Could Manchester Town Hall go solar?
Manchester Town Hall is the exception in this set — an ornate Victorian roofline rather than a flat modern deck, and its yield reflects that. Even so, we estimate its roughly 7,700 square metres of roof could carry around 1.2 MW of solar, some 2,900 panels, for an estimated 0.81 to 1.0 million kWh a year. Manchester's roughly 890 sun hours are modest, but a civic building's demand is steady. Theoretical, full-roof figures.
Roof area read from above: ~7,702 m²on a 4,521 m² building footprint.Imagery dated 2024-10-13.
Full methodology, assumptions and cross-checks: how we measure. Includes solar data from Google.
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