Tell us what's happening with your system. We'll confirm whether it needs a remote diagnostic or an on-site visit, and give you a clear price before any work starts. Eastern Greater Manchester is in our extended coverage area — two to three working days for urgent faults.
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Amazing! I was having trouble with a flat GivEnergy battery and solar panels not working. I contacted through WhatsApp and we managed to get it all sorted within a couple of days! Super fast service. I can’t thank you enough for your help when my installer didn’t want to know and GivEnergy has gone in to administration! I know where to go if anything happens again!
Great communication from start to finish No question unanswered and very knowledgeable
Ron has come to our rescue once again! After sorting out our GivEnergy battery issue, he was on hand to help us find a solution to data logging issues caused during install of an additional inverter. He's helpful, patient and extremely knowledgeable. Utterly brilliant service. Thank you again!
Absolutely wonderful. Would recommend without hesitation. I had an issue I was thinking would never be fixed and they fixed it. Help, advice and support every step of the way. I can't recommend highly enough. Thank you so much ⭐
A really big thank you to Ron and his team, he has vast amounts of knowledge and got my system back up and running, also good to get on with. I was absolutely lost as to know what to do, no help from installer and somehow came across Ron and am I glad I did. I would definitely definitely recommend him to anyone who has faults with there solar system, any make I would say. Thanks again Ron a pleasure meeting you.
Great service in supplying and fitting an additional GivEnergy battery. Went the extra mile in managing to fit the battery in to a difficult space.
The eastern boroughs of Greater Manchester — Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside, and parts of Stockport — saw some of the highest uptake of government-funded solar installations in England. ECO, CERT, and Green Deal schemes targeted these areas heavily between 2011 and 2016. The result is thousands of ageing systems on terraced streets and council estates, many installed by companies that have since closed. The hardware is reaching the age where faults become common, and the original installers are gone.
Oldham, Rochdale, and Ashton-under-Lyne have dense terraced streets carrying compact 2–3kW systems installed under FiT and government incentive schemes. Narrow south-facing roofs, tight spacing between properties, and chimney shading are common. These systems typically run Solis or Fronius string inverters with 8–12 standard polycrystalline panels. Simple systems, but the inverters are now 10–14 years old and approaching end of life.
Eastern Manchester boroughs were targeted extensively by ECO and Green Deal programmes. Installers like Mark Group and A Shade Greener fitted thousands of systems across social housing and low-income households. Many homeowners received little documentation, no monitoring setup, and minimal explanation of how their system works. When the installer disappears, these customers are the most vulnerable — they often don't know what they have or who to call.
The eastern edge of Manchester climbs into the Pennines — Saddleworth, Mossley, Stalybridge, Glossop. Systems here face higher wind loading, more driven rain, and greater temperature swings than lowland installs. DC isolators, junction boxes, and roof-level MC4 connectors degrade faster in these conditions. The panels themselves handle it fine, but the electrical components need checking more regularly.
A growing number of Manchester homeowners with existing FiT-era systems are adding battery storage — typically GivEnergy or Sunsynk. Retrofitting a battery onto an older system that was never designed for one creates integration challenges: CT clamp placement, hybrid inverter compatibility, charge scheduling, and tariff optimisation all need to be configured correctly. We see a lot of these where the battery has been fitted but never properly set up.
Manchester sits at the western edge of our service area. The city's mix of terraced streets, semi-detached suburbs, and exposed Pennine-fringe locations creates a wide range of system types and fault patterns. We remote-diagnose before every visit. No call-out fees. All pricing confirmed in writing.
Fault-finding and on-site repair — inverter failures, DC isolator trips (common on Pennine-exposed systems), generation drops, battery faults. From £295.
Fault diagnosis →Complete replacement — old unit removed, new inverter installed, configured, and tested. We stock common models for faster turnaround. From £995.
Inverter replacement →Emergency power supply installation — keep essentials running during outages using your existing battery. Particularly popular in areas with less stable grid supply. From quoted price.
EPS installation →Preventative annual service — generation analysis, inverter diagnostics, DC isolator and wiring check, firmware updates. Written report posted within 48 hours. From £195.
Annual maintenance →Moved into a Greater Manchester property with panels? We visit, identify the full system, set up monitoring, check tariff and warranty status, and hand you a written report. From £295.
