Warehouse solar panels across Dorset
We survey industrial and distribution roofs throughout Dorset, model what each one can carry, and arrange the design, the grid application and the install through our MCS-certified partner.
- Modelled yield
- 971 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Dorset towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- Network operator
- Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks
- G99 applications and export limits
- Solar on record
- 149 schemes / 1078 MW
- REPD Q1 2026, 47 operational
- Towns covered
- 7
- Surveys arranged county wide
What the data says about Dorset
Modelled yield is not flat across Dorset. Weymouth comes out at 1006 kWh per kWp a year against 924 at Sherborne, a spread of 82 kWh per kWp. On a 500 kWp array that difference is about 41,000 kWh a year, which is worth checking before you accept a generic saving figure.
The larger roofs in Dorset follow the freight routes. Across the towns we cover that means A31, A338, A35, A350 and A3049, which is where single-let distribution stock concentrates.
The government's planning database records 149 solar schemes in Dorset totalling 1078 MW, of which 47 are already operational and 10 of the schemes in our covered postcode districts are roof mounted. Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q1 2026.
Connections across the county run through Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks. 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.
- Bournemouth 971 kWh/kWp
- Poole 965 kWh/kWp
- Weymouth 1006 kWh/kWp
- Christchurch 981 kWh/kWp
- Dorchester 985 kWh/kWp
- Bridport 971 kWh/kWp
- Sherborne 924 kWh/kWp
- Wimborne 964 kWh/kWp
Book a survey in Dorset
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.