Farm solar panels across Cheshire
We survey farm and agricultural building roofs throughout Cheshire, model what each one can carry, and arrange the design, the grid application and the install through our MCS-certified partner.
- Modelled yield
- 825 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Cheshire towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- SP Energy Networks / Electricity North West
- G99 applications and export limits
- Solar on record
- 157 schemes / 582 MW
- REPD Q1 2026, 13 operational
- Towns covered
- 7
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Cheshire
Modelled yield is not flat across Cheshire. Nantwich comes out at 840 kWh per kWp a year against 790 at Macclesfield, a spread of 50 kWh per kWp. On a 200 kWp farm array that difference is about 10,000 kWh a year, which is worth checking before accepting a generic saving figure.
Across the districts we cover in Cheshire the planning record lists 8 ground mounted and 14 roof mounted solar schemes. Ground mounted schemes tell you how the network here has treated field arrays; roof mounted ones are undercounted, because an array on a farm building rarely passes the reporting threshold. Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q1 2026.
Connections across the county run through SP Energy Networks / Electricity North West. Anything above 3.68 kW per phase needs a G99 application, and on rural feeders the incoming supply is often the real limit: a single phase supply caps the array whatever the roof would carry.
- Warrington 828 kWh/kWp
- Chester 836 kWh/kWp
- Crewe 835 kWh/kWp
- Ellesmere Port 835 kWh/kWp
- Macclesfield 790 kWh/kWp
- Wilmslow 801 kWh/kWp
- Nantwich 840 kWh/kWp
- Northwich 832 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Cheshire
Send the postcode and the rough footprint. We come back with what the roof can carry, what it would generate against your consumption, and what the funding routes look like.