
*Dependent on the customer’s consumption, generation and electricity cost at the time of install.
A gurdwara rarely closes. The langar serves free meals to all, every day, and with it come cooking, refrigeration, hot water, heating, lighting and the community hall. That heavy, daily load is exactly what solar is built to feed. A comparable place of worship we powered, a busy Brent mosque, now makes around 70% of its own power and keeps £136,000 in the community over the system life.
A gurdwara is a place of seva as much as prayer, and its langar, the free community kitchen open to everyone, runs every day. That means cooking, refrigeration, hot water and washing up on a serious scale, alongside heating a large hall, lighting, sound and community rooms. Much of it is pulled in daylight, and it never really stops. That steady, heavy, daytime load is exactly what rooftop solar is built to feed, so most of what you generate is used serving the sangat rather than sold cheaply to the grid.
The money it frees is the community. Gurdwaras run on sangat donations and dasvandh, so every pound taken by the energy company is a pound not spent on langar, seva and the people who come through the doors. A comparable place of worship we powered, a busy Brent mosque, now makes around 70% of its own power and is on track to keep £136,000 over the life of its system.
Solar sits naturally with Sikh values: sarbat da bhala, the wellbeing of all, and care for the world we share. Visible rooftop solar makes that real, and it is sound stewardship of the sangat giving too, a payback of roughly six to seven years, then decades of near-free power under a 25-year warranty.
We handle the practical side and plan around how the gurdwara is used, working around prayers, langar service and weekend congregations. Pairing panels with battery storage keeps lighting, the kitchen essentials and the PA running through a grid event, so seva carries on.
We will not pretend we have already done a gurdwara. Here are the real numbers from a place of worship with the same daily-use, community-kitchen profile, a busy Brent mosque, the kind of figures we will model for your gurdwara before you commit to anything.
A place of worship with the same all-day, community-kitchen load now makes most of its own power and is on track to keep £136,000 in the community over the life of its system. We would model your gurdwara exact numbers, and put them in front of you before you commit, not after.
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SDistribution51.6 kWp
AIndustrial70%bill cut
ORetail68%bill cut
RServices67%bill cut
JConstruction60%bill cut
FHealthcare67%bill cutA starting point, not a straitjacket. Every real system is sized to your roof, your load and your payback target after a proper site visit.



A solar installation on a working gurdwara is a different job from a home system. One team, in-house, from first site visit to switch-on, and we plan the work around your shifts so seva carries on.
The questions gurdwara committees actually ask before putting solar on the roof.
It covers a large share of your daily load. Because the langar, lighting, heating and hot water all draw power through the day, most of the solar is used on site rather than exported. A comparable place of worship we powered now makes around 70% of its own power, and pairing panels with battery storage pushes that further into the evening.
We will be honest: not yet, so we will not quote you a gurdwara we have not done. What we can show you are real results from places of worship with the same daily-use, community-kitchen profile, like a Brent mosque on track to keep £136,000 over its life. We would assess and model your gurdwara own numbers first.
Every gurdwara is different, so we size and price it to your roof and how you use power, then show you what it gives back. As a community-funded building you may also have access to grants and funding routes, and because it is a long-term, income-generating asset it fits sangat and dasvandh-conscious budgeting.
It doesn't have to. Almost all of the work happens on the roof, away from the darbar sahib and the langar hall. We plan around prayers, langar service and weekend congregations, isolate only what we must and only when agreed, and keep the gurdwara running. Zero disruption to seva is the target we plan to hit.
Paired with battery storage, yes, for essential load. Lighting, kitchen essentials and the PA can carry a service through a grid event on stored solar. We design the system around what your gurdwara cannot afford to lose.
Yes. A larger system needs approval from your Distribution Network Operator, and we manage that application and all certification for you, so you get a signed-off, compliant system without the paperwork.
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Solar for gurdwaras sits inside our wider commercial work. If you are comparing sectors, or your group runs more than one type of site, these are the closest neighbours.
Commercial solar, the full guide →The full guide: sizing, funding, planning and payback, designed and commissioned in-house.
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Local councilsPSDS, Salix and PPA-funded solar across social housing and council estates.
Commercial case studies →Real installations across care homes, surgeries, hotels, retailers and mills.Tell us about your site and we'll model it properly: the right system for your roof, how much of your load it covers, the cut to your bill and the payback. Real numbers, before you commit to anything.