Commercial building solar panels across Somerset
We arrange roof surveys on offices, retail units, hotels and leisure buildings throughout Somerset, 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
- 914 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Somerset towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- National Grid Electricity Distribution
- G99 applications and export limits
- Commercial stock
- 8,010 office / 11,560 retail
- VOA rating list, March 2025
- Commercial rooftop schemes
- 9 on record
- REPD Q1 2026, districts we cover
- Towns covered
- 8
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Somerset
Modelled yield varies across Somerset: Weston-super-Mare comes out at 934 kWh per kWp a year against 894 at Frome. On a 210 kWp commercial roof that gap is about 8,400 kWh a year.
Across the 5 authorities our Somerset towns sit in, the Valuation Office Agency lists 8,010 office and 11,560 retail properties, 410 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 9 roof-mounted solar schemes on commercial buildings in the postcode districts we cover here, including Tesco Queensway Place, Westland Leisure Complex, Morrisons, Lysander Road and Butcombe Beer Store, The Polden Business Centre. 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.
- Bath 904 kWh/kWp
- Weston-super-Mare 934 kWh/kWp
- Taunton 911 kWh/kWp
- Yeovil 923 kWh/kWp
- Bridgwater 931 kWh/kWp
- Frome 894 kWh/kWp
- Wells 899 kWh/kWp
- Glastonbury 913 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Somerset
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.