We are a UK solar installer that works specifically with landlords. Not homeowners, not big commercial roofs, landlords: private buy-to-let investors, HMO operators, and limited-company portfolio holders trying to get rental properties to EPC band C before the 2030 deadline without throwing money at the wrong measures. That focus is deliberate. Solar for a rental property is a genuinely different problem from solar for an owner-occupied home, and most installers do not understand the difference. We built our business around it.
Why we only work with landlords
The standard solar sales pitch is "cut your energy bills". For most landlords that pitch is simply wrong, because in most lets the tenant pays the electricity, not the landlord. This is the split-incentive problem, you pay for the panels, the tenant gets the lower bill, and it is the single biggest reason landlords are nervous about solar. National installers almost never address it honestly. We start every conversation with the one question that actually decides the business case: who pays the electricity bill? In a standard single let where the tenant pays, we value the things that accrue to you, the EPC band uplift toward the mandatory band C by 1 October 2030, higher and more defensible rent, lower void periods, the Smart Export Guarantee income registered in your name, and the lift in resale and refinance value. In a bills-inclusive HMO where you pay the bill, the maths flips and we size for self-consumption and real cash returns. Sizing the system to who pays the bill, not to a homeowner's usage profile, is the difference between a sensible investment and an over-priced one.
Whole-house EPC planning, not just panels
We will tell you plainly that solar on its own does not move the new fabric-based EPC as far as insulation does. That is exactly why we never sell panels in isolation to a landlord. We model the least-cost route to band C for each property, the cheapest combination of fabric measures and solar that clears the band inside the £10,000-per-property cost cap, and we sequence the works so they count. For many D-rated properties that is a few hundred pounds of loft or cavity insulation plus a 3 to 4 kW array, with the solar doing the part that also generates income and survives future changes to how the EPC is scored. On harder stock with expensive solid walls we steer you away from costly wall work where solar plus loft insulation clears the band more cheaply.
Accreditations you can verify
Our installs are carried out by MCS-certified engineers, which is the certification you need for the property to be eligible for the Smart Export Guarantee and the Boiler Upgrade Scheme. We work to the relevant electrical standards (NICEIC or NAPIT), are members of the Renewable Energy Consumer Code (RECC) for consumer protection, and are TrustMark licensed under the government-endorsed quality scheme. Every certification can be checked against its issuing body, MCS at mcscertified.com, and we will give you the verification details for your own records. We are not tied to a single panel manufacturer, so we specify the right components for your roof and budget rather than whatever we are incentivised to sell.
Tax-aware, consent-aware, and honest about exemptions
Two things national installers routinely miss for landlords. First, tax: if your portfolio is held in a limited company, solar is qualifying plant and machinery and capital allowances can return a meaningful share of the cost, whereas personally-held lets get no such relief after the April 2025 abolition of the furnished holiday let regime. We flag the position; your accountant confirms it. Second, consent: leasehold flats and shared-roof properties need freeholder or managing-agent agreement, and solar is one of the improvements government explicitly cites as needing third-party consent. We handle that conversation and document the trail, so if consent is refused you have a clean evidence pack to register a five-year third-party-consent exemption on the PRS Exemptions Register. We treat exemptions as a genuine backstop for unimprovable stock, not as a way to dodge the deadline.
How we are different from the cowboys
We give you a free desk-based feasibility from your meter data and roof details before anyone visits, we quote a fixed price, and we will walk away from a project that does not stack up rather than talk you into it. For portfolio landlords we run programmed roll-outs that spread your capex across tax years and beat the installer bottleneck that will build as 2030 approaches and 2.5 million sub-C rental homes compete for the same installers. We would rather be the installer who told you the truth about the split incentive than the one who sold you a system that does not fit your tenancy. That is the whole reason we exist.