Could Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham go solar?
Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a modern super-hospital, and above its ward blocks sit large flat plant decks — the kind of roof solar tends to favour. We estimate those roughly 26,000 square metres could carry around 3.8 MW, close to 9,400 panels, for an estimated 3.0 to 3.6 million kWh a year, most of it used on site around the clock. Full-roof figures, not a promise.
Roof area read from above: ~25,950 m²on a 14,942 m² building footprint.Imagery dated 2022-05-14.
Full methodology, assumptions and cross-checks: how we measure. Includes solar data from Google.
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