Providing vegetation management, solar cleaning, and full compliance for your solar portfolio.
Sustainable solar land management through precision livestock control.
Professional solar panel cleaning and drone-assisted re-seeding for solar sites.
How Solar and Sheep can ensure your solar array is compliant.
How Solar and Sheep can ensure your solar array is compliant.
Every change to the flock and every change to the land is recorded as it happens — dated, attributable and kept. Nothing is written up afterwards from memory.
That record exists to be audited. When the conditions attached to your planning permission have to be discharged, the evidence is already there, in a format a planning officer or ecologist expects to see. It is how the business is built, not a report assembled at the end of the season. This is where Solar and Sheep are different to the rest, and compliance is only half the picture. The same flock that delivers your vegetation management, also opens the door to genuine ecological gain.
Ensure full alignment with local authority planning conditions. Sheep grazing provides a silent, zero-emission vegetation control method.
Technical delivery of Landscape and Ecological Management Plans. Helping to manage sward structure and species composition to meet ecological performance standards, as required by planning conditions.
Traditional mowing comes with inherent risks of sparks starting wild fires. Managing the grass on site through sheep grazing eliminates this risk, whilst also managing the amount of vegetation that would be the fuel source of a fire.
Grazing reduces long-term expenditure by replacing diesel-intensive mechanical mowing with a sustainable, carbon-efficient land management model.
Sheep grazing supports biodiversity gain on site, with features such as bat boxes and the option to work alongside our ecologist partners to shape a wider biodiversity strategy for the site.
Zero risk of stone-throw damage to PV modules or accidental cable strikes—standard operational risks inherent to rotary and flail mowing equipment.
Precise grazing beneath and between panels, with complementary mechanical mowing, a full ground maintenance solution.
Every site we run is planned against its own Landscape and Ecological Management Plan — sward targets, seasonal growth, access constraints and the ecology conditions required. Fencing, water, welfare and flock movement are handled by our team on the ground, and tracked in real time through Ovis Agri, our own in-house flock management app.
Ovis Agri is our own flock management app. We didn’t buy it in — we built it, and we built the solar side of it specifically for grazing panels.
Every ewe on site is a record: tag, weight, treatments, withdrawal dates. The site itself is drawn to its real boundaries — arrays, gates, cable runs, inverter stations and the ground that has to stay off-limits — so grazing is planned against what is actually there. Every gate carries a QR code, so anyone on site can report a broken fence or a sheep that needs looking at from a phone, with no login.
It leaves you the compliance record without anyone keeping a paper diary: what was grazed, when, by how many, and what medicine went into which animal.
Open the live demo →Read-only. Real screens, sample data for a solar park.
The difference: most vegetation contractors log what they did. We log what condition it discharges — so when a planning officer or ecologist asks for evidence, it’s already there.
Precision grazing, matched to your consent, not a generic schedule.
Providing professional solar panel cleaning and drone-assisted re-seeding services for solar parks, helping maximise productivity while supporting effective land management throughout the year.
Dust, dirt, pollen, bird deposits, moss and other environmental debris can accumulate on solar panels and reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the photovoltaic cells. Regular, timely cleaning helps keep panels operating efficiently and maximises the productivity of your solar investment. Our experienced specialist team provide an ongoing cleaning schedule to protect your investment.
Our approach is built around mechanical, soft-contact brush cleaning systems, designed specifically for ground-mounted PV layouts. The cleaning head follows the contour of the modules to deliver a consistent finish across varying panel heights, angles and rows. No chemicals are used so it remains 100% safe for the livestock and there is no risk of chemicals disrupting the local biodiversity.
We operate across England, Scotland and Wales, so you can standardise cleaning across multiple assets without relying on patchwork subcontracting.
You’ll have a dedicated account lead who remains your point of contact from planning through to completion — with practical, real-time updates from site.
Whether you manage a single site or a national portfolio, we can plan cleaning visits around your operational constraints.
We can also provide drone-assisted re-seeding for solar parks, offering an efficient way to target areas of ground cover that require attention.
Drone application can be particularly beneficial where access is difficult, ground conditions are challenging, or large areas need to be treated efficiently. Targeted re-seeding can help establish and maintain suitable vegetation beneath and around solar arrays, supporting effective site management while minimising unnecessary disturbance to the ground.
Enquire about bespoke sheep grazing management plans tailored to meet planning conditions and LEMP requirements across your asset portfolio.
Prospect Farm, Barnetby,
North Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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