Farm solar panels across Leicestershire
We survey farm and agricultural building roofs throughout Leicestershire, model what each one can carry, and arrange the design, the grid application and the install through our MCS-certified partner.
- Modelled yield
- 875 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Leicestershire towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- National Grid Electricity Distribution
- G99 applications and export limits
- Solar on record
- 165 schemes / 1259 MW
- REPD Q1 2026, 37 operational
- Towns covered
- 6
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Leicestershire
Modelled yield is not flat across Leicestershire. Market Harborough comes out at 891 kWh per kWp a year against 863 at Coalville, a spread of 28 kWh per kWp. On a 200 kWp farm array that difference is about 5,600 kWh a year, which is worth checking before accepting a generic saving figure.
Across the districts we cover in Leicestershire the planning record lists 15 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.
- Leicester 874 kWh/kWp
- Loughborough 868 kWh/kWp
- Hinckley 870 kWh/kWp
- Wigston 877 kWh/kWp
- Melton Mowbray 879 kWh/kWp
- Market Harborough 891 kWh/kWp
- Coalville 863 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Leicestershire
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.