We check every installer's MCS certificate — by hand

Plenty of solar directories work on a simple principle: if your card clears, you're in. Pay the fee, get the listing, no questions asked. It's a great business model — for the directory. Less great for the homeowner who assumes a listing means someone checked.

We took the harder road on purpose. No installer goes live on Solarable until we've verified their MCS certificate number ourselves.

What MCS actually buys you

MCS certification is the thing that makes your install eligible for the Smart Export Guarantee and signals the installer works to a recognised standard. It's also the credential most worth faking and least worth taking on trust. There's no public MCS lookup API, so "verified" can't mean a script glanced at a checkbox — it means a person checked the certificate. That's exactly what we do.

ScreenshotInstaller card with the MCS-verified badge

A gate, not a sticker

This isn't a badge we hand out for show — it's a gate in the system. An installer's profile literally cannot be published as live without a verified MCS number attached. If we can't confirm it, they don't appear. Full stop.

We're a paid directory, and we're upfront about that: installers pay for a listing, any featured placement is clearly labelled as paid, and we never resell your details or take a cut of the job. But "they paid us" and "we checked they're legitimate" are two different promises, and we make both. The fee gets you a listing. The verification is the part we don't sell.

Want the detail on exactly what we check and what we don't? It's all on how we vet installers, and our guide to MCS-certified installers explains why the credential matters in the first place.

Find verified installers covering your postcode — every one of them checked.