Main photo voltaic power options supplier Push Energy Ltd together with international actual property companies agency Cushman & Wakefield and London-based property regulation agency Forsters LLP are supporting the British Property Federation’s (BPF) new analysis to unlock the potential of business buildings in supporting the UK’s photo voltaic power ambitions.
Business buildings – comparable to places of work, retails parks, logistic centres and warehouses – have a key function to play within the era of photo voltaic power and serving to meet the Authorities’s power safety and renewable power targets. Research counsel that warehouses alone have the roof area for as much as 15GW of recent solar energy. Nonetheless, lower than 5% of business and industrial rooftops are geared up with photo voltaic installations.
To know why, the BPF has commissioned Cushman & Wakefield to look at the boundaries to deploying photo voltaic at scale and assist kick begin a rooftop revolution for the UK’s business property sector, supported by main Push Energy Ltd along with Forsters LLP.
Specialists in constructing investment-grade floor and roof-mounted tasks and over a decade’s observe report of designing, creating and putting in bespoke photo voltaic PV and battery tasks, Push Energy’s consumer portfolio consists of Centrica Enterprise Options, delivering photo voltaic options for the corporate’s shoppers together with David Lloyd Leisure Golf equipment and Gressingham Meals. Push Energy is because of full Rolleston Park Farm, a 19-hectare photo voltaic farm that may export 12MW of renewable power to the grid. Final November, Push Energy Ltd began development on the Park Hill website close to Arbroath, a greenfield asset anticipated to energy roughly 4,300 common UK houses and keep away from circa 2,400 tonnes of CO2 each year. Push Energy’s portfolio moreover consists of Silverstone’s “The Wing” plus Amazon distribution centres and Tesco shops nationwide.
The BPF analysis will:
– study the alternatives for actual property buyers, builders and property homeowners and discover the important thing components driving adoption
– spotlight the obstacles and sensible challenges dealing with the sector
– accumulate business insights and showcase examples of innovation and finest observe; and
– set out a sequence of coverage suggestions for Authorities and business.
The outcomes of the analysis will probably be printed in late Spring 2026.
Push Energy Ltd Managing Director Andy Khan mentioned:
“Because the British Property Federation’s founding member within the photo voltaic renewable power sector, Push Energy is dedicated to supporting the federation’s work round sustainability. By means of sharing insights and expertise and supporting this very important analysis into photo voltaic power options sought by business actual property buyers, Push Energy commits to taking an energetic function to assist ship a web zero carbon UK property sector.”
Rob Wall, Assistant Director, on the BPF mentioned:
“Business buildings have a essential function to play within the era of solar energy however the sector isn’t delivering on its potential. If Authorities is critical about power safety and assembly its renewable power targets, we’d like a coverage setting that makes it simpler and extra enticing for business actual property buyers and builders to put in photo voltaic at scale. Our analysis goals to offer policymakers and the broader business with the insights and proof to realize this.””
Victoria Towers, Head of Business Actual Property, at Forsters LLP mentioned:
“Our shoppers are wanting to play their half within the UK’s transition to cleaner power, however too typically they face a spread of business, authorized and sensible boundaries when looking for to put in photo voltaic panelling. This analysis is a crucial step in figuring out the important thing points and suggesting sensible options that may hopefully give property homeowners and builders the readability and confidence they should unlock the complete potential of their rooftops.”
