Warehouse solar panels across Cumbria
We survey industrial and distribution roofs throughout Cumbria, model what each one can carry, and arrange the design, the grid application and the install through our MCS-certified partner.
- Modelled yield
- 829 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Cumbria towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- Electricity North West
- G99 applications and export limits
- Solar on record
- 86 schemes / 574 MW
- REPD Q1 2026, 17 operational
- Towns covered
- 6
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Cumbria
Modelled yield is not flat across Cumbria. Barrow-in-Furness comes out at 893 kWh per kWp a year against 793 at Kendal, a spread of 100 kWh per kWp. On a 500 kWp array that difference is about 50,000 kWh a year, which is worth checking before you accept a generic saving figure.
The larger roofs in Cumbria follow the freight routes. Across the towns we cover that means M6 J42, M6 J44, A69, A7, A595 and A590, which is where single-let distribution stock concentrates.
The government's planning database records 86 solar schemes in Cumbria totalling 574 MW, of which 17 are already operational and 11 of the schemes in our covered postcode districts are roof mounted. Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q1 2026.
Connections across the county run through Electricity North West. Anything above 3.68 kW per phase needs a G99 application, and the export limit they offer shapes the design, so we ask the question before the array is sized rather than after.
- Carlisle 806 kWh/kWp
- Barrow-in-Furness 893 kWh/kWp
- Kendal 793 kWh/kWp
- Whitehaven 855 kWh/kWp
- Workington 835 kWh/kWp
- Penrith 794 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Cumbria
Send the postcode and the rough footprint. We come back with what the roof can carry, what it would generate against your consumption, and what the funding routes look like.