Solar panels for schools across Gloucestershire
We survey school and college roofs throughout Gloucestershire, model what each one carries against the school's own consumption, and arrange the design, the grid application and the installation through an MCS-certified partner.
- Schools and colleges
- 298
- 93,176 pupils, DfE Get Information About Schools
- Modelled yield
- 885 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Gloucestershire towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- School solar on record
- 1 scheme
- Renewable Energy Planning Database Q1 2026, in 1 of the towns we cover
- Network operator
- National Grid Electricity Distribution
- G99 applications and export limits
- Towns covered
- 6
- Surveys arranged county wide
The school estate in Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire has 298 open state-funded schools and colleges teaching 93,176 pupils, spread across 6 local authorities. Source: DfE Get Information About Schools.
Of those, 241 primary, 41 secondary, 12 special and 4 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 Gloucestershire roof models
Modelled yield is not flat across Gloucestershire. Lydney comes out at 905 kWh per kWp a year against 870 at Gloucester, a spread of 35 kWh per kWp. On a 160 kWp school array that difference is about 5,600 kWh a year, which is worth checking before anyone accepts a county-wide saving figure. 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 Gloucestershire planning record
The Renewable Energy Planning Database records 1 school and college solar scheme in Gloucestershire, at Cheltenham. It is Ladies College Swimming Pool, Malvern Road, applied for by Ladies College Swimming Pool. The median array applied for is 160 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 National Grid Electricity Distribution. 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.
- Gloucester 870 kWh/kWp
- Cheltenham 1 on record
- Stroud 887 kWh/kWp
- Cirencester 892 kWh/kWp
- Tewkesbury 878 kWh/kWp
- Lydney 905 kWh/kWp
Book a roof survey at a Gloucestershire school
Send the school postcode and the rough roof area, with half hourly meter data if the trust holds it. We come back with what the roofs carry, what they generate against the timetable rather than against an annual average, and how schools pay for it.
Lenzie Consulting Ltd arranges the survey and introduces an MCS-certified installation partner. We do not install, and nothing on this page is a guarantee of a saving.