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Solar panels in Adlington, sized to your roof.
A 12-panel roof in Adlington makes about 5,820 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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What a roof in Adlington can generate
Adlington's best month is May, at 119.8 kWh per kWp; December manages 26.6. Over the year that comes to 915 kWh per kWp, 6% above our Lancashire county estimate.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 28.2 |
| February | 48.6 |
| March | 81 |
| April | 108 |
| May | 120 |
| June | 113 |
| July | 114 |
| August | 101 |
| September | 83 |
| October | 55.4 |
| November | 37.2 |
| December | 26.6 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 915 kWh per kWp in Adlington against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Adlington 1% below it.
How Adlington compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Adlington. It is one of 109 Lancashire towns we track, and it ranks 52nd of 109 for solar yield, a town of 8,843 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 915 kWh per kWp a year, 2.51 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £833 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £586 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Adlington's own yield, and prices a 12 panel system at £6,360 installed before any battery. Your free design call reworks every number for your actual roof, its shading and your usage.
Adlington sits within Chorley, its local planning authority, and the House of Commons Library classes it 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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The figures use PVGIS for the centre of Adlington (53.61625, -2.60254), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
Connecting solar to the Adlington network
Adlington is served by Electricity North West: the town's centre falls inside its North West England licence area on NESO's boundary map.
What decides the paperwork is the inverter and battery output, not the number of panels. Up to 3.68kW per phase, a system follows G98: Electricity North West is notified within 28 days of commissioning and nothing has to be approved first.
Anything bigger is a G99 case and is applied for first. 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 Electricity North West 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.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Adlington
A heat pump in Adlington
Solar and a heat pump pull in opposite directions through the year: Adlington's roofs make 890 kWh from November to February on a 12-panel system, and 2,840 kWh from May to August. The heating season leans on the grid, so off-peak rates do the heavy lifting.
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme, open in England and Wales, takes £7,500 off an air source or ground source heat pump, or £2,500 off an air-to-air unit. Homes on oil or LPG with no mains gas get £1,500 more until March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
Charging an EV in Adlington
A 12-panel roof in Adlington makes about 760 kWh in May. A typical home uses around 70 kWh of that in daylight (the calculator's typical-use settings), which leaves most of the month's output for an EV or for export.
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 Adlington
Guidance is nationwide, so the benchmarks hold in Adlington: repair costs, service scope, and when the inverter is the real fault.
Solar in Adlington: your questions answered
What could a roof in Adlington generate?
PVGIS puts a roof in Adlington at 915 kWh per kWp a year, 2.51 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons. A 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system makes about 5,820 kWh a year, most of it between April and September.
What would 12 solar panels cost in Adlington?
£6,360 for 12 panels (6.36 kWp), the same as in every other place we cover, because solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed rather than by area. A battery adds its own installed price on top. Where Adlington differs is output: about 5,820 kWh a year from that system.
Do I need permission from the DNO for solar in Adlington?
Usually not in advance. Electricity North West, the network operator for Adlington, only needs a G98 notification within 28 days of commissioning for systems up to 3.68kW per phase. Bigger inverter or battery outputs need G99 approval first. 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 Electricity North West as it does every network operator. "See our DNO explainer.
How much would export pay on a system in Adlington?
It is exported. With typical use and no battery, about 4,883 kWh of the 5,820 kWh a 12-panel system makes in Adlington goes to the grid, around £586 a year at 12p. A battery keeps more of it for the evening; the export rates table shows what suppliers pay.
Do solar panels work in winter in Adlington?
Yes, at a lower level. PVGIS gives Adlington 26.6 kWh per kWp in December and 28.2 in January, so a 12-panel system makes about 170 kWh and 180 kWh in those months, against 760 kWh in May. Winter output mostly covers daytime use rather than exporting.
How Adlington compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Adlington compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Adlington |
|---|---|---|
| Adlington | 915 | this town |
| Coppull | 922 | +7 kWh |
| Chorley | 882 | −33 kWh |
| Horwich | 920 | +5 kWh |
| Standish | 932 | +17 kWh |
| Euxton | 896 | −19 kWh |
| Ince-in-Makerfield | 933 | +18 kWh |
PVGIS v5.2 for each town centroid, identical assumptions throughout. A few kWh either way is weather-year noise; a spread beyond about 30 kWh per kWp is real geography.
Also for Adlington: Solar panels in Adlington from OVO Solar & Battery
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