Buckinghamshire
Solar panels in Buckingham, priced before anyone visits.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 6,450 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 Buckingham roof makes, month by month
Buckingham's best month is July, at 124.3 kWh per kWp; December manages 35.8. Over the year that comes to 1,014 kWh per kWp, 2% above our Buckinghamshire county estimate.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 39.2 |
| February | 53 |
| March | 87.8 |
| April | 113 |
| May | 122 |
| June | 123 |
| July | 124 |
| August | 110 |
| September | 95.5 |
| October | 65.5 |
| November | 45.3 |
| December | 35.8 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
Our GB average is 925 kWh per kWp a year, the mean of the 85 county PVGIS estimates we publish; at 1,014, Buckingham is 10% above it.
How Buckingham compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Buckingham. It is one of 19 Buckinghamshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 5th of 19 for solar yield, a town of 15,163 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,014 kWh per kWp a year, 2.78 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £908 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £661 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Buckingham'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.
Any planning application in Buckingham sits with Buckinghamshire, 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 Buckingham at 51.99696, -0.98367 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 Buckingham
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) owns and runs the local electricity network in Buckingham, as part of its East Midlands licence area.
What decides the paperwork is the inverter and battery output, not the number of panels. Up to 3.68kW per phase, a system follows G98: NGED is notified within 28 days of commissioning and nothing has to be approved first.
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.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Buckingham
A heat pump in Buckingham
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Buckingham, a 12-panel system makes about 230 kWh in December and 250 kWh in January, a fraction of its 790 kWh in July, 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 Buckingham
Summer is where a car earns its place. In July, 12 panels in Buckingham make about 790 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.
If you rent, or own a flat, and have private off-street parking, the government chargepoint grant covers 75% of the cost, capped at £500 a socket, until 31 March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026). The calculator above prices 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 Buckingham
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Buckingham as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Buckingham solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Buckingham?
About 6,450 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Buckingham: 1,014 kWh per kWp, or 2.78 peak sun hours a day on average. July is the strongest month, at about 790 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Buckingham?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Buckingham, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,450 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Buckingham, and what does it need from me?
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) covers Buckingham. 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 Buckingham?
Around £661 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,512 kWh a 12-panel system in Buckingham 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 Buckingham get in December?
December is the low point: about 230 kWh from a 12-panel system in Buckingham, on PVGIS data, rising to 790 kWh in July. From November to February the same system makes about 1,100 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Buckingham compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Buckingham compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Buckingham |
|---|---|---|
| Buckingham | 1,014 | this town |
| Brackley | 1,016 | +2 kWh |
| Towcester | 1,022 | +8 kWh |
| Bicester | 1,020 | +6 kWh |
| Milton Keynes | 1,014 | level |
| Bletchley | 1,012 | −2 kWh |
| Newport Pagnell | 1,010 | −4 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.
Also for Buckingham: Solar panels in Buckingham from OVO Solar & Battery
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