The North East is still a place that makes things. The car plant at Sunderland and its suppliers around Washington, engineering and manufacturing firms on the big County Durham business parks, process, chemical and engineering businesses on Teesside, and farms across Durham and Northumberland all use most of their power during the working day. Plenty of them own their sites. BrightEdge Solar designs and installs commercial solar PV and battery storage for factories, warehouses, farms and public buildings across the North East. We’re based in Beverley, East Yorkshire, and travel nationally for larger commercial projects.
Presses, robots, compressors, extraction, process plant and lighting all run while the sun is up. Every unit you generate and use on site is a unit you don't buy at full price.
Modern portal-frame units on the A1, A19 and A66 estates often have plenty of usable roof.
From first call to aftercare
Initial call: we look at your bills and, ideally, half-hourly data. Desktop design: satellite imagery and mapping give us an initial layout and estimate, often before we visit.
Site survey: roof, structure, electrical supply, existing G99 approvals and access. Proposal: final design, expected generation, costs and timescale.
G99 application: we submit and track it, along with any planning application. Installation and commissioning: MCS-compliant, planned around your busy periods.
Remote monitoring, plus optional annual maintenance to MCS MIS3002.
Initial call: we look at your bills and, ideally, half-hourly data. Desktop design: satellite imagery and mapping give us an initial layout and estimate, often before we visit.
Site survey: roof, structure, electrical supply, existing G99 approvals and access. Proposal: final design, expected generation, costs and timescale.
G99 application: we submit and track it, along with any planning application. Installation and commissioning: MCS-compliant, planned around your busy periods.
Remote monitoring, plus optional annual maintenance to MCS MIS3002.
See our recent projects
Whitley Bay, NE25
Army Cadet hut
27.6 kWp of solar: 60 LONGi panels. Installed July 2026.
Hetton-le-Hole, DH5
Primary school mobile classrooms
12.1 kWp of JA Solar panels on the school’s mobile classrooms. Installed July 2025.
Solar panels for schools →Factories and engineering firms. Automotive suppliers, fabricators, precision engineers, plastics, food producers and process businesses in Sunderland, Washington, Newton Aycliffe, Durham, Stockton, Billingham, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Gateshead.
Warehouses and logistics. Distribution and trade units on the A1(M) and A19 corridors and around the Tees and Tyne ports. See warehouse and industrial solar.
Farms and rural estates. Livestock and arable farms, stores and estate workshops across County Durham, the Tees Valley and Northumberland. See agricultural solar for farm roofs and land.
Schools and academies. Daytime use during term matches generation well. We plan work around the school calendar.
Churches and charities. Halls, community buildings and charity premises. We give trustees plain figures for their committee.
Public sector. Council, NHS and emergency-service buildings, depots and leisure sites. We hold CHAS accreditation, which public bodies and main contractors often ask for. See office and public sector solar.
Churches and church halls. See solar panels for churches, including grants and faculty permission.
Including on systems installed by other firms: inspection, fixing and re-certifying non-compliant systems, and ongoing maintenance.
Yes. We cover Teesside, County Durham, Sunderland, Tyneside and Northumberland from our base in Beverley, and we install commercial systems across the UK.
Northern Powergrid, the same company that runs the network in Hull and East Yorkshire. We handle the G99 application with them, which typically adds 8–12 weeks before installation.
Yes. We work to your site inductions, permits and RAMS, and if you or your customer has an approved-equipment list, we can design the system around it.
We design the fixings and layout for the site’s exposure, as we did at Woodsmith Mine near Whitby, where we used a low-ballast flat-roof system designed for a high-wind location. We check the roof structure and condition first.
Typically about £17,000–£21,000 for 30 kWp, £28,000–£37,000 for 50 kWp and £50,000–£65,000 for 100 kWp, excluding VAT. Systems of 150 kWp and above are typically about £420–£650 per kWp. Book a free survey for an accurate quote.
Many rooftop systems on commercial buildings fall under permitted development, subject to conditions and size limits. Ground-mounted arrays are more likely to need planning permission, and listed buildings and protected areas can need extra checks. We’ll check for your site and apply if it’s needed.