Solar PV and battery storage for businesses, farms and estates across the East Riding
BrightEdge Solar is a commercial solar installer based on Swinemoor Lane in Beverley, in the middle of the East Riding. We design and install rooftop and ground-mounted solar PV and battery storage for businesses, farms and community buildings from the Humber to the coast and the Wolds. We’re CHAS Elite accredited, MCS certified (NIC-601602) and a RECC member, and we handle the Northern Powergrid G99 application for you.
The East Riding's economy is built on farms, food production, manufacturing, logistics and tourism. Most of these use the bulk of their electricity in daylight hours, so most of the solar generated is used on site rather than exported.
Many rural businesses have a paddock or field corner as well as a roof. Ground-mounted arrays can be angled for the best yield and kept clear of working buildings.
Power you generate yourself isn't exposed to future grid price rises.
Beverley is within easy reach of the whole county for surveys and aftercare visits.
CHAS Elite accredited · MCS certified · RECC member
The East Riding is a big, mostly rural county. Its commercial sites fall into a handful of clear areas.
These sites are mostly modern portal-frame units, offices and light-industrial space, many of them leased. If you rent your unit, you’ll need landlord consent. A Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) can work where neither party wants to fund the system upfront.
Goole is the East Riding’s port town and logistics hub. Capitol Park at junction 36 of the M62 sits alongside the docks, with the large distribution and manufacturing units that go with them. Howden and Snaith add food, agricultural and engineering businesses along the M62. Big sheds here can often take large arrays, so the grid connection is usually the first thing we check.
Market towns with their own industrial estates, such as Kelleythorpe at Driffield and the estate at Pocklington, surrounded by arable and livestock farms. We see grain stores, machinery sheds, poultry and pig units, packhouses and farm diversification such as holiday lets and farm shops. Asbestos-cement and fibre-cement roofs are common on older farm buildings, so we check the roof before anything else.
Bridlington‘s industrial estates, including Carnaby, serve the town’s engineering, food and tourism businesses. Caravan parks, hotels and guesthouses along the coast have strong summer daytime demand. On exposed coastal sites we design fixings and layouts for the wind loads, and check the roof’s condition and structure first.
Hedon and Paull on the Humber bank, Withernsea and the Holderness villages. Here a mix of industrial units, garages and workshops, farms and community buildings all work well with solar.
Don’t see your town? We cover the whole East Riding: HU10–HU20, YO15, YO16 and YO25 (Bridlington and Driffield), YO42 and YO43 (Pocklington and Market Weighton) and DN14 (Goole and Howden). For businesses inside the city, see commercial solar in Hull.
A few recent installs across the county. Full details are in each case study.
The whole East Riding, like Hull, is on Northern Powergrid’s Yorkshire network. Most commercial systems need G99 approval from Northern Powergrid before they can be connected. We prepare and submit the application, deal with any questions and track it through. This typically adds 8–12 weeks before installation, so we apply as early as possible.
Rural parts of the Wolds and Holderness are often served by longer, lower-capacity lines. If the export Northern Powergrid can accept is limited, we design around it:
There’s no national grant that any business can apply to for solar panels. Local support changes often, so we check what’s live for your postcode when we quote.
We’ll run the grant paperwork with you: technical details, quotes and generation forecasts. See solar panel grants for businesses.
Typical installed costs and payback are on our commercial solar page. We model payback from your own half-hourly data rather than quoting a headline figure.
Yes. We’re based in Beverley and cover the whole county: Goole and Howden in the west, Bridlington and Hornsea on the coast, Driffield and Pocklington on the Wolds, and Hedon and Withernsea in Holderness.
Northern Powergrid, on its Yorkshire network. G99 approval typically adds 8–12 weeks before installation. We submit and track the application for you.
Often, yes. We installed on an asbestos farm shed at North Dalton. We check the roof’s condition first and use fixings suited to the sheeting. If the roof needs replacing, it can make sense to re-clad and fit solar at the same time.
Yes. A ground mount suits sites with spare land and a weak or shaded roof. Planning rules for ground-mounted arrays differ from rooftop ones, so we check what applies to your site and prepare the information with you.
Local funding changes often. Invest East Yorkshire Business Support and the HEY Growth Hub list what’s currently available. Business rates relief, capital allowances and the Smart Export Guarantee apply nationally. We check what’s live when we quote.
Yes. Coastal hospitality sites use the most power in the summer, when solar generates most. A battery can carry the surplus into the evening, as at Burton Lodge in Brandesburton. We design fixings for exposed sites.
Send us your address and recent bills (or half-hourly data if you have it). We’ll come back with an initial layout and estimate, then arrange a site survey.
BrightEdge Solar Ltd, Colonial House, Swinemoor Lane, Beverley HU17 0LS · 01482 765063 · info@brightedgesolar.com