Who we are
Solar Panels For Nursing Homes is a specialist commercial-solar service operated by SEO Dons Ltd (Company No. 16766013), registered at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ, with Donovan Fawcett as director. We focus on one thing: designing and delivering rooftop solar for CQC-registered nursing homes across the UK, from single independent homes to national group portfolios. Every installation is carried out by MCS-certified commercial engineers, and every proposal is modelled from your own half-hourly meter data rather than a rule of thumb per bed.
Why nursing homes specifically
A nursing home is a clinical building, not a residential one, and that changes the whole solar case. CQC registration for the regulated activity of nursing care means a Registered Nurse on shift twenty-four hours a day and a building full of always-on clinical equipment: nurse-call systems, ceiling-track hoists, electric profiling beds, pressure-relief mattresses, oxygen concentrators and medication fridges. That continuous clinical baseload is why nursing homes reach a higher and flatter solar self-consumption, typically 50-65% across the year, than the 40-60% of a hot-water-and-laundry-led residential care home. We built this service around that difference, because a generalist installer treating a nursing home like any other roof will size it wrong and miss the resilience needs that matter to medically-dependent residents.
How we work
We are independent of any single panel or inverter manufacturer, so the specification follows your roof, your load and your budget rather than a supplier target. Our process is deliberately survey-led and honest: a structural and asbestos survey on every feasibility, a design and fixed-price proposal modelled from twelve months of meter data, the G99 grid-connection application handled for you, and an install phased around drug rounds, clinical handovers and mealtimes with infection-control access agreed with your clinical lead in advance. Rooftop work stays above the clinical floor, so residents continue their care normally. Where resilience matters, we design lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery backup for the critical circuits, nurse-call, medication and vaccine fridges, oxygen concentrators and emergency lighting, sited externally and reflected in your PEEPs and fire risk assessment. We would rather tell you your roof does not suit solar than sell you a system that underperforms.
Accreditations you can verify
We hold the certifications a UK commercial solar installer should hold, and each can be checked against the issuing body rather than taken on trust: MCS for commercial installation, NICEIC as an approved electrical contractor, RECC membership under the Renewable Energy Consumer Code, TrustMark licensing, an IWA insurance-backed warranty providing ten-year workmanship cover, ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 for quality, environment and health and safety, and membership of Solar Energy UK. For access to resident and clinical areas, we arrange DBS-checked installers as standard. The accreditation cards below link straight to each issuing body so you can confirm them yourself.
Documentation for your CQC file
Because our buyers are registered managers, owners and group finance directors, we provide the paperwork the sector actually needs. Your registration for the regulated activity of nursing care is unaffected by a rooftop PV install, and solar supports the Well-led key question under the 2023 Single Assessment Framework, which references environmental sustainability and responsible use of resources. We document the works and safety measures for your inspection file, and for group operators we supply per-site generation data for SECR Scope 2 reporting.
Straight about the numbers
We do not publish invented install counts, star ratings or review totals, because a claim you cannot verify is worth nothing to a clinical buyer making a capital decision. What we will do is show you a payback modelled from your own consumption, name the accreditations you can check, and be candid about which funding routes apply to a private nursing home and which do not. If you want to talk it through, the fastest way is to request a free feasibility, and we will come back with a modelled, no-obligation proposal.