Commercial building solar panels across Leicestershire
We arrange roof surveys on offices, retail units, hotels and leisure buildings throughout Leicestershire, 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
- 875 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Leicestershire towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- National Grid Electricity Distribution
- G99 applications and export limits
- Commercial stock
- 5,220 office / 7,750 retail
- VOA rating list, March 2025
- Commercial rooftop schemes
- 3 on record
- REPD Q1 2026, districts we cover
- Towns covered
- 7
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Leicestershire
Modelled yield varies across Leicestershire: Market Harborough comes out at 891 kWh per kWp a year against 863 at Coalville. On a 210 kWp commercial roof that gap is about 5,880 kWh a year.
Across the 7 authorities our Leicestershire towns sit in, the Valuation Office Agency lists 5,220 office and 7,750 retail properties, 220 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 Morrison Supermarkets, Cloverfield, Wigston Swimming Pool, Station Road and Morrisons, Whitwick 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.
- Leicester 874 kWh/kWp
- Loughborough 868 kWh/kWp
- Hinckley 870 kWh/kWp
- Wigston 877 kWh/kWp
- Melton Mowbray 879 kWh/kWp
- Market Harborough 891 kWh/kWp
- Coalville 863 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Leicestershire
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.