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Solar panels in Brightlingsea, designed on a free call.
About 7,050 kWh a year from 12 panels in Brightlingsea, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Brightlingsea roof makes, month by month
PVGIS puts Brightlingsea at 1,109 kWh per kWp a year, 4% above our Essex county estimate. 69% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in July.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 40.6 |
| February | 56.1 |
| March | 93 |
| April | 127 |
| May | 136 |
| June | 136 |
| July | 137 |
| August | 120 |
| September | 104 |
| October | 71.6 |
| November | 49.7 |
| December | 38.2 |
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: Brightlingsea makes 1,109 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Brightlingsea is 20% above it.
How Brightlingsea compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Brightlingsea. It is one of 46 Essex towns we track, and it ranks 3rd of 46 for solar yield, a town of 8,939 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,109 kWh per kWp a year, 3.04 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £981 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £734 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Brightlingsea's own PVGIS figure; change the panels, the battery or the export rate and it reruns. The design call replaces every assumption with your roof and your bills.
Planning applications here go through Tendring; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Brightlingsea 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 Brightlingsea (51.81434, 1.02495), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
The network operator for Brightlingsea
UK Power Networks owns and runs the local electricity network in Brightlingsea, as part of its East England licence area.
For a typical home the paperwork is light: a system of up to 3.68kW per phase goes through G98, which means UK Power Networks is notified within 28 days of switch-on rather than asked beforehand.
Above that, G99 means applying before the work is booked. 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.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Brightlingsea
A heat pump in Brightlingsea
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Brightlingsea make about 240 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Brightlingsea comes down to the tariff and the flow temperature rather than the roof.
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 Brightlingsea
Brightlingsea's July output, about 870 kWh from 12 panels, is several times the 70 kWh or so a typical home uses in daylight that month on our calculator's settings. Daytime charging turns that surplus into miles.
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 Brightlingsea
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Brightlingsea as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Brightlingsea solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Brightlingsea?
About 7,050 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Brightlingsea: 1,109 kWh per kWp, or 3.04 peak sun hours a day on average. July is the strongest month, at about 870 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Brightlingsea?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Brightlingsea, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 7,050 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Brightlingsea, and what does it need from me?
UK Power Networks covers Brightlingsea. 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 could I earn from exporting in Brightlingsea?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Brightlingsea sends about 6,117 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £734. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Brightlingsea get in December?
December is the low point: about 240 kWh from a 12-panel system in Brightlingsea, on PVGIS data, rising to 870 kWh in July. From November to February the same system makes about 1,170 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Brightlingsea compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Brightlingsea compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Brightlingsea |
|---|---|---|
| Brightlingsea | 1,109 | this town |
| Clacton-on-Sea | 1,110 | +1 kWh |
| Berechurch | 1,091 | −18 kWh |
| Colchester | 1,082 | −27 kWh |
| Tiptree | 1,077 | −32 kWh |
| Harwich | 1,092 | −17 kWh |
| Burnham-on-Crouch | 1,122 | +13 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.
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