On-site walk-through →Remote fault-finding — we access your monitoring portal, analyse generation and fault data, and check firmware. Written report usually within 24 hours. Free — £125 only if we fix it remotely.
Remote diagnostic →Eastern Greater Manchester's solar install base is dominated by government-scheme systems from 2011–2016. The hardware is ageing, the installers are gone, and the exposed Pennine fringe adds weather-related complications. These are the faults we see most.
The bulk of solar systems across Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside, and eastern Stockport were installed under ECO and Green Deal between 2011 and 2015. They typically run Fronius IG, Solis, or Growatt string inverters — all now past the 10-year mark. Symptoms: blank display, no generation, intermittent fault codes, tripping the consumer unit. The panels are almost always fine. Replacement with a modern hybrid inverter restores full output and adds battery-ready capability. System not producing →
DC isolators are the weakest point in any solar installation, and they fail faster in exposed locations. Systems in Saddleworth, Mossley, Stalybridge, and the higher parts of Tameside see accelerated isolator degradation from driven rain and temperature cycling. A failed DC isolator can trip the entire system or — in worst cases — present a fire risk. We replace these as a matter of course during maintenance visits and carry stock of the most common types. Inverter will not power up →
Mark Group, A Shade Greener, and Solarplicity all installed heavily across eastern Manchester — and all three are gone. Homeowners are left with systems they don't fully understand, locked monitoring accounts, missing MCS certificates, and no warranty route. The systems are usually still generating — they just have no one managing them. We handle full recovery: monitoring transfer (not GivEnergy), documentation rebuild, warranty verification, and ongoing maintenance. Installer gone bust guide →
Homeowners adding GivEnergy or Sunsynk batteries to existing FiT-era systems across Manchester often find the battery isn't saving them money. The system charges during the day but imports from the grid during peak evening hours instead of discharging the battery. The cause is almost always configuration: CT clamp direction, eco mode settings, charge schedule timing, or a firmware update that has reset values. We diagnose and fix this remotely in most cases. GivEnergy support →
Eastern Greater Manchester was saturated by government-scheme installers during the FiT era. Several of the largest — Mark Group, A Shade Greener, Solarplicity — have all since closed. If your installer has gone into liquidation or stopped trading, we handle the full recovery — monitoring transfer (not GivEnergy), documentation, warranty claims, fault diagnosis, and ongoing maintenance.
Administration 2015. Government scheme installs across eastern Manchester. Fronius inverters now 10+ years old and failing.
Mark Group guide →Dissolved November 2023. Combined energy supplier and solar installer. Active across Greater Manchester — locked monitoring and missing documentation.
Solarplicity guide →Free solar panel scheme (rent-a-roof model). Installed thousands across the North of England including eastern Manchester. Systems now ageing with no support route.
Installer gone bust guide →Installer not listed? The recovery process is the same regardless of who installed your system. Full installer gone bust guide or book a call.
Eastern Manchester's install base skews heavily toward Fronius and Solis on older government-scheme systems, with GivEnergy and Sunsynk growing on battery retrofits. Each brand has different diagnostic methods, firmware management, and warranty processes — we know them all.
We focus on the eastern boroughs of Greater Manchester — the areas closest to our Yorkshire base via the M62. All at the same pricing as our core Yorkshire coverage.
Not listed? If you're in the eastern Greater Manchester area, we may still cover you. Get in touch and we'll confirm availability. We also cover Huddersfield and Leeds on the Yorkshire side of the Pennines.
Eastern Manchester has thousands of homes with solar panels installed under government schemes during 2011–2016. When these properties change hands, the new owner typically receives no documentation, no monitoring access, and no explanation of the FiT payments, inverter brand, or warranty status. We visit, identify every component, check performance, set up monitoring in your name, and hand over a written report covering everything.
Describe the fault — what you're seeing (or not seeing), the brand if you know it, when it started. We'll come back with a clear plan and price, usually same day. Eastern Manchester is within our extended coverage — same pricing, slightly longer lead time.
Due to unprecedented demand we’re currently only carrying out on-site work in Yorkshire, and replies are taking up to 7 days. Remote diagnostics continue for the whole UK as normal.
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