About us

About Sora Energy

Solar, battery storage and EV charging for homes and commercial buildings across Yorkshire and the East Midlands, run from Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

Based in Doncaster
Domestic and commercial
Install and aftercare

Aerial view of a home with solar panels on the roof — One of our finished installations, seen from above.

Sora Energy designs and installs solar photovoltaic systems, battery storage and EV charge points, and looks after them afterwards. We work for homeowners, landlords, and businesses with a roof large enough to be worth using. A good proportion of our work is on systems somebody else installed — repairs, replacements, retrofits and health checks — which shapes how we approach a new installation, because we spend a lot of time looking at what fails and why.

We are a working installation business rather than a sales operation with a fitting arm. The person who surveys your roof is interested in rafter centres and the state of the covering, not in leaving with a signature that evening. There is no pressure to decide on the day, and no price that is only available before the surveyor gets back in the van.

Where we are based

Our registered office and operating base is Doncaster, South Yorkshire, in Doncaster. Surveys, design, scheduling, materials and aftercare all run from there. We do not have an office in every town on this website and we do not claim a team permanently based anywhere other than our own base — what we have is a working area we can reach properly, and a set of towns we are in most weeks.

Being where we are shapes the work. Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley and the South Yorkshire towns are our home patch, and the housing there — interwar semis, post-war estates with trussed roofs, Victorian terraces with brittle slate, and newer developments with covenants — is the housing we see most often. Our areas we cover page lists the towns with their own pages, and has a postcode checker that will tell you where you stand.

What we install

Solar PV

On-roof arrays on tile, slate and profiled metal coverings; in-roof systems set flush into the covering; flat roof systems, ballasted or mechanically fixed; and ground-mounted arrays where the roof is not the right place for them.

Solar panel installation

Battery storage

Storage designed around how a household actually uses electricity, either installed at the same time as the panels or retrofitted to an existing array with a suitable inverter arrangement.

Battery storage installation

EV charging

Home charge points installed as part of a solar project or on their own, wired and earthed correctly for the supply type at the property.

EV charger installation

Aftercare and repair

Servicing, health checks, fault diagnosis, inverter replacement, panel removal and refit for roof work, cleaning and bird protection — including on systems installed by other companies.

Solar panel maintenance

Commercial

Larger roof-mounted arrays on commercial and agricultural buildings, where metering, network application and access are usually the difficult part rather than the panels.

Commercial solar

The full list, including cleaning, monitoring, ground mounts and removal and refit, is on our services page. What suits a particular building is a separate question, and our property guide works through it by house age, type and roof.

The counties we cover

We work within about an hour and a half of Doncaster. These are the counties we work in, with the towns that have their own pages listed beneath each one. Towns not listed are not necessarily outside the area — they just do not have a page yet, and the postcode checker is the quicker way to find out.

South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire

Lincolnshire

Nottinghamshire

Derbyshire

Greater Manchester

Cheshire

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Staffordshire

County Durham

Cambridgeshire

Solar installation in Peterborough

For homes at the edge of the area we will confirm availability and any travel considerations when you enquire, rather than accepting the job and rescheduling you afterwards.

How we work

Every project follows the same seven stages: enquiry, remote design, survey, fixed quotation, permissions and scheduling, installation, then commissioning and handover. The order matters — in particular, no fixed price is issued before a survey, and no work starts before you have a written specification. Our how Sora Energy works page sets out each stage, what we need from you and what you receive at the end of it.

Depending on the service and location, work may be completed by Sora Energy or an approved installation partner working to our specification. We would rather say that plainly than imply a fleet of directly employed teams covering seven counties. What does not change is the specification, the standards the work is held to, who issues your documentation and who you call afterwards — all of which stay with Sora Energy.

Survey before price

An indicative proposal can be produced from imagery. A fixed price cannot. We survey the roof, the loft and the electrical supply first, and quote afterwards, so the things that usually become variations are priced before you commit rather than raised once the scaffold is up.

One written specification

The specification names the equipment, the layout, the fixing method and the electrical arrangement. It is the document the installation is carried out against and the document any dispute would be judged against. Nothing is installed that is not in it.

The roof is roofing work

Fixings go into rafters, not battens. Penetrations are detailed the way the mounting manufacturer specifies. Defective tiles found during the works are reported before an array goes over them. Most of the repairs we are called to were sound electrically and wrong on the roof.

Estimates labelled as estimates

Generation figures are modelled, not measured, and depend on weather, shading and usage. We will show you the assumptions behind a figure and we will not present a projection as a promise.

Documentation that outlives us

Certification, test results, layout drawings, serial numbers and warranty registrations are handed over as a pack. A future buyer’s surveyor, an export supplier and any warranty claim all depend on it.

Answering the telephone afterwards

Aftercare is a service we sell, not a favour. If something is not working, there is a route to a diagnosis and a repair, and a complaints procedure if that route fails you.

Company details

The entity you would be contracting with. Worth checking against any quotation you receive, from us or from anyone else.

Detail	Value
Trading name	Sora Energy
Registered company name	Sora Energy
Registered office	Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Telephone	0800 138 8360
Email	info@soraenergy.co.uk

Email us at info@soraenergy.co.uk, use the contact page or call 0800 138 8360.

Common questions

Where is Sora Energy based?

Our registered office and operating base is Doncaster, South Yorkshire, in Doncaster. Everything is run from there — surveys, design, scheduling and aftercare. We do not claim a local office in every town we work in.

How far do you travel?

We work within about an hour and a half of Doncaster, with Doncaster and the surrounding South Yorkshire towns as our home patch. Beyond that we will look at a project on its merits and tell you honestly whether travel makes it sensible for either of us. The coverage checker on the areas we cover page will tell you where your postcode sits.

Who carries out the installation?

Depending on the service and location, work may be completed by Sora Energy or an approved installation partner working to our specification. Whichever it is, the design, the written specification, the quotation and the aftercare route stay with us, and the same installation standards apply. We will tell you which arrangement applies to your job before you commit to it.

Do you work on systems installed by other companies?

Yes. Repairs, fault diagnosis, inverter replacement, battery retrofit, panel removal and refit for roof works, and health checks on existing arrays are a substantial part of what we do. We cannot claim under another installer’s guarantee, but our own work carries its own cover.

Are you certified under MCS or a consumer code?

Our accreditations page sets out what each scheme means and what we will publish about our own position. We do not display a badge until the certificate number, the holder, the expiry date and a public verification source have been confirmed, and where a certification is held by an installation partner rather than by Sora Energy that will be stated. Ask us and we will confirm in writing what applies to your installation.

Talk to us about your property

Send the postcode and a few details and we will tell you what suits the roof, then survey it before quoting a fixed price.

Get a quote Call 0800 138 8360