Commercial building solar panels across Greater Manchester
We arrange roof surveys on offices, retail units, hotels and leisure buildings throughout Greater Manchester, 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
- 791 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Greater Manchester towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- Electricity North West
- G99 applications and export limits
- Commercial stock
- 22,100 office / 27,240 retail
- VOA rating list, March 2025
- Commercial rooftop schemes
- 6 on record
- REPD Q1 2026, districts we cover
- Towns covered
- 10
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Greater Manchester
Modelled yield varies across Greater Manchester: Wigan comes out at 828 kWh per kWp a year against 769 at Ashton-under-Lyne. On a 210 kWp commercial roof that gap is about 12,390 kWh a year.
Across the 10 authorities our Greater Manchester towns sit in, the Valuation Office Agency lists 22,100 office and 27,240 retail properties, 900 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 6 roof-mounted solar schemes on commercial buildings in the postcode districts we cover here, including Salford Road, Life Leisure Grand Central, Grand Central Square, Spotland Stadium, Sandy Lane and The Food Warehouse Iceland, Pilsworth Road. 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.
- Manchester 788 kWh/kWp
- Bolton 801 kWh/kWp
- Stockport 785 kWh/kWp
- Rochdale 771 kWh/kWp
- Oldham 771 kWh/kWp
- Salford 794 kWh/kWp
- Wigan 828 kWh/kWp
- Bury 788 kWh/kWp
- Altrincham 816 kWh/kWp
- Ashton-under-Lyne 769 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Greater Manchester
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.