This site is an independent guide to solar PV for UK dairy farms. It is published by SEO Dons Ltd and it is not an installer: it does not design, supply, survey or install solar, and it holds none of the trade accreditations an installer would. A dairy unit draws power through milking, bulk-tank cooling, vacuum and water heating every day of the year, and a quote built on a generic commercial template misses that. The guides here start from the milking day and half-hourly meter data instead.
Why this site focuses on dairy
A milking herd does not clock off at night or shut down at weekends. The bulk tank cools after every milking, the vacuum pump and the water heating run around the parlour, and the load is steady across the year. That continuous baseload means much of what a roof generates in daylight is used on the farm instead of exported, which is the main driver of the economics. Sizing a dairy array well means understanding how a parlour or robot draws power across the day, not applying a kilowatt-per-square-metre rule of thumb.
How this site works
You can read the cost, grants and FAQ pages without sending anything. If you send an enquiry through the form it comes to SEO Dons Ltd, the publisher of this guide, and we reply by email. This site does not install solar, does not give a fixed price, does not name an installer and does not promise a reply time. Everything here is general information: get a written quote and a site survey from an installer you choose before relying on any figure for a specific farm.
What the guides cover
The guides cover what a dairy farmer asks before buying: cost per kW by system size, payback and the tax treatment of solar as plant, the Smart Export Guarantee, grants and funding, grid connection (G99) on rural networks, asbestos cement roofs and the reclad that usually has to come first, tenant-farmer and landlord consent, and how solar fits alongside a mixed holding. The cost page, the grants and funding guide and the savings calculator set out the figures, and the FAQs answer the common questions. When you are ready, send an enquiry.