Could University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff go solar?
In Cardiff, the University Hospital of Wales runs day and night, so power made on its own roof would be used more or less as it lands. Its broad flat decks cover about 28,700 square metres — enough, we estimate, for roughly 4.4 MW of solar and some 11,000 panels. That points to an estimated 3.7 to 4.4 million kWh a year, on paper matching around 1,500 homes.
Roof area read from above: ~28,711 m²on a 29,911 m² building footprint.Imagery dated 2025-05-14.
Full methodology, assumptions and cross-checks: how we measure. Includes solar data from Google.
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