Solar panels for schools across Northamptonshire
We survey school and college roofs throughout Northamptonshire, 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
- 331
- 123,526 pupils, DfE Get Information About Schools
- Modelled yield
- 895 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Northamptonshire towns, EU PVGIS v5.2
- School solar on record
- 0 schemes
- Renewable Energy Planning Database Q1 2026, in 0 of the towns we cover
- Network operator
- National Grid Electricity Distribution
- G99 applications and export limits
- Towns covered
- 7
- Surveys arranged county wide
The school estate in Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire has 331 open state-funded schools and colleges teaching 123,526 pupils, spread across 2 local authorities. Source: DfE Get Information About Schools.
Of those, 267 primary, 45 secondary, 17 special and 2 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.
School rooftop solar and what a Northamptonshire roof models
Modelled yield is consistent across Northamptonshire, from 890 kWh per kWp a year at Daventry to 900 at Rushden. 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 Northamptonshire planning record
No school or college solar scheme appears for the Northamptonshire towns we cover in the Renewable Energy Planning Database. That reflects the reporting threshold rather than an empty county: the database captures generating stations from one megawatt upward reliably, and a school array is a fraction of that. 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.
- Northampton 893 kWh/kWp
- Corby 892 kWh/kWp
- Kettering 895 kWh/kWp
- Wellingborough 896 kWh/kWp
- Rushden 900 kWh/kWp
- Daventry 890 kWh/kWp
- Towcester 897 kWh/kWp
Book a roof survey at a Northamptonshire 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.