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Solar panels contracts

UK public sector · 195 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
195
Last 12 months
Median contract
£176k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£589m
173 of 178 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
135
Suppliers
137

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most solar panels contracts took 13% of them (26 of 195).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 57% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £176k, is 27% above the median across construction & trades contracts (£139k).
  • South East had the most contracts: 29, or 15% of the total.

Who buys solar panels

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust6 contracts
  2. 2Adra (Tai) Cyf6 contracts
  3. 3Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust6 contracts
  4. 4HOUSING 215 contracts
  5. 5Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust4 contracts
  6. 6South Tyneside Council4 contracts
  7. 7Hampshire County Council4 contracts
  8. 8West Sussex County Council3 contracts
  9. 9The Coal Authority3 contracts
  10. 10Peterborough City Council3 contracts

Top solar panels contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Energy Efficient Solutions Group6 contracts
  2. 2GW Power Safe Ltd6 contracts
  3. 3Rothwell Plumbing Services5 contracts
  4. 4Wil-Lec Group5 contracts
  5. 5iChoosr Ltd4 contracts
  6. 6EES Group4 contracts
  7. 7Jonstar Sustainable Technologies Ltd4 contracts
  8. 8Ecolution Group4 contracts
  9. 9Sureserve3 contracts
  10. 10Mitie3 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

54Q4 2025*76Q1 202631Q2 202633Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 164 · Wales 26 · Scotland 5

South East29Wales25Yorkshire and The Humber23London19South West17North East16West Midlands14North West13East Midlands12East of England11Scotland3UK-wide or not stated13

What is included

Design, supply, installation, replacement and maintenance of rooftop and ground-mounted solar PV, solar thermal panels and building battery storage.

  • Rooftop solar PV on public and housing buildings
  • Solar PV with battery storage
  • Standalone building battery systems
  • Solar thermal panels
  • PV servicing, repair and panel replacement
  • Solar group-buying schemes for households
  • Private-wire connection of residents to estate solar PV generation, including operating the arrangement

What is not included

  • Solar canopies let inside an EV charging concession (con.energy.ev-charging-concessions)
  • EV chargepoints (con.energy.ev-chargepoints)
  • Multi-measure non-domestic decarbonisation projects (con.energy.non-domestic-decarbonisation-retrofit)
  • Multi-measure domestic retrofit (con.energy.domestic-whole-house-retrofit)
  • Solar panel cleaning (cln.ext.solar-panel-cleaning)
  • Power purchase and energy supply agreements (not this industry: energy and fuel supply)

Often bought by the same buyers