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Solar panels for farms in Bristol City Centre

The case for solar on a Bristol City Centre holding turns on how much of the output the farm uses itself, not on how much the roof makes. The survey starts on the covering: fibre cement or steel, its remaining life, the purlin spacing and what the frame will carry.

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96 m phase 1
Drawing Bristol City Centre unit
Roof 96 x 62 m
Array 420 kWp
Yield 380,000 kWh/yr
Scale 1:500 / Rev A / Bristol

Illustrative layout for a unit of this size. Your own figures come from the roof survey.

Bristol City Centre / Bristol
A modern steel framed agricultural building with its roof covered in solar panels, tractor and trailer in the yard, fields beyond
Industrial stock of the kind we survey across Bristol.

Solar for agricultural buildings across Bristol

No solar scheme is recorded in this postcode district in the planning database. On a farm that usually means nothing has been built above the reporting threshold rather than that nothing has been built, because a roof array on a shed rarely appears in it.

FIG. 1 What a Bristol City Centre roof makes, month by month
Source: EU PVGIS v5.2
FIG. 2 Bristol City Centre against the rest of Bristol
  • Bishopston908
  • Bedminster906
  • Hengrove903
  • Keynsham902
  • Filton895

Bristol City Centre ranks 0 of 5 towns we cover in Bristol on modelled yield, against a national mean of 886 kWh per kWp. The county runs from 895 to 908, a spread of 13 kWh per kWp. Within Bristol that difference is small enough to ignore: where the building sits is not what decides this scheme, your consumption pattern is.

Bars are zero based, so length is proportional to the figure. Where a county is flat, that is the finding: location is not the lever, consumption is. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2, modelled per town

Grid connection through National Grid Electricity Distribution

Connections around Bristol City Centre are handled by National Grid Electricity Distribution, which sets the export limit for the site. Above 3.68 kW per phase the connection runs under G99, so the export limit is agreed in advance rather than assumed. Where the local network is constrained, an export-limited connection usually still makes the scheme work, because a farm uses most of what the roof makes during the working day.

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Tell us where the unit is and roughly how big the roof is. We come back with what it can carry, what it would generate against your consumption, and the three ways to pay for it.

Lenzie Consulting Ltd arranges the survey and passes your details to our MCS-certified installation partner so they can quote.

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Questions about solar in Bristol City Centre

Who do we apply to for export near Bristol City Centre?
Only National Grid Electricity Distribution can answer it for your connection, and on rural feeders the answer varies farm to farm. An export-limited offer usually still works, because a holding with grain drying, cooling or ventilation uses most of what it makes.

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