Farm solar panels across Devon
We survey farm and agricultural building roofs throughout Devon, model what each one can carry, and arrange the design, the grid application and the install through our MCS-certified partner.
- Modelled yield
- 936 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Devon towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- National Grid Electricity Distribution
- G99 applications and export limits
- Solar on record
- 248 schemes / 1451 MW
- REPD Q1 2026, 90 operational
- Towns covered
- 8
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Devon
Modelled yield is not flat across Devon. Paignton comes out at 961 kWh per kWp a year against 903 at Tiverton, a spread of 58 kWh per kWp. On a 200 kWp farm array that difference is about 11,600 kWh a year, which is worth checking before accepting a generic saving figure.
Across the districts we cover in Devon the planning record lists 18 ground mounted and 11 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 National Grid Electricity Distribution. 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.
- Plymouth 960 kWh/kWp
- Exeter 938 kWh/kWp
- Paignton 961 kWh/kWp
- Torquay 937 kWh/kWp
- Exmouth 937 kWh/kWp
- Barnstaple 908 kWh/kWp
- Newton Abbot 943 kWh/kWp
- Tiverton 903 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Devon
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.