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Solar panels for warehouses in Cardiff City Centre

Roof space is the one asset a Cardiff City Centre unit already owns and rarely uses. We start with the covering and the structure, because a roof with five years left in it changes the answer entirely.

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96 m phase 1
Drawing Cardiff City Centre unit
Roof 96 x 62 m
Array 420 kWp
Yield 380,000 kWh/yr
Scale 1:500 / Rev A / Cardiff

Illustrative layout for a unit of this size. Your own figures come from the roof survey.

Cardiff City Centre / Cardiff
Aerial view of an industrial estate where some warehouse roofs carry solar arrays and others are bare steel
Industrial stock of the kind we survey across Cardiff.

Warehouse rooftop solar across Cardiff

FIG. 1 What a Cardiff City Centre roof makes, month by month
Source: EU PVGIS v5.2
FIG. 2 Cardiff City Centre against the rest of Cardiff
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Cardiff City Centre ranks 0 of 4 towns we cover in Cardiff on modelled yield, against a national mean of 886 kWh per kWp. The county runs from 908 to 936, a spread of 28 kWh per kWp. Within Cardiff that difference is small enough to ignore: where the building sits is not what decides this scheme, your consumption pattern is.

Bars are zero based, so length is proportional to the figure. Where a county is flat, that is the finding: location is not the lever, consumption is. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2, modelled per town

Grid connection through National Grid Electricity Distribution

Connections around Cardiff City Centre are handled by National Grid Electricity Distribution, which sets the export limit for the site. Above 3.68 kW per phase the connection runs under G99, so the export limit is agreed in advance rather than assumed. Where the local network is constrained, an export-limited connection usually still makes the scheme work, because a warehouse uses most of what the roof makes during the working day.

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Tell us where the unit is and roughly how big the roof is. We come back with what it can carry, what it would generate against your consumption, and the three ways to pay for it.

Lenzie Consulting Ltd arranges the survey and passes your details to our MCS-certified installation partner so they can quote.

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Questions about solar in Cardiff City Centre

Does the grid around Cardiff City Centre have capacity?
National Grid Electricity Distribution is the distribution network operator for Cardiff. Anything above 3.68 kW per phase connects under G99, and the application sets the export limit. We submit it as part of the design.