No. We are based in Leeds and most of our work is across Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Lancashire, but we deliver commercial solar over 50 kWp UK-wide. The on-site drone survey and the engineering travel to your site, wherever it is.
Alectrona
CoverageCommercial solar across the North and the UK.
We are a Leeds-based commercial solar installer covering Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Lancashire, and we work UK-wide for systems over 50 kWp. The survey comes to you, and we handle the connection with whichever network operator serves your site.
- Leeds-based, UK-wide
- On-site survey wherever you are
- Over 50 kWp, outside MCS
Based in Leeds, working across the North and UK-wide.
Our base is in West Yorkshire and most of our projects sit across Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Lancashire. That is where we are quickest to site and where we know the building stock best. It is not the limit of where we work.
For commercial solar over 50 kWp, we deliver UK-wide. A larger system justifies the engineering wherever it sits, and the parts that matter, the on-site drone survey, the PV*SOL model, the design to BS 7671 and the G99 connection, travel with the project. We will tell you plainly if a site is far enough out that it changes the practicalities.
Commercial solar, town by town.
Yorkshire is where we are quickest to site and know the building stock best. Each town page sets out the local roofs, the grid position and the maintenance picture honestly, with no claim of a local track record we have not earned yet.
West Yorkshire
- Leeds
M621 and Aire Valley distribution sheds, city-centre offices, and the York, Harrogate and Vale of York market towns.
- West Yorkshire
Bradford and Keighley mill stock, Kirklees and Calderdale valleys, Colne Valley chemicals, and the M62 shelf estates.
South Yorkshire
- Sheffield
Don Valley metals and process plants, the Advanced Manufacturing Park, M18 logistics and Humber dockside stock
Greater Manchester
- Manchester
Trafford Park manufacturing and distribution sheds, canal-side logistics at Irlam and Barton, and the M65 and M6 corridors through Lancashire.
Your connection runs through your local DNO.
The one part of a commercial project that is genuinely local is the grid connection. Every area has a Distribution Network Operator that owns the local network and assesses how a generator connects. Northern Powergrid covers most of Yorkshire and the North East; other regions have their own. A commercial array connects under a G99 application that the DNO assesses on the capacity of your local network.
We confirm which DNO covers your site and handle the G99 application and the technical correspondence as part of delivering the system, so the regional grid question is managed rather than handed to you.
How a project runs when the site is not down the road.
Distance changes the logistics of a commercial installation, not the engineering. The work that sets the design is the same wherever you are: our own insured pilot flies the on-site 3D drone survey, we take your half-hourly consumption data, and the array is modelled in PV*SOL against your real load. Those steps travel with the project, so a site a few hours from base gets the same designed proposal as one in Leeds.
The parts that are genuinely local are the grid connection and the site logistics, and we plan both around the location rather than assume them. We confirm the Distribution Network Operator for your area and handle the G99 application with them, and we plan deliveries, access and the install programme around the site so the work runs to a schedule you can hold a contractor to. Where a remote location does change the practicalities, the proposal says so and shows it, rather than leaving it to surface on site.
Commercial solar coverage: common questions
Yes. The survey is always on-site. Our own insured pilot flies a 3D drone survey of your roof and we take your half-hourly consumption data, because a commercial system cannot be designed properly from a desktop estimate. That holds for a site near our base and for one at the other end of the country.
It depends on where you are. Northern Powergrid is the DNO for most of Yorkshire and the North East. For Greater Manchester and Lancashire it is SP Electricity North West (formerly Electricity North West), and other regions have their own. Licence areas do not follow county lines, so we confirm the operator for your specific site rather than read it off a map. The DNO matters because a commercial array connects under a G99 application that the network operator assesses. We confirm which DNO covers your site and handle the application as part of the project.
Your price comes from the survey and the PV*SOL model, not from a per-mile rate, so distance is not a line item we load onto a quote. Where a site is remote enough that logistics genuinely affect the work, we tell you that openly and show it in the proposal rather than burying it.
The survey is quick to arrange wherever you are, because the drone pilot comes to your site from our Yorkshire base. The programme as a whole is governed by the grid connection rather than by travel: a system over 50 kWp connects under a G99 application to your Distribution Network Operator, which across Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire is Northern Powergrid and across Greater Manchester and Lancashire is SP Electricity North West (formerly Electricity North West), and on a constrained part of the network that assessment is usually the longest single step. We start it early and run the network correspondence ourselves, so it proceeds in parallel with the design rather than waiting behind it. We give a realistic programme for your site once the survey and connection position are known.
Get a commercial quote
Tell us where the site is.
Wherever you are, the survey comes to you and the model sets the price. Send us the site and the load, and we will come back with a designed system you can take to the board.
- On-site 3D drone survey, UK-wide
- We handle the DNO connection
- Over 50 kWp, outside MCS