Commercial building solar panels across Cumbria
We arrange roof surveys on offices, retail units, hotels and leisure buildings throughout Cumbria, model what each roof can carry against the building's own consumption, and arrange the design, the grid application and the install through our MCS-certified partner.
- Modelled yield
- 829 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Cumbria towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- Electricity North West
- G99 applications and export limits
- Commercial stock
- 3,050 office / 5,270 retail
- VOA rating list, March 2025
- Commercial rooftop schemes
- 2 on record
- REPD Q1 2026, districts we cover
- Towns covered
- 6
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Cumbria
Modelled yield varies across Cumbria: Barrow-in-Furness comes out at 893 kWh per kWp a year against 793 at Kendal. On a 210 kWp commercial roof that gap is about 21,000 kWh a year.
Across the 2 authorities our Cumbria towns sit in, the Valuation Office Agency lists 3,050 office and 5,270 retail properties, 170 of them large-format stores and retail warehouses. Source: Valuation Office Agency, Non-domestic rating: business floorspace, 31 March 2025 (published December 2025), counts and floorspace by special category code and local authority district, England and Wales.
The planning database records 2 roof-mounted solar schemes on commercial buildings in the postcode districts we cover here, including Workington Leisure Centre, Griffin Street - Solar Panls. These are other organisations' projects, listed from the public record. Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q1 2026.
Connections across the county run through Electricity North West. Anything above 3.68 kW per phase needs a G99 application, and the export limit offered shapes the design, so the question is asked before the array is sized.
- Carlisle 806 kWh/kWp
- Barrow-in-Furness 893 kWh/kWp
- Kendal 793 kWh/kWp
- Whitehaven 855 kWh/kWp
- Workington 835 kWh/kWp
- Penrith 794 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Cumbria
Send the postcode, the rough footprint and whether you own or lease the building. We come back with what the roof can carry, what it would generate against your consumption, and what the funding routes look like.