Fareham is the closest borough to our Eastleigh base and one of the best-positioned for solar in the whole region — 1,117 kWh per kWp a year, third only to Chichester and Portsmouth. It's also a coastal borough with tidal flood risk and designated Coastal Change Management Areas, which shapes where equipment can sensibly go.
A south-facing Fareham roof at around 35° generates roughly 1,117 kWh per year for every kWp installed — about 4,470 kWh from a 4 kWp array. That's 8% better than Winchester and 9% better than Guildford for an identical system, purely on location.
The Solent coast does well: open southern aspect, low latitude for the UK, and comparatively little of the dense mature tree cover that shades inland suburbs through the afternoon.
Our office is in Eastleigh, about twenty minutes from Fareham town centre, and our phone number is a Fareham 01329 code. This is not an outlying pin on a national coverage map — it's the area our engineers drive through daily.
| Town | kWh per kWp / year |
|---|---|
| Chichester | 1,175 |
| Portsmouth | 1,124 |
| Fareham | 1,117 |
| Bournemouth | 1,100 |
| Poole | 1,097 |
| Southampton | 1,080 |
| Salisbury | 1,046 |
| Winchester | 1,038 |
| Andover | 1,037 |
| Basingstoke | 1,031 |
| Guildford | 1,023 |
Source: European Commission PVGIS (v5.2), south-facing, 35° pitch, 14% system losses. Your own figure will differ with shading, pitch, orientation and roof area — the survey gives you a property-specific number, not this one.
Fareham Borough Council is the planning authority for the entire borough. Unlike Winchester or Chichester there's no National Park boundary and no National Landscape — which makes Fareham one of the more straightforward places we work, jurisdictionally.
Fareham's local plan states plainly that "the Borough's coastal location results in some areas being affected by tidal flooding", and designates Coastal Change Management Areas under Policy CC3, with development required to respect those areas and land prone to severe flood risk.
Along the Hamble at Warsash, around Swanwick Shore and on the Portchester and Cams shoreline, this is a genuine design input. Rooftop solar is largely unaffected. A ground-level heat pump, its condensate drain, and any battery or inverter in a low garage are not.
Fareham is in SSEN's SEPD area. The process depends entirely on system size.
Fareham town, Titchfield, Warsash, Portchester, Sarisbury Green, Locks Heath, Park Gate, Whiteley, Stubbington and Hill Head. Every installation is MCS accredited.
Aiko ABC panels sized to your roof and your consumption. With Fareham's yield among the best in the region, a well-oriented roof here reaches a payback position sooner than the same system twenty miles inland — we'll show you the property-specific figure rather than a regional average.
Solar panels →Grant, Midea and Daikin, designed to measured heat loss. The 1970s and 80s estates across Locks Heath and Park Gate tend to suit heat pumps well — reasonable insulation, sensible pipework and space outside for a unit. We survey rather than assume.
Heat pumps →Tesla Powerwall 3, Fox ESS and SigenEnergy. With a strong summer yield, a battery here spends less of the year working hard to cover the evening and more of it banking genuine surplus — which changes the sizing conversation.
Battery storage →About 1,117 kWh per year for every kWp installed, on a south-facing roof pitched at around 35 degrees, according to the European Commission's PVGIS dataset — roughly 4,470 kWh from a 4 kWp array. That is the third-best figure across the eleven towns we cover, about 8% better than Winchester and 9% better than Guildford for an identical system.
Usually not. Fareham Borough Council is the planning authority for the whole borough, and there is no National Park or National Landscape here, which makes it more straightforward than Winchester or Chichester. The exception is the borough's 13 conservation areas — Cams Hall, Catisfield, Fareham High Street, Hook, Osborn Road, Portchester Castle Street, Sarisbury Green, Swanwick Shore, Titchfield, Titchfield Abbey, Town Quay, Wallington and Warsash — where panels on a slope forming the principal elevation and fronting a highway need permission. The borough also has 438 listed buildings and structures, which need listed building consent separately.
It affects siting rather than whether you can have one. Fareham's local plan records that the borough's coastal location results in some areas being affected by tidal flooding, and designates Coastal Change Management Areas. Rooftop solar is largely unaffected. For a heat pump we look at where the outdoor unit, its condensate run and the electrical isolation sit, and we keep inverters and batteries above any known water line — sometimes that means a wall bracket rather than a ground plinth.
Generally they are among the easier properties we work on. Houses built from the 1970s onward tend to have cavity walls, reasonable insulation and enough external space for an outdoor unit, which means the system can often run at a low flow temperature without major emitter changes. That said, we calculate heat loss room by room for every property rather than assuming a build era guarantees a result.
Fareham is in SSEN's SEPD area. Up to 3.68 kW per phase the G98 process applies with no wait — we install, commission and notify SSEN within 28 days. Above that a G99 application must be approved first, with SSEN carrying out a network study and issuing a connection quote. SSEN also requires prior approval where the same installer has connected generation at another property in the same postcode area within the previous 28 days, which comes up regularly on the newer estates where neighbours tend to follow each other.
Our office is in Eastleigh, about twenty minutes from Fareham town centre, and our phone number is a Fareham 01329 code. Fareham is one of the areas our engineers drive through daily rather than an outer edge of a coverage map.
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Our office is in Eastleigh and our number is a Fareham 01329 code. This is home territory.
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We will give you a property-specific generation figure rather than a regional average, check your conservation area and coastal position, and work out where the equipment should go.
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