This site exists to answer one question properly: does solar make financial sense on your warehouse? We publish sourced, dated cost, grant and compliance data for the UK warehouse and logistics estate — from last-mile delivery depots to mega-distribution centres, port warehouses to cold-chain logistics — and match serious enquiries to MCS-certified commercial installers with genuine warehouse experience. No installer agenda, no commission bias towards any one supplier.
Why we focus on warehouses
UK warehouses represent the largest underused renewable energy resource in the country — over 600 million square feet of clear-span steel-portal roof estate, ideally suited for rooftop PV. Modern logistics buildings combine three economic factors that make warehouse solar uniquely attractive: large clear roofs (3,000–18,000 sqm typical); strong daytime electrical baseload from MHE, conveyor, refrigeration, and lighting (driving 70–95% self-consumption); and intense customer Scope 3 pressure from Amazon, Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's, Unilever and the rest of the FTSE retail estate. The combination produces 4–6 year typical paybacks and IRRs comfortably into the 20s.
Who runs this site
This site is published by SEO Dons Ltd (Director: Donovan Fawcett) as part of a specialist commercial solar information network. We are not an installer. Our job is the research and the matching: keeping the rate, grant and compliance data on these pages sourced and current, modelling warehouse solar economics realistically, and connecting projects with vetted MCS-certified commercial installers. Content is reviewed against published sources — Ofgem, GOV.UK, DNO documentation and supplier tariff pages — and each dated figure carries its review date.
How the process works
It starts with a free desk feasibility from 12 months of half-hourly meter data and a roof drawing. The modelling covers indicative system size, generation forecast, self-consumption profile, financial DCF, and the recommended financing route, delivered within 7 working days. If the numbers work, we introduce your project to MCS-certified commercial installers suited to your sub-sector and scale; they carry out the structural and electrical survey, produce a fixed-price proposal, manage the G99 grid connection, and hand over an audit-ready customer pack supporting CDP Supply Chain, EcoVadis, and retailer-specific verification programmes.
What we check before recommending an installer
- MCS certification — verifiable at mcscertified.com
- NICEIC or equivalent electrical registration — verifiable at niceic.com
- Insurance-backed workmanship warranty — 10-year cover that survives even if the installer ceases trading
- Commercial-scale track record — G99 connections, structural sign-off, and sprinkler-compliant layouts at warehouse scale
- Half-hourly-data modelling — quotes built from your actual demand profile, not per-sqft guesswork
Who this site is for
The guidance here is written for the people who actually sign off warehouse solar: 3PL operations and estates directors, retailer-owned RDC energy managers, parcel and last-mile network property teams, manufacturing and cold-storage owner-occupiers, and institutional landlords weighing tenant solar requests. The sub-sector pages cover distribution, fulfilment, cold chain, last-mile, port and manufacturing warehousing in the depth those decisions need.
Why we're different
Most solar marketing starts from the answer and works backwards. We start from the numbers. Three commitments shape every page: (1) economics are modelled from realistic half-hourly demand assumptions, and quotes are only worth having when built from your actual meter data; (2) every dated rate, grant or deadline on this site is sourced and carries a review date; (3) if your warehouse doesn't suit solar — wrong roof, wrong load profile, wrong lease position — we say so plainly rather than push a project that won't deliver.