Your load profile decides this, not your roof.
Roof area is the first thing everyone measures and close to the last thing that matters. What decides whether rooftop solar works at your facility is when you draw power, how steadily, and how much of it you can consume on site during daylight. That varies enormously by what you do — so here it is, by facility type, including where the answer is 'partly'.
Six load profiles, honestly described.
Cold Storage
Cold storage and controlled-atmosphere facilities — refrigeration running around the clock, on roofs that are rarely as simple as they look.
02Hotels & Resorts
Hotels, resorts and banquet properties — where the load peaks exactly when the sun has gone.
03Hospitals & Healthcare
Hospitals, diagnostic centres and multi-speciality campuses — continuous critical load, where continuity is the whole requirement.
04Pharma & Chemicals
Pharmaceutical, API and speciality chemical plants — continuous process load in validated, tightly controlled environments.
05Warehousing & Logistics
Distribution centres, 3PL warehouses and logistics parks — enormous roofs above comparatively modest electrical load.
06Dairy & Food Processing
Dairies, chilling centres and food processing units — refrigeration, hot water and a working day that starts before dawn.
Not on the list?
The method is the same whatever you run: read the bills, read the roof, tell you what we find.