understanding by working on dairies specifically, and it is why our self-consumption modelling holds up against real meter data.
How we work
We are independent of any single panel or inverter manufacturer, so we specify the kit that suits your roof and your load rather than whatever we happen to have a margin on. Every proposal starts with your half-hourly meter data, not a guess, and we model the system around your herd's real pattern of demand. We give you both the simple payback figure you can talk through at the kitchen table and the full lifetime financial model your accountant will want, including the Annual Investment Allowance position and any Smart Export Guarantee income. If your roof is asbestos cement, or your grid connection is constrained, or the numbers simply do not work, we tell you plainly. We would rather lose the job than put a farmer into a system that disappoints.
The farm-specific things we get right
Working on a dairy is not the same as working on a warehouse. We schedule around your calving and your busy seasons, and we keep the only real outage, the final grid connection, to a few hours in a quiet period. We observe the biosecurity and animal-welfare protocols a livestock farm requires during the install. We handle the tenant-farmer conversations where you rent your buildings, including the landlord consent and the lease addendum that institutional rural landlords expect. And we assess asbestos roofing as standard, because so many older farm buildings carry it, building a combined re-roof and PV case where that is the right answer.
Our accreditations
We hold the certifications a credible UK commercial solar installer should hold, and every one can be checked against the issuing body. We carry MCS commercial certification, which is what makes your system eligible for the Smart Export Guarantee, alongside NICEIC approved contractor status, RECC membership and a TrustMark licence. Our installs come with a 10-year insurance-backed workmanship warranty through IWA, so the cover stands even if a contractor ceases trading. We work to ISO quality, environmental and health-and-safety standards, and we are a member of Solar Energy UK. We are also alert to the farm assurance schemes your milk buyer cares about, from Red Tractor to processor-specific sustainability programmes, and we provide the generation evidence those audits increasingly require.
Why farmers choose a specialist
The solar industry has its share of operators who oversize systems, overpromise payback and disappear when something needs fixing. A dairy is a demanding environment for any equipment, and the wrong install can sit underperforming on a roof for years. We have built our reputation on being straight with farmers: realistic figures, the right system size, honest advice about when not to proceed, and a team you can still reach after commissioning. The reviews and the repeat business that follow from that matter more to us than any single sale.