Our Solar Sites
Wey Valley Solar started in 2011 with six state secondary schools. Now we have 10 schools and one church as part of the Wey Valley Solar community.
2011 Sites:
Rodborough School
49 kWp solar PV array just outside Milford. Rodborough is a co-educational secondary school with around 900 pupils. It’s now part of the Weydon Multi Academy Trust.
Broadwater School
in Farncombe, with a 47.5 kWp array. Broadwater has over 600 11-16 year olds.
Godalming College
Up what must be one of Surrey’s steepest hills (!) Godalming College is a sixth form college and Wey Valley Solar installed an initial 49 kWp there. We later quadrupled it with a 124 kWp solar panel array installed at Godalming College’s Independent Learning Centre together with a 41.5kWp array at the Performing Arts Centre (2023). This brings the total to just over 214kWp, our highest-generating school so far.
Woolmer Hill School
in Haslemere (11-16 year olds), 33.5kWp. Like Rodborough it too is now part of the Weydon Trust.
Guildford County School
Close to the town centre, Guildford County School has over 1,000 students. The co-op installed an array of 17.5 kWp.
Beacon School
An initial 42 kWp at Beacon School in Banstead. The co-op added another 52 kWp in 2016, taking it to a very respectable 94 kWp in total.
2015/2016 Additions:
George Abbott School
George Abbot is a large secondary school in Guildford with over 1,900 11-18 year-olds. The array was similarly large at 198.5 kWp.
Christ Church Primary School
Near Hastings (30 kWp), this site was outside the normal Wey Valley footprint. It was developed with the support of local co-op Energise South, which, at the time, needed our help. In due course we plan to transfer this school's array to the Energise South co-op.
Boxgrove Primary School
In Merrow, with a 43.7 kWp array.
Jubilee High School
In Addlestone with a 27 kWp Solar PV array.
After the (then) government’s removal of the Feed-in-Tariff (FIT), further installations were much harder to deliver. But in 2020, the co-op returned to Addlestone and to our first church, St Paul's. St. Paul’s was a small array at 10.4 kWp which runs an active community centre. The panels have helped but the costs of the centre and the scheme was enthusiastically driven through by the church and congregation.