Derbyshire
Solar panels in Alfreton, priced before anyone visits.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 6,140 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 Alfreton roof makes, month by month
From 32.5 kWh per kWp in December to 120.5 in May: a roof in Alfreton makes 3.7 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 965 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 34.5 |
| February | 50.6 |
| March | 85.1 |
| April | 108 |
| May | 121 |
| June | 113 |
| July | 119 |
| August | 107 |
| September | 90.3 |
| October | 61.3 |
| November | 42.5 |
| December | 32.5 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
Against Great Britain as a whole: Alfreton makes 965 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Alfreton is 4% above it.
How Alfreton compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Alfreton. It is one of 28 Derbyshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 11th of 28 for solar yield, a town of 9,457 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 965 kWh per kWp a year, 2.64 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £871 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £624 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Alfreton'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.
Planning applications here go through Amber Valley; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Alfreton 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 Alfreton at 53.09582, -1.38255 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 Alfreton
On NESO's licence-area map, Alfreton is in East Midlands, which National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) operates. That makes NGED the network operator for any system fitted here.
Most home systems stay within 3.68kW per phase of inverter output, which puts them on G98, a notification to NGED 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: NGED's guaranteed standards give 45 working days for a low voltage generation quotation, with £80 paid for each working day late.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); NGED, guaranteed standards of performance table, checked 25 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Alfreton
A heat pump in Alfreton
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Alfreton, a 12-panel system makes about 210 kWh in December and 220 kWh in January, a fraction of its 770 kWh in May, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
Grant support in England 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 Alfreton
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Alfreton make about 770 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.
If you rent, or own a flat, and have private off-street parking, the government chargepoint grant covers 75% of the cost, capped at £500 a socket, until 31 March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026). The calculator above prices a 7.4kW smart charger from £1,100 installed.
Installed prices, the same in every town
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Alfreton
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Alfreton as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Alfreton solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Alfreton?
About 6,140 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Alfreton: 965 kWh per kWp, or 2.64 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 770 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Alfreton?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Alfreton, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,140 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Alfreton, and what does it need from me?
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) covers Alfreton. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to NGED within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. NGED's guaranteed standards give 45 working days for a low voltage generation quotation, with £80 paid for each working day late.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Alfreton?
Around £624 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,201 kWh a 12-panel system in Alfreton 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 Alfreton get in December?
December is the low point: about 210 kWh from a 12-panel system in Alfreton, on PVGIS data, rising to 770 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 1,020 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Alfreton 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 Alfreton |
|---|---|---|
| Alfreton | 965 | this town |
| Somercotes and Swanwick | 965 | level |
| South Normanton | 955 | −10 kWh |
| Ripley | 973 | +8 kWh |
| Clay Cross | 959 | −6 kWh |
| Sutton in Ashfield | 960 | −5 kWh |
| Kirkby-in-Ashfield | 959 | −6 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 Alfreton: Solar panels in Alfreton from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Alfreton
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
What the January price cap means for solar, and what it does not
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Read the guide →How solar aware EV charging actually works
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Read the guide →What MCS certification actually buys you on a heat pump job
The gate on the £7,500 grant, the design standard behind your running costs, and the noise sign-off.
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Read the guide →How to check an MCS certificate is genuine, before the deposit leaves your account
A logo proves nothing. Certification is business specific, technology specific and checkable.
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