Could Southmead Hospital (Brunel Building), Bristol go solar?
The Brunel building at Southmead Hospital opened in 2014 as a single large acute block, and its flat roof runs to nearly 25,000 square metres. In Bristol's roughly 1,040 hours of yearly sun, we estimate that could support around 3.4 MW of solar and some 8,400 panels — an estimated 2.7 to 3.3 million kWh a year. As a working hospital, it would use the output as it comes. On-paper figures.
Roof area read from above: ~24,860 m²on a 37,371 m² building footprint.Imagery dated 2024-07-31.
Full methodology, assumptions and cross-checks: how we measure. Includes solar data from Google.
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