Commercial building solar panels across Staffordshire
We arrange roof surveys on offices, retail units, hotels and leisure buildings throughout Staffordshire, 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
- 844 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Staffordshire towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- National Grid Electricity Distribution
- G99 applications and export limits
- Commercial stock
- 5,260 office / 7,890 retail
- VOA rating list, March 2025
- Commercial rooftop schemes
- 5 on record
- REPD Q1 2026, districts we cover
- Towns covered
- 7
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Staffordshire
Modelled yield varies across Staffordshire: Tamworth comes out at 857 kWh per kWp a year against 826 at Newcastle-under-Lyme. On a 210 kWp commercial roof that gap is about 6,510 kWh a year.
Across the 7 authorities our Staffordshire towns sit in, the Valuation Office Agency lists 5,260 office and 7,890 retail properties, 420 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 Centrum East Retail Park, Meadowside Leisure Centre, High Street, Marlborough Way, Belgrave and The Food Warehouse by Iceland. 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.
- Stoke-on-Trent 833 kWh/kWp
- Newcastle-under-Lyme 826 kWh/kWp
- Burton upon Trent 852 kWh/kWp
- Tamworth 857 kWh/kWp
- Stafford 842 kWh/kWp
- Cannock 842 kWh/kWp
- Lichfield 857 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Staffordshire
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.