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Solar panels in Bradwell, priced before anyone visits.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 6,800 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 Bradwell roof makes, month by month
PVGIS puts Bradwell at 1,069 kWh per kWp a year, 2% above our Suffolk county estimate. 69% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 38.8 |
| February | 54 |
| March | 92.4 |
| April | 126 |
| May | 134 |
| June | 130 |
| July | 129 |
| August | 117 |
| September | 101 |
| October | 66.3 |
| November | 45.1 |
| December | 36 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 1,069 kWh per kWp in Bradwell against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Bradwell 16% above it.
How Bradwell compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Bradwell. It is one of 16 Suffolk towns we track, and it ranks 7th of 16 for solar yield, a town of 12,184 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,069 kWh per kWp a year, 2.93 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £950 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £703 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 Bradwell's own yield.
Any planning application in Bradwell sits with Great Yarmouth, 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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The figures use PVGIS for the centre of Bradwell (52.5801, 1.70009), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
UK Power Networks and your Bradwell connection
The distribution network operator (DNO) for Bradwell is UK Power Networks, which runs the East England licence area.
G98 is the simple route. If the inverter, plus any battery, stays at or under 3.68kW per phase, UK Power Networks 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: 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 UK Power 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.
Beyond the panels: heating and car charging in Bradwell
A heat pump in Bradwell
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Bradwell, a 12-panel system makes about 230 kWh in December and 250 kWh in January, a fraction of its 850 kWh in May, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
In England, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays £7,500 towards an air source or ground source heat pump and £2,500 towards an air-to-air one, with £1,500 more until March 2027 for homes heated by oil or LPG with no mains gas (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
Charging an EV in Bradwell
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Bradwell make about 850 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.
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 Bradwell
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Bradwell as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Solar in Bradwell: your questions answered
How much electricity do solar panels make in Bradwell?
About 6,800 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Bradwell: 1,069 kWh per kWp, or 2.93 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 850 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Bradwell?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Bradwell, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,800 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Bradwell, and what does it need from me?
UK Power Networks covers Bradwell. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to UK Power 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 UK Power Networks as it does every network operator.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Bradwell?
Around £703 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,862 kWh a 12-panel system in Bradwell 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 Bradwell get in December?
December is the low point: about 230 kWh from a 12-panel system in Bradwell, on PVGIS data, rising to 850 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 1,110 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Bradwell 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 Bradwell |
|---|---|---|
| Bradwell | 1,069 | this town |
| Gorleston-on-Sea | 1,068 | −1 kWh |
| Great Yarmouth | 1,042 | −27 kWh |
| Caister-on-Sea | 1,056 | −13 kWh |
| Lowestoft | 1,058 | −11 kWh |
| Beccles | 1,075 | +6 kWh |
| Norwich | 1,033 | −36 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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Further reading for Bradwell
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
Why your inverter is smaller than your panel array, and why that is correct
More panel capacity than inverter capacity is a deliberate design choice.
Read the guide →How much a battery saves by charging on cheap night rates
What charging at 8.5p and using at 26.32p is actually worth over a year.
Read the guide →What an EV charger installation actually involves
Main fuse, DNO notification, load balancing and the paperwork. What really happens.
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.
Read the guide →EV tariffs compared: the cheapest overnight windows
Overnight rates of 6.99p to 9p against a 26.32p capped average, compared.
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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