Commercial building solar panels across Suffolk
We arrange roof surveys on offices, retail units, hotels and leisure buildings throughout Suffolk, 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
- 930 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Suffolk towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- UK Power Networks
- G99 applications and export limits
- Commercial stock
- 4,940 office / 5,870 retail
- VOA rating list, March 2025
- Commercial rooftop schemes
- 1 on record
- REPD Q1 2026, districts we cover
- Towns covered
- 8
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Suffolk
Modelled yield varies across Suffolk: Leiston comes out at 956 kWh per kWp a year against 905 at Newmarket. On a 210 kWp commercial roof that gap is about 10,710 kWh a year.
Across the 5 authorities our Suffolk towns sit in, the Valuation Office Agency lists 4,940 office and 5,870 retail properties, 240 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 1 roof-mounted solar scheme on commercial buildings in the postcode districts we cover here. 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.
- Ipswich 933 kWh/kWp
- Lowestoft 938 kWh/kWp
- Bury St Edmunds 912 kWh/kWp
- Felixstowe 950 kWh/kWp
- Sudbury 923 kWh/kWp
- Stowmarket 922 kWh/kWp
- Newmarket 905 kWh/kWp
- Leiston 956 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Suffolk
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.