Co. Westmeath
Solar Panel Installation in Athlone
Athlone is not a service area for us — it is where we are. Our office and stores are in Blyry Business & Commercial Park, which means survey visits, installation crews and aftercare calls all start a few minutes from your door.
- Free site survey
- SEAI grant guided
- Local aftercare
Accredited & registeredIn business 13 years
SEAI Registered
Safe Electric
Solar Ireland Member- Athlone Chamber Member
- Based in AthloneTrading since 2013
Local context
Solar in Athlone
Athlone straddles the Shannon and the Westmeath–Roscommon boundary, and its building stock reflects that spread. Period terraces and townhouses near the centre and around the castle sit alongside decades of estate housing out towards Monksland, Cornamaddy and Retreat, and newer low-density builds further out again. Those are three very different roofs, and they call for three different approaches to mounting, cable routing and inverter siting.
The town also carries a substantial commercial and light-industrial base — the business parks along the Blyry and Monksland corridors, the medtech and pharma employers around the town, and the campus activity associated with TUS. Large, uncluttered, relatively modern roofs on single-storey industrial units are close to ideal for commercial solar, and the daytime load profile of a manufacturing or logistics operation lines up well with when a system actually generates.
Because the Shannon splits the town, we work either side of the river routinely — Westmeath side or Roscommon side, it changes nothing about how a job is run.
What we look for here
Athlone-specific considerations
What a survey in Athlone tends to focus on.
Older town-centre roofs need a proper structural look
Slate roofs on period properties near the centre are perfectly viable for solar, but they need care — condition of battens and rafters, existing slate condition and how flashings are dressed all matter more than on a modern concrete-tile roof. We assess this at survey rather than assuming it.
Industrial roofs on the business parks are strong candidates
Trapezoidal metal roofs on the Blyry and Monksland units generally take a non-penetrative or clamped mounting system, install quickly and carry large arrays. If your operation runs machinery through the working day, most of what you generate is consumed on site rather than exported.
Shading from mature trees on the older estates
Several of the established residential areas around the town have significant mature planting. Shade does not rule out solar, but it changes the design — panel-level optimisation or a different string layout can recover most of the loss where a simple layout would not.
Services
What we install in Athlone
The same range we offer everywhere — designed around the building in front of us rather than a standard package.
Domestic Solar PV
Solar PV designed around how your household actually uses electricity — with the SEAI grant guided every step.
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Commercial Solar PV
Turn a large roof into a long-term hedge against electricity prices, with SEAI grant support of up to €162,600.
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Farm Solar
Sheds, parlours and pumps run on daytime power — exactly when solar produces. Supported by TAMS 3.
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Battery Storage
Keep the electricity you generate instead of exporting it, and hold power in reserve for outages.
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EV Charging
Charge from your own roof or off-peak night rates, with a charger properly integrated into your system.
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Solar PPA
Zero upfront cost. We fund, install, own and maintain the system — you buy the power it produces.
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Solar Maintenance & Support
Inspections, monitoring and repairs that keep an array earning across its warranted life.
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Solar Panel Cleaning
Professional panel cleaning for the soiling rain alone does not shift — bird droppings, moss, pollen and dust.
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AI Performance Analysis
Your monitoring data, actually read. Automated analysis that flags underperformance and unusual patterns for investigation.
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Simple process
Getting started in Athlone
Four steps from a first phone call to a system generating on your roof.
Talk to us
Call us or send an enquiry. We ask about your building, your bills and what you want solar to do — before anyone talks about panels.
Free site survey
An engineer visits, assesses your roof, shading and electrical setup, and designs a system sized to your actual consumption.
Grant & installation
We guide you through the grant application and handle the installer and grid-notification paperwork, then install and commission the system with as little disruption as possible.
Generate & monitor
Your system goes live, you can see what it produces from your phone, and we stay available for servicing and support.
Grants
Grant support you can claim
We guide the application and handle the installer paperwork as part of the job. Below is what the three main schemes are worth — and the conditions that actually decide whether you qualify.
Homeowners
€1,800maximum grant
SEAI Solar PV Grant
Paid at €700 per kWp for the first 2 kWp, then €200 per additional kWp up to 4 kWp.
Home must have been built and occupied before 1 January 2021.
Businesses & community
€162,600maximum grant
SEAI Non-Domestic Microgen Scheme
Supports non-domestic systems up to 1000 kWp. Rates are tiered — the per-kWp rate steps down as the system gets larger.
Open to businesses, farms, schools, public bodies and non-profits.
Farms
€54,000maximum grant
Solar Capital Investment Scheme (SCIS) under TAMS 3
Grant-aided at 60% against a ring-fenced investment ceiling of €90,000. Systems supported up to 62 kWp.
Administered by the Department of Agriculture, not SEAI.
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Book a free survey in Athlone
Tell us about the property and we will arrange a visit. No charge, no obligation, and a straight answer on whether solar is worth doing.