Commercial Solar Across London's Sectors
The roof sets the install price; the business under it sets the return. Three sector guides cover how solar performs on the capital's dominant commercial building types.
Offices
Daytime load matches generation hour for hour, and the EPC uplift speaks directly to MEES-exposed landlords. Typically 30–100kW.
Read the offices guide →Hotels
Seven-day occupancy and constant hot water push self-consumption to 85–95% — the best £/kWh conversion in the capital. Typically 50–150kW.
Read the hotels guide →Logistics & industrial
Park Royal to Greenwich Peninsula: London’s biggest roofs and best per-kWp pricing. 250–500kW+ where load justifies it.
Read the logistics & industrial guide →How to read the sector guides
Each guide answers the same four questions with London-specific numbers: what system size the building type typically supports, what share of generation gets used on-site, what that is worth at the capital's electricity rates, and which sector-specific obstacles — lease structures, planning context, operational constraints — need solving first. The physics is identical everywhere; the economics and the obstacles are not.
If your building doesn't fit neatly into one of the three — schools, healthcare, leisure, places of worship, mixed-use — the underlying analysis still applies, and the quote form handles any commercial property type. Two cross-cutting reads regardless of sector: what solar costs in London and the planning and roof-rights picture.
One number that unites every sector
Self-consumption percentage decides London paybacks more than any other variable. Export earns 4–12p/kWh in 2026; on-site use displaces grid power at 25–30p in much of the capital. A hotel using 95% of its generation gets nearly three times the value per panel of a five-day site exporting half. Every proposal we build models it from your actual half-hourly data — never from a sector average, including ours.