60.2 kWp Solar at St Michael's Hospice, Herefordshire
Bartestree, Herefordshire · Published 8 July 2026
At a glance
- Facility
- St Michael's Hospice
- Location
- Bartestree, Herefordshire
- System size
- 60.2 kWp
- Annual generation
- ~49,000 kWh/yr
- Annual saving
- ~£12,700/yr
- Simple payback
- 5 years
A real, verifiable nursing-sector installation
St Michael’s Hospice near Hereford has provided palliative and respite care since 1984. It is a genuine clinical, Registered-Nurse-staffed nursing facility, not a residential care site, which makes it one of the clearest published references for what rooftop solar does on a building with a continuous clinical load. We include it here as an honest, cited sector proof point: the installation was carried out by Spirit Energy in March 2024, and every figure below is taken from the installer’s published case study rather than modelled by us.
The system
- 60.2 kWp of solar PV: 140 Trina 440 W panels.
- 50 kW plus 10 kW Solis inverters.
- Installed March 2024 across the hospice’s year-round clinical buildings.
The reported outcome
- Generates around 49,000 kWh a year.
- Saves around £12,700 a year on electricity.
- Avoids more than 12 tonnes of CO2 a year.
- Roughly a five-year payback.
- The hospice also runs EV charge points for nurses carrying out home visits in electric vehicles, a good example of pairing solar with workplace charging.
Why it reads across to other nursing homes
A hospice with inpatient nursing registration carries the same kind of round-the-clock clinical baseload as a general or dementia nursing home: syringe drivers, pressure-relief systems, profiling beds and clinical refrigeration that draw power day and night. That is exactly the load profile that lets a nursing setting self-consume a high share of its own generation and reach a payback near five years. It is also a reminder that many hospices are charity-owned and heritage-sensitive, so a survey-led design and, where relevant, gift-aided or restricted-fund capital are part of the picture.
Source (verify): Spirit Energy case study — St Michael’s Hospice 60.2 kWp. Figures are the installer’s current published figures; we cite them rather than restate them as our own. Every quote we prepare is modelled from the home’s own half-hourly meter data.