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Solar panels for farms in Sa1 Waterfront

Around Sa1 Waterfront the constraint is rarely the roof. It is the incoming supply and what the network will accept back. 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.

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96 m phase 1
Drawing Sa1 Waterfront unit
Roof 96 x 62 m
Array 420 kWp
Yield 380,000 kWh/yr
Scale 1:500 / Rev A / Swansea

Illustrative layout for a unit of this size. Your own figures come from the roof survey.

Sa1 Waterfront / Swansea
A modern steel framed agricultural building with its roof covered in solar panels, tractor and trailer in the yard, fields beyond
Industrial stock of the kind we survey across Swansea.

Agricultural rooftop solar across Swansea

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.

FIG. 1 What a Sa1 Waterfront roof makes, month by month
Source: EU PVGIS v5.2
FIG. 2 Sa1 Waterfront against the rest of Swansea
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  • Sketty921
  • Morriston899
  • Neath881

Sa1 Waterfront ranks 0 of 4 towns we cover in Swansea on modelled yield, against a national mean of 886 kWh per kWp. The county runs from 881 to 921, a spread of 40 kWh per kWp. Within Swansea that difference is small enough to ignore: where the building sits is not what decides this scheme, your consumption pattern is.

Bars are zero based, so length is proportional to the figure. Where a county is flat, that is the finding: location is not the lever, consumption is. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2, modelled per town

Grid connection through National Grid Electricity Distribution

National Grid Electricity Distribution is the network operator here, and their answer on export capacity shapes the design. Any commercial array above 3.68 kW per phase connects under G99 rather than G98, and the application fixes what you are allowed to push back onto the network. If the local network is tight, limiting export rarely breaks the case here: most of the generation is consumed on site while the building is working.

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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.

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Questions about solar in Sa1 Waterfront

Who do we apply to for export near Sa1 Waterfront?
Only National Grid Electricity Distribution 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.

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