Commercial solar installers in Keighley

Key facts

Where businesses are in Keighley

• Riverside Business Park, Royd Ings Avenue: Five industrial buildings totalling 270,000 sq ft on the nine acre former Magnet factory site, completed in 2016. Buyers included J Stell & Sons (cardboard tubes), Cavalier Marketing and Spooner Industries, with over 200 people employed.
• Dalton Lane: Eight acre site where Turner Developments planned around 150,000 sq ft of new industrial space with Bradford Council, following its Riverside Business Park scheme.

Large employers and sectors with sites here include:

• Brewing (Timothy Taylor): Family-owned brewery at Knowle Spring since 1863, brewer of Landlord pale ale, still drawing its water from an artesian well sunk in 1894.
• Engineering and manufacturing: Keighley grew on textiles and textile machinery makers such as Dean, Smith & Grace, and Aire Valley manufacturers still fill sites such as Riverside Business Park.

Large, simple roofs on distribution sheds and modern industrial units are usually the quickest and cheapest to fit. Older mill, factory and workshop buildings can work well too, but often need a structural survey first, and roofs from before 2000 may contain asbestos cement: see asbestos roofs.

Grid connection

Keighley is served by Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire). Almost every commercial system needs G99 approval from the network operator before it is switched on, and the question is usually how much the local network can take back. Where export is limited, a G100 export limitation scheme can let a larger array connect. See G99 and DNO applications.

Planning in Keighley

Keighley follows the national planning rules for England, decided by Bradford council. Rooftop solar on most non-domestic buildings is permitted development, within height and edge limits, and systems above 50 kW need a prior approval application covering design and glare.

Points that come up locally:

• The Keighley Town Centre Conservation Area covers the centre. Bradford Council's assessment and boundary map were approved by the Keighley Area Committee on 21 November 2013.

Our guides on listed buildings and conservation areas explain what these mean for a solar project.

What a business roof in Keighley could generate

Modelled with PVGIS for the town centre, a south-facing roof at 30 degrees produces about 909 kWh per kWp a year.

Illustrative, not a quote: the same sums as our commercial solar calculator. A company paying corporation tax can usually shorten the payback with capital allowances.

Funding and support

We found no council or regional grant for business solar open in Keighley at the time of writing (November 2026). National reliefs still apply, such as capital allowances and, in England, the business rates exemption for onsite renewables: see grants and reliefs in England.

Solar across Bradford

At the end of 2025, Bradford had 7,297 solar PV installations with 37.1 MW of capacity, up 87% since 2020, according to government figures. The Bradford page has the full local figures and how they compare.

Nearby towns

• Skipton, about 8 miles away
• Halifax, about 10 miles away
• Nelson, about 12 miles away
• Burnley, about 15 miles away

Sources

• en.wikipedia.org: List of ONS built up areas in England
• en.wikipedia.org: Keighley
• gordonsllp.com
• en.wikipedia.org: Timothy Taylor Brewery
• investmentmonitor.ai: england opens third investment zone west yorkshire
• bradford.gov.uk: keighley town centre conservation area
• planning.data.gov.uk
• bradford.gov.uk: latest business to benefit from funding in keighley
• Yield: PVGIS 5.3 (European Commission Joint Research Centre), SARAH3 data, 14% system losses, for the town centre, modelled 4 November 2026.
• Council area figures: DESNZ, renewable electricity by local authority 2014 to 2025.