Commercial building solar panels across Sussex
We arrange roof surveys on offices, retail units, hotels and leisure buildings throughout Sussex, 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
- 988 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Sussex towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Commercial stock
- 9,050 office / 11,890 retail
- VOA rating list, March 2025
- Commercial rooftop schemes
- 8 on record
- REPD Q1 2026, districts we cover
- Towns covered
- 10
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Sussex
Modelled yield varies across Sussex: Chichester comes out at 1028 kWh per kWp a year against 915 at Crawley. On a 210 kWp commercial roof that gap is about 23,730 kWh a year.
Across the 10 authorities our Sussex towns sit in, the Valuation Office Agency lists 9,050 office and 11,890 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 8 roof-mounted solar schemes on commercial buildings in the postcode districts we cover here, including Unit 2, Hollywood Bowl, Crawley Leisure Park, David Lloyd Leisure, Romany Road - Photovoltaics panels, The David Lloyd Centre and Morrisons, Queens Road. These are other organisations' projects, listed from the public record. Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q1 2026.
- Crawley 915 kWh/kWp
- Worthing 999 kWh/kWp
- Eastbourne 1017 kWh/kWp
- Hastings 989 kWh/kWp
- Bognor Regis 1000 kWh/kWp
- Horsham 935 kWh/kWp
- Haywards Heath 957 kWh/kWp
- Chichester 1028 kWh/kWp
- Lewes 1028 kWh/kWp
- Brighton 1015 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Sussex
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.