Leicestershire
Solar panels in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, priced before anyone visits.
About 6,250 kWh a year from 12 panels in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Ashby-de-la-Zouch roof makes, month by month
PVGIS puts Ashby-de-la-Zouch at 982 kWh per kWp a year, level with our Leicestershire county estimate. 68% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 35.5 |
| February | 51.1 |
| March | 86.2 |
| April | 110 |
| May | 121 |
| June | 117 |
| July | 121 |
| August | 107 |
| September | 92.1 |
| October | 62.2 |
| November | 43.2 |
| December | 34.6 |
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: Ashby-de-la-Zouch makes 982 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Ashby-de-la-Zouch is 6% above it.
How Ashby-de-la-Zouch compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It is one of 26 Leicestershire towns we track, and it ranks 21st of 26 for solar yield, a town of 16,129 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 982 kWh per kWp a year, 2.69 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £884 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £637 from export at 12p.
Every figure here assumes a clear, south-facing roof at 35 degrees. Yours will differ, which is what the free design call is for; until then, the calculator below tests panels, batteries and export rates on Ashby-de-la-Zouch's own yield.
Any planning application in Ashby-de-la-Zouch sits with North West Leicestershire, and its official House of Commons Library settlement class is 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 Ashby-de-la-Zouch at 52.74848, -1.47274 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 Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Ashby-de-la-Zouch sits in National Grid Electricity Distribution's East Midlands licence area, so NGED is the network operator (DNO) any solar panels or battery here are registered with.
G98 is the simple route. If the inverter, plus any battery, stays at or under 3.68kW per phase, NGED only has to be told within 28 days after the system is commissioned.
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.
Beyond the panels: heating and car charging in Ashby-de-la-Zouch
A heat pump in Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a 12-panel system makes about 220 kWh in December and 230 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 Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Ashby-de-la-Zouch 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.
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).
The packages, priced before anyone visits
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Ashby-de-la-Zouch
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Ashby-de-la-Zouch as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Solar in Ashby-de-la-Zouch: your questions answered
How much electricity do solar panels make in Ashby-de-la-Zouch?
About 6,250 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Ashby-de-la-Zouch: 982 kWh per kWp, or 2.69 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 770 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Ashby-de-la-Zouch?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,250 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and what does it need from me?
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) covers Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 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 Ashby-de-la-Zouch?
Around £637 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,309 kWh a 12-panel system in Ashby-de-la-Zouch 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 Ashby-de-la-Zouch get in December?
December is the low point: about 220 kWh from a 12-panel system in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, on PVGIS data, rising to 770 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 1,050 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Ashby-de-la-Zouch compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Ashby-de-la-Zouch compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Ashby-de-la-Zouch |
|---|---|---|
| Ashby-de-la-Zouch | 982 | this town |
| Woodville | 971 | −11 kWh |
| Swadlincote | 971 | −11 kWh |
| Whitwick | 979 | −3 kWh |
| Coalville | 979 | −3 kWh |
| Shepshed | 986 | +4 kWh |
| Burton upon Trent | 967 | −15 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.
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