Watch & Read: Dairy Farm Solar Done Right 🐄⚡ | Clean Install + Sigenergy Setup
Kieren’s back at a UK dairy farm, showing off what a proper solar install should look like. 👣 Walk through the system 🧼 Tidy, well-run cabling 🔋 Featuring the sleek Sigenergy inverter + battery combo At KMM Energy,…
What this video covers
This is one of KMM's mid-funnel explainer videos — useful once you're past the basic 'should I get solar' question and into the how-does-it-work detail.
Kieren’s back at a UK dairy farm, showing off what a proper solar install should look like. 👣 Walk through the system 🧼 Tidy, well-run cabling 🔋 Featuring the sleek Sigenergy inverter + battery combo At KMM Energy,…
The dairy farm economics
- Typical UK dairy farm electricity: 90,000–350,000 kWh/year for 80–250 head dairy operations
- Load profile: bi-modal — milking parlour twice daily (5–6am and 4–5pm), continuous refrigeration overlay, ventilation
- System sizing: 30–120kWp typical, often paired with 30–60kWh battery storage to time-shift solar into milking peaks
- Diesel displacement: battery + solar can run diesel-pumped parlours from stored solar — typical 800–1,200L red diesel saved/year
- Payback: 4.5–6 years pre-grant; faster with battery on time-shifted milking loads
How this applies to your project
If you're researching solar for your own home, farm, factory or commercial building, the principles in this video apply directly — but the specific numbers will vary based on your roof orientation, your import tariff, your half-hourly load profile and your tax position.
KMM's fully funded survey is the fastest way to translate this video into specific advice for your site. We:
- Run a desktop assessment from your MPAN and roof satellite imagery — inside 5 working days, no site visit needed at this stage
- Schedule a drone survey if the desktop assessment shows the project is viable — 3D model of your roof inside 48 hours
- Deliver a bound proposal with full ROI cash model, three finance routes side-by-side, and every commission disclosed
- Decide together — no hard sell, no time-pressured discounts, no deposit required to keep the quote open for 30 days
Related KMM pages
Commercial Solar · Farms · Commercial Solar · Sectors · Dairy Farms · Battery Storage
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Steve and Kieren publish a new video on the KMM YouTube channel — Solar Made Simple every couple of weeks. Topics typically rotate through real customer install case studies, technical explainers, finance route walk-throughs, and tariff comparisons.
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