Trade page
Websites for solar and renewables
Ten thousand pounds and up, researched for months, and usually decided by whoever explains it most clearly. This is the trade where the website does the most selling, because almost nobody rings a renewables firm before they have read three of them.
What your customers search for, and the pages that answer it
Renewables buyers arrive mid research. They already know the words, they want numbers, and they are checking whether you can be trusted with a large sum of money and a grant application.
Solar panel installation
The main page and the longest one. Panel options, roof suitability, what a typical system costs and what it realistically saves, with the assumptions stated.
Battery storage and retrofit
Increasingly the reason people call at all. Buyers want capacity, brands, and whether it can be added to a system they already have.
Air source heat pumps
A grant driven, cautious buyer. The page has to cover radiators, insulation and running costs honestly, because that is what they are worried about.
EV charger installation
Smaller, faster, and often the first job a customer books with you before the bigger one.
Grants and funding
Whichever schemes apply, explained plainly with eligibility and who does the paperwork. This page collects more enquiries than the product pages do.
Commercial solar
A different buyer entirely, looking for payback periods, roof surveys and references rather than reassurance.
What your work photographs like, and what we do about it
Renewables work photographs well and is almost always presented badly, usually as a manufacturer render instead of a real roof in your area.
Finished arrays on real roofs
Local housing stock, not a stock photo of a villa in California. Recognisable roofs sell to the neighbours.
Inverters and battery installs
A tidy cupboard install proves care better than any paragraph about quality.
Monitoring screenshots
A real generation graph from a real install, with the address removed, is the most persuasive image you own.
No manufacturer renders
They make you look like a reseller. We would rather use type and clear numbers than someone else's marketing image.
The registers that matter, shown where they count
This is a trade with a genuine cowboy problem, so the certification is the sale. It goes above the fold and beside every price.
- MCS certification number shown in the header and on every product page. Grant eligibility usually depends on it, so buyers look for it first.
- RECC or HIES consumer code membership stated plainly, with what it protects the customer against.
- NICEIC or NAPIT for the electrical side, shown alongside the renewables certification.
- TrustMark included where held, with the full name written out.
- Insurance backed guarantees length and underwriter named. On a five figure job this is often the deciding line.
They already know the words. They want numbers, and proof you can be trusted with a large sum.
Solar and battery work is electrical work with a longer sale attached, and it usually needs the roof assessing first. See websites for electricians and websites for roofers.
Proof, and its limits
No solar or renewables site is live yet. Here are the two nearest.
The closest live build for the shape of your sale is Praetor Fire and Security. Both are technical, both are compared over weeks, and both are bought by someone who checks accreditations before they ring. That site was stood up from nothing with eleven service pages and six sector pages, every credential in the open rather than behind a contact form, and the technical answers up front. MCS and RECC sit in exactly the place SSAIB and NSI sit on that build.
For the domestic half, EV chargers and battery retrofits, the closest is Mister Electrics, which covers chargers already. What neither proves is the grant question, which changes yearly and which we would build as its own page rather than a paragraph. When a solar or renewables site goes live here it will be on this page with the numbers measured on the live pages.
What it costs
Every price is on the site. None of it is behind a call.
£595
Refresh. You have a site, we rebuild it properly.
£999
New Site. The whole thing, built from scratch.
£1,995
Local. The service and area pages that do the ranking.
From £45
A month for a plan, if you want one. Care £45, Growth £295, Growth+ £695.
Worth reading before you spend anything
What a tradesman website actually costs
The real market ranges for rental, one-off and agency builds, with our prices sitting inside them.
Renting against owning
One, three and five year arithmetic, including when renting is the better call.
Alternatives to Checkatrade
Directories, Google Business Profile, your own site and word of mouth, weighed honestly.