Solar panels for farms in Mexborough
Most holdings around Mexborough already own the best generating site they will ever have, and it is the roof of the shed they built for something else. What decides a farm scheme here is the state of the roof sheets and the incoming supply, which is why the survey looks at both before anyone sizes an array.
847 kWh per kWp a year at this latitude, so a 500 kWp array models at about 424,000 kWh. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss.
Book a roof survey in MexboroughIllustrative layout for a unit of this size. Your own figures come from the roof survey.
Agricultural rooftop solar across South Yorkshire
What a farm roof near Mexborough generates
Modelled irradiation at this latitude is 1083 kWh per square metre a year in the plane of a shallow-pitched roof, which works out at 847 kWh for every kWp installed (EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss). That is about 4 percent below the mean across the areas we cover, so the case here rests on using the output on the holding rather than exporting it.
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.
Most of the buildings we look at here sit in the S postcode area.
Doncaster 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.
Mexborough ranks 2 of 6 towns we cover in South Yorkshire on modelled yield, against a national mean of 886 kWh per kWp. The county runs from 830 to 856, a spread of 26 kWh per kWp. Within South Yorkshire that difference is small enough to ignore: where the building sits is not what decides this scheme, your consumption pattern is.
Grid connection through Northern Powergrid
Northern Powergrid operates the distribution network across South Yorkshire, so the export application goes to them. Anything larger than 3.68 kW per phase falls under G99, which means an application before commissioning rather than a notification afterwards. A constrained network is not the end of a scheme. Capping export costs little when the building already absorbs most of what the roof produces.
Across South Yorkshire the planning database records 93 solar schemes totalling 1624 MW, of which 8 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 Mexborough
- How much does a farm roof near Mexborough generate?
- The model gives 847 kWh for every kWp installed here, so 500 kWp comes out at about 424,000 kWh a year before shading losses. A building of roughly 1,485 sqm of clear roof carries it. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss.
- Will the rural network around Mexborough take the export?
- Northern Powergrid is the distribution network operator for South Yorkshire. Anything above 3.68 kW per phase connects under G99, and the application sets the export limit. Rural supplies are often the binding constraint, so we ask the question before an array is sized.
- Is planning permission needed for panels on a farm building near Mexborough?
- Usually permitted development covers a roof array. Ground mounted arrays are a different question and are far more likely to need a full application. We put both to Doncaster before design sign-off.