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Could Tesco Extra Brislington go solar?

On Callington Road in Brislington, this standalone Tesco Extra covers a large low-pitch retail roof of about 10,300 sqm on Bristol's south-east side. We measured roughly 4,200 panels, around 1.69 MW, for an estimated 1.4–1.7 million kWh a year — comparable to some 570 homes. A survey would confirm the roof area worth using.

Tesco Extra on Callington Road in Brislington, a broad low-pitched roof with the store's car park wrapped around it on Bristol's edge.
Roof capacity
1.7 MWp
~4,222 panels at full fit
Annual generation
1.4 GWh–1.7 GWh
across the whole roof
Could power
~573
average UK homes
CO₂ saved
~742 t
per year, at full capacity

Roof area read from above: ~10,292 m²on a 9,029 m² building footprint.Imagery dated 2024-07-31.

Full methodology, assumptions and cross-checks: how we measure. Includes solar data from Google.

Morning sun on the rooftop solar panels of a red-brick UK semi-detached home

That was someone else's roof.

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