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Solar panels for farms in Leamington Spa

A Leamington Spa farm buys electricity at the worst rate of the day in exactly the hours its roof could be generating. Each survey records the sheet type and condition, the usable area once rooflights and vents come out, and whether the supply is single or three phase.

880 kWh per kWp a year at this latitude, so a 500 kWp array models at about 440,000 kWh. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2, SARAH3, 10 degree pitch, 14 percent system loss.

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96 m phase 1
Drawing Leamington Spa unit
Roof 96 x 62 m
Array 500 kWp
Yield 440,000 kWh/yr
Scale 1:500 / Rev A / Warwickshire

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

Leamington Spa / Warwickshire
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 Warwickshire.

Farm building solar PV across Warwickshire

What a farm roof near Leamington Spa generates

Modelled irradiation at this latitude is 1127 kWh per square metre a year in the plane of a shallow-pitched roof, which works out at 880 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.

FIG. 1 What a Leamington Spa roof makes, month by month

What a Leamington Spa roof makes, month by month

Modelled output per kWp installed, for a shallow-pitched south-facing array. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2.

050100Jan: 23 kWh per kWpJanFeb: 38 kWh per kWpFebMar: 72 kWh per kWpMarApr: 101 kWh per kWpAprMay: 119 kWh per kWpMayJun: 122 kWh per kWpJunJul: 123 kWh per kWpJul123 kWh Aug: 103 kWh per kWpAugSep: 80 kWh per kWpSepOct: 49 kWh per kWpOctNov: 29 kWh per kWpNovDec: 20 kWh per kWpDec

Jul produces 6.2 times what Dec does on the same roof. A 500 kWp array here models at about 440,000 kWh across the year, but it arrives unevenly, which is why we size against your summer daytime load and then look at whether storage is worth adding for the shoulder months.

Monthly figures as a table
MonthkWh per kWp500 kWp array
Jan2311,500
Feb3819,000
Mar7236,000
Apr10150,500
May11959,500
Jun12261,000
Jul12361,500
Aug10351,500
Sep8040,000
Oct4924,500
Nov2914,500
Dec2010,000
Source: EU PVGIS v5.2
FIG. 2 Leamington Spa against the rest of Warwickshire
  • Stratford-upon-Avon893
  • Rugby882
  • Warwick880
  • Leamington Spa880
  • Kenilworth877
  • Nuneaton866
  • Bedworth866

Leamington Spa ranks 4 of 7 towns we cover in Warwickshire on modelled yield, against a national mean of 886 kWh per kWp. The county runs from 866 to 893, a spread of 27 kWh per kWp. Within Warwickshire 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

Connections around Leamington Spa are handled by National Grid Electricity Distribution, 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 Warwickshire the planning database records 94 solar schemes totalling 1201 MW, of which 18 are operational (REPD Q1 2026).

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Questions about solar in Leamington Spa

What would a 500 kWp array produce on a farm near Leamington Spa?
Yes, and the figure matters more than the sunshine. At 880 kWh per kWp a year, a 500 kWp array on a Leamington Spa holding models at around 440,000 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 Leamington Spa?
Applications go to National Grid Electricity Distribution, who run the network across Warwickshire. 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.

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