Solar panels for schools across Warwickshire

The school estate in Warwickshire

Warwickshire has 222 open state-funded schools and colleges teaching 79,164 pupils, spread across 4 local authorities. Source: DfE Get Information About Schools.

Of those, 175 primary, 34 secondary, 10 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.

School rooftop solar and what a Warwickshire roof models

Modelled yield is not flat across Warwickshire. Stratford-upon-Avon comes out at 893 kWh per kWp a year against 866 at Bedworth, a spread of 27 kWh per kWp. On a 290 kWp school array that difference is about 7,830 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 Warwickshire planning record

The Renewable Energy Planning Database records 2 school and college solar schemes in Warwickshire, all of them at Nuneaton. They include North Warwickshire College, Hinckley Road at Nuneaton. The median array applied for is 290 kWp.

We were not involved in any of those schemes. They are public planning records, and they are 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.