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Commercial solar, West Yorkshire

Commercial solar panels for West Yorkshire units, offices, shops and farms

Your electricity bill sets the size, the MCS-certified installation team fits it, and the daytime power you already buy pays it back. Covering Leeds, Wakefield, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax and the estates between them.

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Stock aerial image of industrial unit roofs carrying rows of solar panels
Stock image of a flat commercial roof full of solar panels, illustrating commercial solar in West Yorkshire
Library photo. A flat unit roof holds far more panels than a house, and the business below uses the power as it is made.
What you get

Solar makes most sense on a business roof

Most of a house’s solar gets exported because everyone is out. A farm shop outside Wetherby, a workshop in Elland or a warehouse at Thorpe Park does the opposite and draws power while the roof makes it. So commercial arrays tend to pay back in around 5 years, against ten for a home.

Our job is the enquiry, a first look at your roof and bill, and booking the site survey. The MCS-certified installation team has over 10 years and hundreds of installs behind them. Your half-hourly data sets the size, and they deal with Northern Powergrid and do the install.

What every commercial job covers

Free site survey
The roof, the structure, the distribution board and any half-hourly data you have, all worked around your day.
Sized from your bill
The array is matched to a sensible slice of your daytime demand. Filling a roof because it fits is how firms overspend.
MCS-certified installation
The MCS-certified installation team fits and commissions it and deals with the Northern Powergrid application.
Monitoring
A dashboard showing generation and consumption, so the person who approved the spend can check the saving month by month.
Work around your hours
Roof work fits around your operation, and most jobs involve no downtime at all.
Documents for your files
MCS certificate, commissioning records and the figures your accountant wants for capital allowances.
Why the sums favour a business

Your working day and the solar day overlap

80%

of the output gets used on site

Daytime trading lines up with generation, so little goes out to the grid.

46 kW

for a unit with a £1,500 monthly bill

Around 39,100 kWh a year, enough for about half the building’s demand.

~5 yrs

typical payback

Panels last around 25 years, which leaves a long run of electricity that costs you nothing.

Indicative, as of 6 November 2026. The sums use 850 kWh per kW a year, a 28p business unit rate, 80% of output used by day and 8p for exports. Your written quote replaces every figure here once the site survey is done.

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What would it save you?

Three taps, nothing to fill in. Set up for Leeds and West Yorkshire roofs and today’s price cap.

Who is it for?

£1,500
£500£5,000+

Businesses use electricity in daylight, while the panels generate. More of the solar cuts the bill directly, which is why payback is short.

Estimated saving a year

£8,446

at today’s prices, or £211,140 over 25 years

Used on site: 80%Exported: 20%
System
46 kW
Generates
35,190 kWh
Exported
7,038 kWh
Get my real figures, free

Indicative. Assumes 850 kWh per kW a year, a business unit rate of 28p, 80% daytime self-use and 8p export. Bill savings only, flat prices. Your figures are confirmed in a free survey.

We make the call. The installers climb the roof.

We take the enquiry, check it stacks up and book the survey. The MCS-certified installation team does the survey, the quote and the fitting. Nothing to pay until you accept a fixed quote.

  1. You

    Step 1: You send the form or ring us

    Five quick questions or a two-minute call. Your details are not sold on, and nobody keeps ringing you.

  2. AFL Solar

    Step 2: We ring and check the roof and the bill stack up

    Within one working day. We go through your roof, your tariff and your daytime load, then book the site survey for a time that suits the business.

  3. The installers

    Step 3: The survey and a fixed quote

    The roof, the structure, the distribution board and your bills, at a time that suits the business. There is no obligation.

  4. The installers

    Step 4: Install, commissioning and handover

    Planned around your operation. You finish with the MCS certificate, the monitoring login and the capital allowances paperwork.

Also from AFL Solar

Usually fitted together

One survey, one design, one point of contact for all of it.

What West Yorkshire businesses ask about solar

Not on the list? Ring the number at the top and a person will answer it.

What do commercial solar panels cost?
Commercial systems are priced per kW installed, and that rate falls as the system gets bigger, so a unit roof works out cheaper per panel than a house. Put your monthly bill into the calculator on this page and it sizes a system and shows the likely saving, using the assumptions in its note. Your quote after the site survey then replaces all of those numbers.
Why does a business pay back so much faster than a house?
A business runs in the daytime, which is when panels work. Expect 80% of the output to cut your bill directly, with the rest earning 8p. Big roofs also bring the cost per kW down. Picture a unit with a £1,500 monthly bill, using roughly 64,286 kWh a year. A 46 kW array meets about half of that, knocks around £9,384 a year off the bill and has paid for itself after about 5.1 years. A house needs ten or more.
Will our roof take the weight?
Most steel-framed units and modern flat roofs can carry an array, but that gets checked every time. The site survey includes a structural look at the roof, and if the numbers are tight a structural engineer signs it off before anything is ordered. Asbestos cement roofs, which you still find on older units in Bradford and Huddersfield, usually have to be replaced before panels go on, and the survey will say so.
How does the grid connection work?
Anything above 3.68 kW per phase needs a G99 application to Northern Powergrid, the network operator for all of West Yorkshire, before it can connect. The installer puts that in as part of the job. Northern Powergrid can take up to 45 working days to reply. Most replies come sooner, and the install gets scheduled around the answer.
Can a business get a grant or tax relief?
England has no cash grant for commercial solar. The help comes through tax. The Annual Investment Allowance gives 100% relief on qualifying plant up to £1 million a year, and companies can use the 50% first-year allowance on special-rate assets, which is where solar panels sit. Your accountant confirms how it applies to you, and the installer supplies the paperwork they ask for.
Can a battery or van chargers go in as well?
Yes, and they are best planned at the survey instead of bolted on later. A commercial battery shifts cheap or solar electricity into your expensive hours. The Workplace Charging Scheme may cover 75% of workplace EV chargers, capped at £500 a socket, and we confirm whether it can be claimed for you before you agree to anything. Either way, the vans get to charge off daytime generation.

What could your roof save the business?

It takes five questions. We call back within one working day to check the roof and the bill stack up, then we book the site survey.

Or just ring us

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Is this for your home or your business?

Takes about a minute. We call back within one working day.

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