This is an independent information site about solar for golf and country clubs. It is published by SEO Dons Ltd (Company No. 16766013, registered at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ), and it does not install solar, quote prices or endorse an installer. The decision to concentrate on golf clubs was deliberate. A golf operation is not the same as a warehouse or an office, and treating it like one leads to badly sized systems and disappointed committees. The guides here are written around how clubs actually run.
Why golf clubs specifically
A golf club has a demand profile that almost nobody else has. The clubhouse bar, kitchen, function rooms and cellar cooling draw through the day, the pro shop and lighting run alongside, and then the irrigation system pumps hard across greens and tees through the summer, the very months when the panels generate most. That alignment between daytime, summer-heavy demand and peak solar output is unusually favourable, and it is why a well-designed golf array self-consumes a high share of what it makes. But it only works if whoever sizes the system understands the seasonality, the weekend visitor and function trade, and the way irrigation load swings between July and January. That is why the guides on this site are written around golf clubs rather than generic commercial buildings.
How this site works
This site is independent of any panel or inverter manufacturer and does not sell or specify hardware. A sound proposal begins with a desk-based feasibility study built from at least twelve months of a club's half-hourly meter data and its roof plans. From that, annual generation, the self-consumption split, export income and a full discounted cash flow over twenty-five years can be modelled, so a committee sees simple payback, internal rate of return and net present value, not a single optimistic headline. If the numbers do not work for a site, an honest installer says so, because a system that underperforms in front of its members helps nobody.
A golf project also has parts that have nothing to do with electricity: the committee and AGM approval cycle that governs capital spend at a member-owned club, the Listed Building Consent and conservation work that older or part-listed clubhouses often need, and the planning sensitivities around courses in Green Belt or protected landscape. Where the main clubhouse cannot take panels, the greenkeeping barns, the machinery sheds and discreet ground-mount on out-of-play land are the alternatives to look at.
How to check any installer
This site is not an installer and holds no accreditations, so none are claimed here. Before appointing any installer, ask for its MCS certificate number and check it on the MCS website, ask for NICEIC or NAPIT registration for the electrical work and for RECC or TrustMark membership, and ask who stands behind the workmanship warranty if the installing company stops trading. MCS certification also matters for the Smart Export Guarantee, because a system of up to 50 kW needs an MCS-certified installation to qualify.
What to expect from this site
This site publishes guides, worked examples and sourced figures, and each page names its sources. We do not publish reviews, testimonials or star ratings, and the figures on these pages are typical or indicative rather than results from installed systems. If you want to know whether solar makes sense for your club, send an enquiry and we reply by email. A realistic plan allows for the timeline, including the grid connection that is usually the longest part of any project.