Commercial building solar panels across Kent
We arrange roof surveys on offices, retail units, hotels and leisure buildings throughout Kent, 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
- 947 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Kent towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- UK Power Networks
- G99 applications and export limits
- Commercial stock
- 10,290 office / 12,520 retail
- VOA rating list, March 2025
- Commercial rooftop schemes
- 4 on record
- REPD Q1 2026, districts we cover
- Towns covered
- 12
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Kent
Modelled yield varies across Kent: Margate comes out at 990 kWh per kWp a year against 915 at Dartford. On a 210 kWp commercial roof that gap is about 15,750 kWh a year.
Across the 12 authorities our Kent towns sit in, the Valuation Office Agency lists 10,290 office and 12,520 retail properties, 540 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 4 roof-mounted solar schemes on commercial buildings in the postcode districts we cover here, including W M Morrisons Supermarkets and Morrisons, Ten Perch Road. These are other organisations' projects, listed from the public record. Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q1 2026.
Connections across the county run through UK Power Networks. 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.
- Maidstone 930 kWh/kWp
- Chatham 920 kWh/kWp
- Dartford 915 kWh/kWp
- Margate 990 kWh/kWp
- Gravesend 926 kWh/kWp
- Canterbury 961 kWh/kWp
- Folkestone 990 kWh/kWp
- Dover 972 kWh/kWp
- Tonbridge 927 kWh/kWp
- Sevenoaks 920 kWh/kWp
- Ashford 983 kWh/kWp
- Tunbridge Wells 930 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Kent
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.