Farm solar panels across County Durham
We survey farm and agricultural building roofs throughout County Durham, model what each one can carry, and arrange the design, the grid application and the install through our MCS-certified partner.
- Modelled yield
- 823 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across County Durham towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- Northern Powergrid
- G99 applications and export limits
- Solar on record
- 85 schemes / 1168 MW
- REPD Q1 2026, 9 operational
- Towns covered
- 6
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about County Durham
Modelled yield is not flat across County Durham. Peterlee comes out at 845 kWh per kWp a year against 811 at Consett, a spread of 34 kWh per kWp. On a 200 kWp farm array that difference is about 6,800 kWh a year, which is worth checking before accepting a generic saving figure.
Across the districts we cover in County Durham the planning record lists 7 ground mounted and 25 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 Northern Powergrid. 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.
- Durham 823 kWh/kWp
- Consett 811 kWh/kWp
- Newton Aycliffe 819 kWh/kWp
- Chester-le-Street 821 kWh/kWp
- Bishop Auckland 817 kWh/kWp
- Peterlee 845 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in County Durham
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.