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Solar panels in Brighton and Hove, sized to your roof.
A 12-panel roof in Brighton and Hove makes about 7,370 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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Brighton and Hove's solar year
PVGIS puts Brighton and Hove at 1,159 kWh per kWp a year, 2% above our Sussex 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 | 41.9 |
| February | 59 |
| March | 98.8 |
| April | 133 |
| May | 139 |
| June | 146 |
| July | 148 |
| August | 129 |
| September | 107 |
| October | 72.2 |
| November | 46.4 |
| December | 39.4 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 1,159 kWh per kWp in Brighton and Hove against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Brighton and Hove 25% above it.
How Brighton and Hove compares
Brighton and Hove is classed as a city in the House of Commons Library settlement data, home to 283,870 people. It is one of 33 Sussex towns we track, and it ranks 6th of 33 for solar yield. Its 1,159 kWh per kWp a year works out at 3.18 peak sun hours a day, and running the standard 12 panel model here splits the return into £247 of savings from generation you use yourself and £772 of export income at 12p, with about 6,435 kWh a year going to the grid.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Brighton and Hove'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 in Brighton and Hove go to its own council, and the House of Commons Library classes it as a city.
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 Brighton and Hove at 50.83886, -0.14058 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
Who runs the grid in Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove is served by UK Power Networks: the town's centre falls inside its South East England licence area on NESO's boundary map.
Most home systems stay within 3.68kW per phase of inverter output, which puts them on G98, a notification to UK Power Networks within 28 days of switch-on. Panel count does not decide it; the inverter and any battery do.
Anything bigger is a G99 case and is applied for first. 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.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Brighton and Hove
A heat pump in Brighton and Hove
A heat pump does most of its work from November to February. Over those four months, 12 panels in Brighton and Hove make about 1,190 kWh, against 3,570 kWh from May to August, so winter heating runs mostly on grid electricity and the tariff matters more than the roof.
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 Brighton and Hove
A 12-panel roof in Brighton and Hove makes about 940 kWh in July. A typical home uses around 70 kWh of that in daylight (the calculator's typical-use settings), which leaves most of the month's output for an EV or for export.
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).
What the named kit costs, installed
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Brighton and Hove
Faults, servicing and ageing inverters follow the same economics in Brighton and Hove as anywhere else, and the guides below price them plainly.
Solar in Brighton and Hove: your questions answered
What does a solar panel system produce in Brighton and Hove?
Each kWp of panels in Brighton and Hove makes 1,159 kWh a year on PVGIS figures, so a typical 12-panel system produces around 7,370 kWh, from about 250 kWh in December up to 940 kWh in July.
How much are solar panels in Brighton and Hove?
The price does not move by postcode. At £1,000 per kWp installed, 12 panels (6.36 kWp) come to £6,360 in Brighton and Hove before a battery. What Brighton and Hove changes is the return, about 7,370 kWh a year from that system, and your design call prices your actual roof.
Would a system in Brighton and Hove need approval from the network operator?
Brighton and Hove is on UK Power Networks' network (South East England licence area). Systems up to 3.68kW per phase of inverter output follow G98: UK Power Networks is notified within 28 days of commissioning, with no approval needed first. Anything larger needs a G99 application before installation. 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. Our G98 vs G99 guide explains both routes.
How much can I earn from exporting solar in Brighton and Hove?
With typical use and no battery, a 12-panel system in Brighton and Hove exports about 6,435 kWh a year. At 12p per kWh that is roughly £772; a supplier paying more, or a battery that keeps more for the evening, changes the figure. See the export rates table.
Is solar worth it in Brighton and Hove in winter?
It works, but the year is lopsided. 69% of a Brighton and Hove roof's output lands between April and September; the four months from November to February give about 1,190 kWh on a 12-panel system. Payback is worked out on the whole year, not the winter.
How Brighton and Hove 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 Brighton and Hove |
|---|---|---|
| Brighton and Hove | 1,159 | this town |
| Southwick | 1,146 | −13 kWh |
| Shoreham-by-Sea | 1,145 | −14 kWh |
| Hassocks and Hurstpierpoint | 1,134 | −25 kWh |
| Lewes | 1,177 | +18 kWh |
| Peacehaven | 1,158 | −1 kWh |
| Lancing and Sompting | 1,144 | −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.
Also for Brighton and Hove: Solar panels in Brighton and Hove from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Brighton and Hove
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