Alectrona
Engineer-led solar & battery storage · YorkshireA 25-year asset deserves more than a sales call. We design, install and stand behind solar PV, retrofit battery storage and commercial systems, with the engineering set out for you to see.
Engineer-designed.
Engineer-delivered.
Engineer-supported.
Yearonyear.
We don't pressure-sell.
We don't take deposits.
We publish prices openly.
Alectrona is the residential and commercial PV arm of RVTC LTD, built and run by an engineer rather than a sales operation. Its sister arm, Solar Tech Support, is the UK's busiest independent solar diagnostics service, so every Alectrona install is informed by what actually fails in the field.
Prices stay low because the operation is lean: in-house warehousing and logistics, no commissioned sales reps, and trade discounts secured by buying in volume. The saving goes straight to the customer. Every quote is fully turnkey, one fixed and itemised price inclusive of VAT, scaffolding, DNO and Building Control.
No pressure-selling, no deposits, and prices set out plainly. The balance is only due once the system is installed and demonstrated as generating to your satisfaction. That is how confident the work stands behind itself.
One accountable engineer behind every design, survey and sign-off. No commissioned advisors, no disappearing subcontractors.
No field sales reps, in-house warehousing and trade discounts secured by buying volume.
Every system sized from your real usage, with the components and the reasons for them set out in writing before you commit.
Latest-generation panels and inverters, only from manufacturers that respond properly under warranty.
In the old Rhodian telling, Alectrona was a daughter of Helios, the Greek sun god, honoured as a goddess of the morning sun.
We took the name on purpose. Solar is sunlight made useful, and a name worth living up to keeps the bar high: engineered with care, built to last, and honest about what the sun can do for you.
We fit the brands we trust to last and know we can support: manufacturers that respond properly under warranty and ship parts within days.
MC4 plug-and-socket connectors are one of the most common failure points in the UK installed base, diagnosed in real time through our sister company Solar Tech Support. Every man-made MC4, the connectors we crimp on site, gets a sealed ArcBox enclosure: weatherproof, UV-stable, and proof against the arcing-on-corroded-pins failure behind many rooftop PV fires. The field-made connectors are where the risk lives, so those are the ones we seal.
Where the cable run permits, we use PV Ultra: TÜV-certified to EN 50618, double-insulated, UV and ozone rated. It costs more than the bare-minimum H1Z2Z2-K most installers fit. Over a 25-year design life that price difference is the right call every time, and the only one our engineers will sign off.
Our Qualifying Supervisor, a qualified electrician, personally reviews the install report on every job before commissioning sign-off. Photos, test certificates, torque-check log, commissioning data: all filed, checked, signed. We are an engineering company first, so every install gets a second pair of trained eyes. The installer never signs themselves off.
Retrofit a battery to almost any existing solar system, any inverter brand, usually in a day. Keep your daytime solar for the evening instead of selling it back cheap.
A properly engineered home solar system, sized to your roof and your usage, with the components and the reasons for them set out in writing.
Commercial solar and storage with a real on-site drone survey and bankable-grade modelling, so the numbers stand up to your finance director.
We pull 12 months of your half-hourly data via your DNO and run a quick consumption analysis.
Day 1 · Remote
A salaried engineer surveys roof, loft, meter and consumer unit. No configurator templates.
Within 1 week · On site
String layout, inverter sizing, battery dimensioning, smart-tariff modelling, all signed off.
Within 5 working days
Same team from survey to commissioning. Scaffolding is the only subcontracted trade.
Weeks 3–5 · On site
Our own insured pilot flies your roof and captures the real geometry and shading, so the design starts from your building instead of a satellite guess.
Booked to suit your operating hours
We model the array in bankable-grade software, size it around your daytime load, and set out generation, savings and payback across three funding routes.
Modelled, not promised
Designed and installed to BS 7671, commissioned to IEC 62446-1, connected under G99 and run under CDM 2015. Alectrona is typically the Principal Contractor.
Outside MCS, assured by the non-MCS stack
A 12-month defects period backed by an Insurance-Backed Guarantee, then ongoing operations and maintenance so the asset keeps earning for its full working life.
Kept performing, year on year
Tell us what you've got and what you want. We'll come back with straight numbers and the engineering behind them. No commissioned salespeople. Your engineer owns the conversation from first call to commissioning.