Solar Panel Installers in Co. Cork

ProSolar has completed over 200 solar PV installations across Co. Cork, for homes, farms and businesses from Cork City and its suburbs to Mallow, Fermoy, Bandon, Kinsale and the West Cork coast. Our crews are in the county every week, and every system is surveyed, installed and commissioned by ProSolar staff rather than subcontractors. Recent commercial work includes a solar and battery storage system at Fota Wildlife Park, food-production solar at Staunton Foods in Timoleague and retail rooftop solar for Casey’s Furniture in Cork City.

Farming in Co. Cork? See our dedicated farm solar in Co. Cork page.

Running a business in Co. Cork? See commercial solar in Co. Cork.

Recent work in Co. Cork

Cork has some of the best commercial and agricultural roofs in the country: long, unshaded, and sitting over businesses that use most of their electricity during the day. A few of the systems we have delivered in the county:

• Fota Wildlife Park, Carrigtwohill. A 68-panel array and a 40 kWh battery at the Education, Conservation and Research Centre, live since December 2023. The battery stores the daytime surplus, charges on cheaper night-rate electricity when that pays, and keeps critical circuits running if the grid drops. Read the Fota case study.
• Staunton Foods, Timoleague. Food production runs refrigeration all day, every day, which is exactly the load solar covers best. This is one of the largest commercial systems we have installed in the county, designed around the plant’s cold-store demand rather than the size of the roof.
• Casey’s Furniture, Cork City. Rooftop solar for the Cork store of the family furniture retailer, following the 264-panel, 126.72 kWp system we built on their Limerick store.
• Cork farms. More than twenty farm systems in the county so far, including dairy units around Crookstown and Rosscarbery, most of them funded through the SEAI Non-Domestic grant or TAMS 3. Our farm solar page explains how we size a system to milking and cooling loads.

Other Cork organisations we have worked with include Celtic Sea Minerals in Carrigaline, the Mercy University Hospital and Flesk Meats. The bulk of our Cork work, though, is domestic: around 150 homes across the county, most of them on the standard SEAI grant, a good share with a battery.

Where we install in Co. Cork

We cover the whole county. Cork City and its suburbs, Douglas, Ballincollig, Blarney and Glanmire, make up a steady part of our work, as do the North Cork towns of Mallow, Fermoy, Charleville and Kanturk. Along the coast we install from Kinsale and Bandon out through Clonakilty, Skibbereen and Schull to Bantry and Castletownbere; our West Cork page covers that stretch in more detail. Below are some of the towns where we have already installed:

Grants for Cork homes, farms and businesses

A Cork home qualifies for the SEAI solar grant of up to €1,800 in 2026, and solar equipment carries 0% VAT. Businesses and farms can claim the SEAI Non-Domestic Microgen Grant, which has doubled, to a maximum of €325,200, for applications made by 6 July 2027 and has no ranking or waiting list (what the doubled grant means); farmers who qualify can apply for TAMS 3 at 60% instead. We are a registered installer for all of these schemes and handle the applications, including the ESB Networks connection paperwork, as part of the job. See our home solar, commercial and farm grant pages for the detail.

What Cork customers say

“Prosolar staff are knowledgeable and efficient. They are a team of professionals who get the job done in a very straightforward manner, from assessing what’s possible, installing, handling grant paperwork, etc. There’s always someone there to answer your questions. I’m delighted with my solar panels and EV charger.”

Catherine, Co. Cork

Common questions from Co. Cork

Do you really cover all of Co. Cork?

Yes. Our crews travel from our Kerry base and are in Cork every week, from the city to the Beara and Mizen peninsulas. Distance does not change the price of a system.

How long does an installation take?

Most home systems take a single day on site, and a commercial or farm system is usually finished within a few days. The lead time before that is set by the grant paperwork and the ESB Networks connection, both of which we handle, and we give you a realistic timetable when we quote.

Do I need planning permission for solar panels in Cork?

Rooftop solar on a house has been exempt from planning permission since 2022. Additional limits apply inside the safeguarding zone around Cork Airport, but a typical home system is well within them. We check this for you at survey, and for commercial roofs we confirm the position before any design work is done.