Specialist solar panels for schools in Sa1 Waterfront
What decides a solar scheme at a Sa1 Waterfront school is how much of the output the site uses itself, not how much the roof makes. The survey records sheet type, remaining life, purlin spacing and the state of the incoming supply, and the model runs off your own meter data rather than an average.
Book a roof survey in Sa1 Waterfront- 1 teaching block
- 2 hall and kitchen
- 3 sports hall
- 4 1960s block, no array
- first phase
- later phase
Illustrative layout for an estate of this size. The array is drawn at about 345 kWp, roughly 53 percent of the 650 kWp these three roofs would hold, because a school sizes to the load it can use in term time rather than to the roof it has: generation it cannot use is exported at a much lower rate than it pays to import. The hatched block carries no array because its structure has not been assessed, which on a school of that era is the usual starting point rather than an exception. Your own figures, and which of your blocks can take an array, come from the roof survey.
Solar PV for academy trusts across Swansea
We model output for Sa1 Waterfront from the same source we use everywhere, EU PVGIS v5.2, and where a town has no modelled figure in the dataset we take it from the survey rather than publish an estimate.
Sa1 Waterfront ranks 0 of 4 towns we cover in Swansea on modelled yield, against a national mean of 886 kWh per kWp. The county runs from 881 to 921, a spread of 40 kWh per kWp. Within Swansea that difference is small enough to ignore: where the building sits is not what decides this scheme, your consumption pattern is.
The planning position for Sa1 Waterfront schools
Sa1 Waterfront and the area around it has no education solar entry in the Renewable Energy Planning Database. Almost no school array is large enough to be captured there reliably, so the absence tells you about the reporting threshold and very little about what is already on the roofs around Sa1 Waterfront.
Grid connection through National Grid Electricity Distribution
National Grid Electricity Distribution is the network operator here, and their answer on export capacity shapes the design. Any commercial array above 3.68 kW per phase connects under G99 rather than G98, and the application fixes what you are allowed to push back onto the network. If the local network is tight, limiting export rarely breaks the case here: most of the generation is consumed on site while the building is working.
Send us the school postcode
Roof condition decides the order of works on most school estates, so that is where we start. Send us the postcode and a rough roof area, with twelve months of half hourly readings if you have them, and we come back with usable area, modelled output against your own load, and the funding routes.
Lenzie Consulting Ltd arranges the survey and passes your details to an MCS-certified installation partner so they can quote. We do not carry out the installation ourselves.
What Sa1 Waterfront trusts ask before a survey
- Will the network around Sa1 Waterfront accept the export?
- National Grid Electricity Distribution is the distribution network operator for Swansea. Anything above 3.68 kW per phase connects under G99, and the application fixes the export limit. On a school site the incoming supply is often the binding constraint rather than the roof, so we ask that question before anyone sizes an array.