Solar panels for farms in Fleet
Farm buildings around Fleet carry broad, shallow roofs that were put up for storage and stock, not for generation. The survey starts on the covering: fibre cement or steel, its remaining life, the purlin spacing and what the frame will carry.
904 kWh per kWp a year at this latitude, so a 500 kWp array models at about 452,000 kWh. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss.
Book a roof survey in FleetIllustrative layout for a unit of this size. Your own figures come from the roof survey.
Solar for agricultural buildings across Hampshire
What a farm roof near Fleet generates
Modelled irradiation at this latitude is 1160 kWh per square metre a year in the plane of a shallow-pitched roof, which works out at 904 kWh for every kWp installed (EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss). That sits within a few percent of the mean across the areas we cover, so what decides the scheme is your own demand pattern rather than the latitude.
No solar scheme is recorded in this postcode district in the planning database. On a farm that usually means nothing has been built above the reporting threshold rather than that nothing has been built, because a roof array on a shed rarely appears in it.
Surveys run across GU postcodes, GU51 outward.
Hart is the planning authority for most holdings here, and it is the authority that decides whether an array on an agricultural building falls inside permitted development.
Fleet ranks 8 of 10 towns we cover in Hampshire on modelled yield, against a national mean of 886 kWh per kWp. The county runs from 903 to 987, a spread of 84 kWh per kWp. On a 500 kWp array that is about 42,000 kWh a year between the strongest and weakest town in the county.
Grid connection through Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks
Connections around Fleet are handled by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, which sets the export limit for the site. Above 3.68 kW per phase the connection runs under G99, so the export limit is agreed in advance rather than assumed. Where the local network is constrained, an export-limited connection usually still makes the scheme work, because a farm uses most of what the roof makes during the working day.
Across Hampshire the planning database records 237 solar schemes totalling 1634 MW, of which 51 are operational (REPD Q1 2026).
Send us the postcode
Tell us where the unit is and roughly how big the roof is. We come back with what it can carry, what it would generate against your consumption, and the three ways to pay for it.
Lenzie Consulting Ltd arranges the survey and passes your details to our MCS-certified installation partner so they can quote.
Questions about solar in Fleet
- What would a 500 kWp array produce on a farm near Fleet?
- Yes, and the figure matters more than the sunshine. At 904 kWh per kWp a year, a 500 kWp array on a Fleet holding models at around 452,000 kWh. What changes the answer is how much of that the farm uses itself. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss.
- Which network operator handles the connection around Fleet?
- Applications go to Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, who run the network across Hampshire. On a farm the incoming supply matters as much as their answer: a single phase supply caps what can be installed whatever the roof would take.
- What does Hart require for solar on an agricultural building?
- Roof-mounted panels on an agricultural building often fall under permitted development, subject to limits on projection above the roof plane and to the building not being listed or in a conservation area or National Park. We confirm the position with Hart before the design is finalised.