Commercial building solar panels across Derbyshire
We arrange roof surveys on offices, retail units, hotels and leisure buildings throughout Derbyshire, 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
- 848 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Derbyshire towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- National Grid Electricity Distribution
- G99 applications and export limits
- Commercial stock
- 5,110 office / 7,420 retail
- VOA rating list, March 2025
- Commercial rooftop schemes
- 3 on record
- REPD Q1 2026, districts we cover
- Towns covered
- 8
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Derbyshire
Modelled yield varies across Derbyshire: Long Eaton comes out at 866 kWh per kWp a year against 805 at Buxton. On a 210 kWp commercial roof that gap is about 12,810 kWh a year.
Across the 7 authorities our Derbyshire towns sit in, the Valuation Office Agency lists 5,110 office and 7,420 retail properties, 260 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 3 roof-mounted solar schemes on commercial buildings in the postcode districts we cover here, including Sainsbury, Cawdor Way and Arc Leisure Centre, Bakewell Road. These are other organisations' projects, listed from the public record. Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q1 2026.
Connections across the county run through National Grid Electricity Distribution. 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.
- Derby 862 kWh/kWp
- Chesterfield 843 kWh/kWp
- Ilkeston 855 kWh/kWp
- Long Eaton 866 kWh/kWp
- Swadlincote 856 kWh/kWp
- Buxton 805 kWh/kWp
- Belper 850 kWh/kWp
- Matlock 844 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Derbyshire
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.