Co. Longford
Solar Panel Installation in Longford
Longford is a short run north of us on the N4 and N63, and we work across the county — a good deal of it agricultural, with a mix of rural dwellings, working farms and town-centre commercial property.
- 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 Longford
Longford is a predominantly rural county with a dispersed settlement pattern, and that shapes what good solar looks like here. Detached houses on their own sites, often with outbuildings and rarely with significant overshadowing from neighbouring buildings, give a lot of design freedom — orientation and tilt can usually be optimised rather than worked around.
Agriculture across the county is largely beef and drystock with dairy in parts, alongside forestry. Farm buildings — sheds, stores, machinery housing — provide large, simple, unshaded roof planes that are considerably easier and cheaper to work on than a complex domestic roof, and they sit on holdings where the electrical supply is already sized for meaningful load.
Longford town supports the surrounding county with retail, services and light industry, and the area around Ballymahon has seen substantial tourism and hospitality investment. Hospitality is a useful solar candidate because occupancy peaks in summer, when generation peaks — the seasonal curves line up rather than fight each other.
What we look for here
Longford-specific considerations
What a survey in Longford tends to focus on.
Rural sites give real design freedom
Without adjacent buildings casting shade, we can usually orient and tilt an array for best yield rather than accepting whatever the roof dictates. That is a genuine advantage over a dense urban site.
Farm buildings are efficient to install on
Large clear spans, straightforward mounting and short cable runs to the distribution board make shed-mounted arrays quicker to install than an equivalent array split across a complicated house roof.
Check your supply capacity before sizing
On rural holdings the existing connection and board capacity sometimes constrains what can be installed and exported. We check this early so the design is deliverable rather than theoretical.
Services
What we install in Longford
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 Longford
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 Longford
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.