Solar panels for farms in Cromer
Most holdings around Cromer already own the best generating site they will ever have, and it is the roof of the shed they built for something else. The survey starts on the covering: fibre cement or steel, its remaining life, the purlin spacing and what the frame will carry.
923 kWh per kWp a year at this latitude, so a 500 kWp array models at about 462,000 kWh. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss.
Book a roof survey in CromerIllustrative layout for a unit of this size. Your own figures come from the roof survey.
Solar for agricultural buildings across Norfolk
What a farm roof near Cromer generates
Modelled irradiation at this latitude is 1166 kWh per square metre a year in the plane of a shallow-pitched roof, which works out at 923 kWh for every kWp installed (EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss). That is around 4 percent above the mean across the areas we cover, which is as strong as UK farm rooftop gets outside the south coast.
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.
Cromer ranks 1 of 8 towns we cover in Norfolk on modelled yield, against a national mean of 886 kWh per kWp. The county runs from 897 to 923, a spread of 26 kWh per kWp. Within Norfolk that difference is small enough to ignore: where the building sits is not what decides this scheme, your consumption pattern is.
Grid connection through UK Power Networks
Connections around Cromer are handled by UK Power 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 Norfolk the planning database records 179 solar schemes totalling 1490 MW, of which 43 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 Cromer
- Is there enough sun around Cromer to make this work?
- Modelled at 923 kWh per kWp a year for a shallow-pitched roof at this latitude, which puts a 500 kWp array at roughly 462,000 kWh a year before shading. That array needs about 1,485 sqm of clear roof once ridge vents and walkways are allowed for. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss.
- Who do we apply to for export near Cromer?
- Only UK Power Networks can answer it for your connection, and on rural feeders the answer varies farm to farm. An export-limited offer usually still works, because a holding with grain drying, cooling or ventilation uses most of what it makes.