This site is an independent guide to solar PV for UK car dealerships: franchised main dealers and dealer groups, independent and used-car forecourts, and van, truck and motorcycle dealers, with their showrooms, workshops and bodyshops. It is published by SEO Dons Ltd and it is not an installer. A dealership is an unusual solar site: a glazed showroom lit and climate-controlled through every trading hour, a workshop running ramps, compressors and extraction by day, forecourt lighting, and an EV-charging load that is growing. The guides here start from that daytime load and from half-hourly meter data, not from the roof area, because that is what decides whether a system pays back.
Why this site focuses on car dealerships
Most of a dealership's electricity is used while the sun is up, which is when a rooftop array generates most. That makes the load a good match for solar, and the pages here set out what that means for sizing, cost, tax relief and funding, and for pairing solar with the EV chargers a dealership is adding anyway. A solar carport over the forecourt is covered alongside the roof, because the car park is often the largest surface a dealership controls.
How this site works
You can read the cost, grants and FAQ pages without sending anything. If you send an enquiry through the quote 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 and does not promise a reply time. We do not currently pass enquiries to installers or other third parties. Everything here is general information: get a written quote and a site survey from an installer before relying on any figure for a specific project.
What the guides cover
The guides cover the points dealerships most often find awkward: a structural survey of showroom and workshop roofs and a check for asbestos cement on older workshop blocks, planning for rooftop PV and carports, the G98 and G99 grid connection process, landlord consent where the premises are leased, the Workplace Charging Scheme for EV chargers, capital allowances and the Smart Export Guarantee for the tax and income side.
Where the numbers come from
Cost, payback and tax-relief figures are indicative ranges for UK dealerships, not quotes. The cost page sets out the ranges by system size and the grants and funding guide explains which schemes and reliefs apply. The savings calculator lets you change the assumptions yourself. When you are ready, send an enquiry. The publisher is SEO Dons Ltd, Company No. 16766013, registered at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ.