Could Liverpool Cathedral go solar?
Liverpool Cathedral is the largest cathedral in Britain, and its steep sandstone-flanked roofs over the nave and choir cover close to 7,700 sq m. Run the estimate and you reach roughly 1.1 MW — about 2,660 panels and 770,000–940,000 kWh a year. As twentieth-century heritage fabric on this scale, it's a measured figure, not a serious proposition for panels.
Roof area read from above: ~7,676 m²on a 8,790 m² building footprint.Imagery dated 2024-06-20.
Full methodology, assumptions and cross-checks: how we measure. Includes solar data from Google.
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