Could The Trafford Centre go solar?
Few roofs in Britain are bigger than this. The Trafford Centre near Manchester spreads a vast single-storey super-mall deck — acres of flat and shallow roof, roughly 58,000 sqm — over its shops. Cover it and about 21,000 panels (around 8.6 MW) could produce an estimated 6.1–7.5 million kWh a year, in the region of 2,500 homes' worth. Only a survey settles the detail.
Roof area read from above: ~57,924 m²on a 94,215 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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