Farm solar panels across Dorset
We survey farm and agricultural building roofs throughout Dorset, model what each one can carry, and arrange the design, the grid application and the install through our MCS-certified partner.
- Modelled yield
- 971 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Dorset towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks
- G99 applications and export limits
- Solar on record
- 149 schemes / 1078 MW
- REPD Q1 2026, 47 operational
- Towns covered
- 6
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Dorset
Modelled yield is not flat across Dorset. Weymouth comes out at 1006 kWh per kWp a year against 924 at Sherborne, a spread of 82 kWh per kWp. On a 200 kWp farm array that difference is about 16,400 kWh a year, which is worth checking before accepting a generic saving figure.
Across the districts we cover in Dorset the planning record lists 19 ground mounted and 10 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 Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks. 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.
- Bournemouth 971 kWh/kWp
- Poole 965 kWh/kWp
- Weymouth 1006 kWh/kWp
- Christchurch 981 kWh/kWp
- Dorchester 985 kWh/kWp
- Bridport 971 kWh/kWp
- Sherborne 924 kWh/kWp
- Wimborne 964 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Dorset
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.