Farm solar panels across Greater Manchester
We survey farm and agricultural building roofs throughout Greater Manchester, model what each one can carry, and arrange the design, the grid application and the install through our MCS-certified partner.
- Modelled yield
- 791 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Greater Manchester towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- Electricity North West
- G99 applications and export limits
- Solar on record
- 118 schemes / 110 MW
- REPD Q1 2026, 11 operational
- Towns covered
- 9
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Greater Manchester
Modelled yield is not flat across Greater Manchester. Wigan comes out at 828 kWh per kWp a year against 769 at Ashton-under-Lyne, a spread of 59 kWh per kWp. On a 200 kWp farm array that difference is about 11,800 kWh a year, which is worth checking before accepting a generic saving figure.
Across the districts we cover in Greater Manchester the planning record lists 1 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 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.
- Manchester 788 kWh/kWp
- Bolton 801 kWh/kWp
- Stockport 785 kWh/kWp
- Rochdale 771 kWh/kWp
- Oldham 771 kWh/kWp
- Salford 794 kWh/kWp
- Wigan 828 kWh/kWp
- Bury 788 kWh/kWp
- Altrincham 816 kWh/kWp
- Ashton-under-Lyne 769 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Greater Manchester
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.