Farm solar panels across Essex
We survey farm and agricultural building roofs throughout Essex, 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 Essex towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- UK Power Networks
- G99 applications and export limits
- Solar on record
- 221 schemes / 2787 MW
- REPD Q1 2026, 46 operational
- Towns covered
- 7
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Essex
Modelled yield is not flat across Essex. Clacton-on-Sea comes out at 973 kWh per kWp a year against 908 at Harlow, a spread of 65 kWh per kWp. On a 200 kWp farm array that difference is about 13,000 kWh a year, which is worth checking before accepting a generic saving figure.
Across the districts we cover in Essex the planning record lists 7 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 UK Power 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.
- Southend-on-Sea 942 kWh/kWp
- Colchester 953 kWh/kWp
- Basildon 933 kWh/kWp
- Chelmsford 930 kWh/kWp
- Harlow 908 kWh/kWp
- Brentwood 913 kWh/kWp
- Clacton-on-Sea 973 kWh/kWp
- Grays 927 kWh/kWp
- Braintree 932 kWh/kWp
- Canvey Island 945 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Essex
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.