Solar Quotes Ireland is a free quote-matching service for Irish homeowners. You submit your home details once, and we match you with SEAI-registered installers in your county. The installers compete for your job. You compare quotes side by side and pick the one that fits.
The site exists because getting a straight answer on Irish solar costs is harder than it should be. Most installer websites publish glossy brochures, not prices. Most comparison sites recycle the same generic content. The grant rules change. The export tariffs change. The technology changes. You are left ringing five installers, repeating your details five times, and trying to compare quotes that use different system sizes and different assumptions.
This site is built to fix that. One form. Verified installers only. Straight numbers — costs, grant value, payback, export earnings — referenced to SEAI, gov.ie and CRU sources you can check yourself.
Who runs this site
My name is Neil Russell. I built Solar Quotes Ireland and I write or oversee everything published on it.
My background is Irish B2B digital marketing and lead generation. I have spent the last several years running paid acquisition, SEO and outreach campaigns for Irish service businesses — including in the home-improvement and energy-services space. That work meant getting close to how Irish homeowners actually shop for trades: what they search, where they hesitate, which quotes feel trustworthy, which ones don't. It also meant getting close to the installers — how they price, how they qualify leads, where most "comparison" sites waste their time.
Solar Quotes Ireland is the version of a comparison site I kept wishing existed when I was researching this market: one that takes a homeowner's time seriously, refuses to publish generic copy, and only puts SEAI-registered, Safe Electric / RECI-certified installers in front of you.
You can find me on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/b2b-digitalmarketing. That profile is the public record of my professional background and is linked from this page's schema so search engines and AI tools can verify authorship.
Why you can trust what's published here
Editorial standards we apply to every page:
- SEAI-registered installers only. Every installer in our network is on the live SEAI registered companies list (seai.ie) and holds Safe Electric / RECI certification (safeelectric.ie). If an installer drops off either register, they come off our network the same week.
- Original input on every page. Every guide includes at least one of: a county-specific irradiance figure, a real installer quote, an original comparison table, or a direct SEAI / gov.ie / CRU citation with a takeaway competitors have not published. Pure rewording of other sites does not get published.
- Sources cited by name and link. Grant amounts, eligibility rules, microgeneration tariffs, planning exemptions and VAT treatment are sourced from seai.ie, gov.ie, cru.ie and revenue.ie. If a claim is not sourced, it does not ship.
- Numbers first, no hype. Solar in Ireland yields around 800–900 kWh per kWp per year. Payback is typically 7–10 years with the SEAI grant. We say that plainly. We do not write "transform your home" or "energy independence" copy because it does not help you make a decision.
- Dated publication and update timestamps. Every guide shows when it was first published and when it was last meaningfully edited — not auto-touched. If the SEAI grant amount changes or a new statutory instrument lands, the affected pages are updated and the date moves.
- Fact-check gate before any page goes live. Every page passes a structured fact-check against live SEAI, gov.ie and CRU pages before it is published. Anything that fails is held until it is sourced or rewritten.
How we make money
Honest answer: Solar Quotes Ireland is free for you. Installers pay us when we send them a qualified quote request from a homeowner in their service area.
That is the entire business model. You fill in the form. We match you with SEAI-registered installers in your county. Those installers pay us a fee for the introduction. You never pay anything to use this site, and we never charge you for the quotes.
A few things this model means in practice — worth being upfront about:
- We only make money when an installer wants the lead. That gives us a direct incentive to publish accurate cost ranges and realistic payback figures, so the homeowners we send through are well-informed and worth quoting for.
- We do not sell your details to anyone other than the installers matched to your enquiry. We do not pass them to general marketing databases or third-party advertisers. The full data-handling rules are in our privacy notice.
- Installer payments are flat-fee per qualified lead, not commission-based on the quoted system size. We have no incentive to push you toward a larger system than your home actually needs.
- We do not run paid placement. Installers in the network are ranked by proximity to your address, SEAI compliance, and response time — not by who pays the most.
Get in touch
For quote requests, use the quote request form — it captures the details installers need (county, BER, roof orientation, system-size interest) and gets you matched within 24–48 hours.
For anything else — installer enquiries, press, partnerships, corrections to a published page — see our contact page.