Denbighshire
Solar panels in Abergele, priced before anyone visits.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 6,040 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed around your roof on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Abergele roof makes, month by month
PVGIS puts Abergele at 950 kWh per kWp a year, 4% above our Denbighshire county estimate. 70% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 30.9 |
| February | 49.6 |
| March | 84.7 |
| April | 111 |
| May | 125 |
| June | 119 |
| July | 117 |
| August | 104 |
| September | 86.5 |
| October | 59.7 |
| November | 37 |
| December | 25.8 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
Our GB average is 925 kWh per kWp a year, the mean of the 85 county PVGIS estimates we publish; at 950, Abergele is 3% above it.
How Abergele compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Abergele. It is one of 8 Denbighshire towns we track, and it ranks 6th of 8 for solar yield, a town of 8,843 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 950 kWh per kWp a year, 2.60 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £860 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £613 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Abergele's own PVGIS figure; change the panels, the battery or the export rate and it reruns. The design call replaces every assumption with your roof and your bills.
Planning applications here go through Conwy; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Abergele as a small town.
The charger is in the installed price but left out of payback: charging savings depend on your mileage and tariff, which the design call models properly.
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Modelled for Abergele at 53.28372, -3.58617 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
The network operator for Abergele
Abergele is served by SP Energy Networks: the town's centre falls inside its North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area on NESO's boundary map.
Most home systems stay within 3.68kW per phase of inverter output, which puts them on G98, a notification to SP Energy Networks within 28 days of switch-on. Panel count does not decide it; the inverter and any battery do.
Larger systems go through G99 instead, applied for before installation. On timing: Ofgem's guaranteed standard for a low voltage generation connection quotation is 45 working days, with £80 paid for each working day late, and it binds SP Energy Networks as it does every network operator.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); Ofgem, Distributed Generation Standards Direction guidance, checked 27 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Abergele
A heat pump in Abergele
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Abergele, a 12-panel system makes about 160 kWh in December and 200 kWh in January, a fraction of its 800 kWh in May, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
Grant support in Wales comes from the Boiler Upgrade Scheme: £7,500 for an air source or ground source heat pump, £2,500 for air-to-air, and an extra £1,500 until March 2027 where the home is heated by oil or LPG off the gas grid (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
Charging an EV in Abergele
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Abergele make about 800 kWh, against roughly 70 kWh a typical home uses in daylight that month on our calculator's typical-use settings, so there is surplus a smart charger can put into the car instead of exporting it.
The calculator above includes a 7.4kW smart charger from £1,100 installed. Renters and flat owners with off-street parking can claim 75% of a chargepoint's cost, up to £500 per socket, until 31 March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
What the named kit costs, installed
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Abergele
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Abergele as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Abergele
How much electricity do solar panels make in Abergele?
About 6,040 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Abergele: 950 kWh per kWp, or 2.60 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 800 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Abergele?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Abergele, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,040 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Abergele, and what does it need from me?
SP Energy Networks covers Abergele. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to SP Energy Networks within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. Ofgem's guaranteed standard for a low voltage generation connection quotation is 45 working days, with £80 paid for each working day late, and it binds SP Energy Networks as it does every network operator.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Abergele?
Around £613 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,105 kWh a 12-panel system in Abergele exports with typical use. Rates vary by supplier and some need their own tariff; the export rates table is dated and sourced.
How much solar does Abergele get in December?
December is the low point: about 160 kWh from a 12-panel system in Abergele, on PVGIS data, rising to 800 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 910 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Abergele compares with its neighbours
Same satellite dataset, same assumptions, so the differences are real geography rather than modelling noise.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Abergele |
|---|---|---|
| Abergele | 950 | this town |
| Kinmel Bay | 1,002 | +52 kWh |
| Rhyl | 985 | +35 kWh |
| Colwyn Bay | 933 | −17 kWh |
| Prestatyn | 943 | −7 kWh |
| Conwy | 933 | −17 kWh |
| Denbigh | 929 | −21 kWh |
Each row is a PVGIS v5.2 run at that town's centre with the same settings. Treat gaps of a few kWh as noise and gaps over about 30 kWh per kWp as real differences in sunshine.
Also for Abergele: Solar panels in Abergele from OVO Solar & Battery
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