Solar panels for schools across Tyne and Wear
We survey school and college roofs throughout Tyne and Wear, 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
- 337
- 121,468 pupils, DfE Get Information About Schools
- Modelled yield
- 831 kWh/kWp/yr
- Mean across Tyne and Wear 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
- Northern Powergrid
- G99 applications and export limits
- Towns covered
- 5
- Surveys arranged county wide
The school estate in Tyne and Wear
Tyne and Wear has 337 open state-funded schools and colleges teaching 121,468 pupils, spread across 4 local authorities. Source: DfE Get Information About Schools.
Of those, 261 primary, 51 secondary, 22 special and 3 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 Tyne and Wear roof models
Modelled yield is not flat across Tyne and Wear. Sunderland comes out at 849 kWh per kWp a year against 806 at Newcastle, a spread of 43 kWh per kWp. On a 280 kWp school array that difference is about 12,040 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 Tyne and Wear planning record
No school or college solar scheme appears for the Tyne and Wear 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 Northern Powergrid. 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.
- Sunderland 849 kWh/kWp
- Gateshead 822 kWh/kWp
- South Shields 849 kWh/kWp
- Washington 828 kWh/kWp
- Newcastle 806 kWh/kWp
- North Shields 833 kWh/kWp
Book a roof survey at a Tyne and Wear 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.