Commercial building solar panels across North Yorkshire
We arrange roof surveys on offices, retail units, hotels and leisure buildings throughout North Yorkshire, 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
- 833 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across North Yorkshire towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- Northern Powergrid
- G99 applications and export limits
- Commercial stock
- 6,420 office / 9,180 retail
- VOA rating list, March 2025
- Commercial rooftop schemes
- 5 on record
- REPD Q1 2026, districts we cover
- Towns covered
- 8
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about North Yorkshire
Modelled yield varies across North Yorkshire: Scarborough comes out at 859 kWh per kWp a year against 799 at Skipton. On a 210 kWp commercial roof that gap is about 12,600 kWh a year.
Across the 3 authorities our North Yorkshire towns sit in, the Valuation Office Agency lists 6,420 office and 9,180 retail properties, 310 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 5 roof-mounted solar schemes on commercial buildings in the postcode districts we cover here, including David Lloyd Harrogate, Oakdale Place and Whitby Leisure Centre, West Cliff Avenue. These are other organisations' projects, listed from the public record. Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q1 2026.
Connections across the county run through Northern Powergrid. 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.
- York 840 kWh/kWp
- Harrogate 831 kWh/kWp
- Scarborough 859 kWh/kWp
- Ripon 834 kWh/kWp
- Knaresborough 833 kWh/kWp
- Skipton 799 kWh/kWp
- Northallerton 817 kWh/kWp
- Whitby 849 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in North Yorkshire
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.