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Solar panels in Blaydon, priced before anyone visits.
About 5,940 kWh a year from 12 panels in Blaydon, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Blaydon roof makes, month by month
From 28.6 kWh per kWp in December to 121.2 in May: a roof in Blaydon makes 4.2 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 934 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 30.6 |
| February | 50 |
| March | 82.4 |
| April | 107 |
| May | 121 |
| June | 109 |
| July | 116 |
| August | 105 |
| September | 87.2 |
| October | 57.2 |
| November | 39.5 |
| December | 28.6 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 934 kWh per kWp in Blaydon against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Blaydon 1% above it.
How Blaydon compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Blaydon. It is one of 35 Durham towns we track, and it ranks joint 30th of 35 for solar yield, a town of 14,636 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 934 kWh per kWp a year, 2.56 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £847 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £600 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Blaydon'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 Gateshead; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Blaydon 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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Generation is modelled from PVGIS satellite data for Blaydon's own coordinates (54.95852, -1.70718), using the same 26.32p/kWh import value and £1,000 per kWp installed pricing as every Clearline estimate; the methodology is on our help page.
The network operator for Blaydon
Blaydon sits in Northern Powergrid's North East England licence area, so Northern Powergrid 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, Northern Powergrid 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: Northern Powergrid publishes a guaranteed standard of 45 working days to quote for a low voltage generation connection.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); Northern Powergrid, generation connections page, checked 25 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Blaydon
A heat pump in Blaydon
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Blaydon, a 12-panel system makes about 180 kWh in December and 190 kWh in January, a fraction of its 770 kWh in May, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
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 Blaydon
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Blaydon 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.
Renters and flat owners with private off-street parking can get 75% off a chargepoint and its installation, up to £500 per socket, until 31 March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026). The calculator above adds 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 Blaydon
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Blaydon as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Blaydon solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Blaydon?
About 5,940 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Blaydon: 934 kWh per kWp, or 2.56 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 770 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Blaydon?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Blaydon, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 5,940 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Blaydon, and what does it need from me?
Northern Powergrid covers Blaydon. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to Northern Powergrid within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. Northern Powergrid publishes a guaranteed standard of 45 working days to quote for a low voltage generation connection.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Blaydon?
Around £600 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,004 kWh a 12-panel system in Blaydon 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 Blaydon get in December?
December is the low point: about 180 kWh from a 12-panel system in Blaydon, on PVGIS data, rising to 770 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 950 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Blaydon compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Blaydon.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Blaydon |
|---|---|---|
| Blaydon | 934 | this town |
| Whickham | 950 | +16 kWh |
| Ryton | 930 | −4 kWh |
| Crawcrook and Greenside | 927 | −7 kWh |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 942 | +8 kWh |
| Gateshead | 942 | +8 kWh |
| Prudhoe | 924 | −10 kWh |
Same PVGIS v5.2 query for every town. Small differences are within year-to-year weather; more than about 30 kWh per kWp apart is geography.
Also for Blaydon: Solar panels in Blaydon from OVO Solar & Battery
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Guides worth reading before your call
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
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Read the guide →How time of use charging windows actually work
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Read the guide →Heat pump running costs versus a gas boiler, assumptions shown
Four numbers decide it: seasonal efficiency, flow temperature, tariff and heat demand.
Read the guide →Why the best export rates always carry conditions
The top export rates are acquisition offers. Here is how to price the condition.
Read the guide →G98 or G99: which one applies, what the application involves, and how long it takes
The G98 line sits at 3.68kW per phase. Above it, your network operator has to say yes first.
Read the guide →Get my free quote
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