Snetterton Business Park Solar165.6kWp Kingspan Power Panel

AC Bacon Engineering — a long-established Norfolk steel-frame building manufacturer — needed the electrical infrastructure designed and installed for 165.6kWp of Kingspan Power Panel at Snetterton Business Park, just off the A11 between Attleborough and Thetford.

At this scale the panels are the straightforward part. The work that determines whether the system ever generates is everything behind them: the electrical system design, the protection, the metering, and critically the G99 grid connection application to the Distribution Network Operator.

Because this site sits in East Anglia, the DNO was UK Power Networks rather than SP Energy Networks or ENW that we deal with across North Wales and the North West. Different network operator, same process — application, technical review, witness testing and Approval to Connect.

Businesses looking at commercial solar tend to focus on panel count and payback. The step that most often delays a project is the grid connection. Every system above 3.68kW per phase needs a G99 application, and the DNO will assess whether the local network can absorb what you intend to export.

Handled properly — with the electrical design done first and the application submitted correctly — it is simply a process with a timescale. Handled badly, it becomes months of resubmissions with panels sitting on a roof doing nothing.

We manage G99 as standard on every commercial installation, whether the DNO is UK Power Networks in East Anglia or SP Energy Networks across North Wales and Cheshire. If you are weighing up commercial solar panel installation in Chester, Deeside, Wrexham or anywhere else, that process is part of the job, not an extra.