Solar panels for schools across Buckinghamshire

The school estate in Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire has 233 open state-funded schools and colleges teaching 89,335 pupils, spread across 1 local authorities. Source: DfE Get Information About Schools.

Of those, 184 primary, 37 secondary, 11 special and 1 further education. The phase mix is what sets the usable roof area across a county: secondary sites and colleges carry the sports halls, dining blocks and flat roofs, while primaries offer a hall and a teaching block each and suit arrays sized to the base load.

Solar for education buildings and what a Buckinghamshire roof models

Modelled yield is consistent across Buckinghamshire, from 881 kWh per kWp a year at Aylesbury to 904 at Marlow. At that spread, where the school stands is not what decides the scheme. The timetable is. Source: EU PVGIS v5.2.

Every town page below carries the same arithmetic for that town, including the share of the year that lands in July and August, which is the number a governing body should see before a saving figure.

Solar PV for academy trusts on the Buckinghamshire planning record

The Renewable Energy Planning Database records 1 school and college solar scheme in Buckinghamshire, at Aylesbury. It is Aylesbury College Decarbonisation, applied for by Aylesbury College. The median array applied for is 540 kWp.

We were not involved in that scheme. It is a public planning record, and it is here because what a local authority and a network operator have already accepted for one school is the best available guide to what they will accept for the next. 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 on a school site the incoming supply and the size of the existing main switchboard are often the real constraint rather than the roof.