Solar panels for farms in Pontcanna
Farm buildings around Pontcanna carry broad, shallow roofs that were put up for storage and stock, not for generation. What decides a farm scheme here is the state of the roof sheets and the incoming supply, which is why the survey looks at both before anyone sizes an array.
936 kWh per kWp a year at this latitude, so a 500 kWp array models at about 468,000 kWh. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss.
Book a roof survey in PontcannaIllustrative layout for a unit of this size. Your own figures come from the roof survey.
Agricultural rooftop solar across Cardiff
What a farm roof near Pontcanna generates
Modelled irradiation at this latitude is 1193 kWh per square metre a year in the plane of a shallow-pitched roof, which works out at 936 kWh for every kWp installed (EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss). That is around 6 percent above the mean across the areas we cover, which is as strong as UK farm rooftop gets outside the south coast.
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.
Pontcanna ranks 2 of 4 towns we cover in Cardiff on modelled yield, against a national mean of 886 kWh per kWp. The county runs from 908 to 936, a spread of 28 kWh per kWp. Within Cardiff that difference is small enough to ignore: where the building sits is not what decides this scheme, your consumption pattern is.
Grid connection through National Grid Electricity Distribution
National Grid Electricity Distribution operates the distribution network across Cardiff, so the export application goes to them. Anything larger than 3.68 kW per phase falls under G99, which means an application before commissioning rather than a notification afterwards. A constrained network is not the end of a scheme. Capping export costs little when the building already absorbs most of what the roof produces.
Send us the postcode
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.
Questions about solar in Pontcanna
- What would a 500 kWp array produce on a farm near Pontcanna?
- Yes, and the figure matters more than the sunshine. At 936 kWh per kWp a year, a 500 kWp array on a Pontcanna holding models at around 468,000 kWh. What changes the answer is how much of that the farm uses itself. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss.
- Which network operator handles the connection around Pontcanna?
- Applications go to National Grid Electricity Distribution, who run the network across Cardiff. On a farm the incoming supply matters as much as their answer: a single phase supply caps what can be installed whatever the roof would take.