Flintshire
Solar panels in Buckley, priced before anyone visits.
About 6,090 kWh a year from 12 panels in Buckley, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Buckley roof makes, month by month
Buckley's best month is May, at 121.5 kWh per kWp; December manages 31.5. Over the year that comes to 958 kWh per kWp, 4% above our Flintshire county estimate.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 33.9 |
| February | 52.4 |
| March | 84.7 |
| April | 110 |
| May | 122 |
| June | 116 |
| July | 116 |
| August | 105 |
| September | 88.1 |
| October | 59.3 |
| November | 40.1 |
| December | 31.5 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 958 kWh per kWp in Buckley against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Buckley 4% above it.
How Buckley compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Buckley. It is one of 8 Flintshire towns we track, and it ranks 5th of 8 for solar yield, a town of 14,112 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 958 kWh per kWp a year, 2.63 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £866 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £619 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Buckley'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.
Any planning application in Buckley sits with Flintshire, 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 Buckley at 53.16951, -3.07835 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
SP Energy Networks and your Buckley connection
The distribution network operator (DNO) for Buckley is SP Energy Networks, which runs the North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area.
For a typical home the paperwork is light: a system of up to 3.68kW per phase goes through G98, which means SP Energy Networks is notified within 28 days of switch-on rather than asked beforehand.
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 SP Energy 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 Buckley
A heat pump in Buckley
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Buckley, a 12-panel system makes about 200 kWh in December and 220 kWh in January, a fraction of its 770 kWh in May, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
In Wales, 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 Buckley
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Buckley 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.
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.
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 Buckley
If a system in Buckley is underperforming, start with the guides below: repair benchmarks, service scope, and the inverter question.
Common questions about solar in Buckley
How much energy would 12 solar panels make in Buckley?
Buckley averages 2.63 peak sun hours a day, which PVGIS turns into 958 kWh per kWp a year. On a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp roof that is about 6,090 kWh, 68% of it between April and September.
What does a typical solar system cost in Buckley?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Buckley, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,090 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Who is the network operator in Buckley, and do I need a G99 application?
The operator is SP Energy Networks. Most home systems use the G98 route, a notification within 28 days of switch-on for up to 3.68kW per phase, so nothing waits on the network. Above that, G99 applies and has to be granted 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 SP Energy Networks as it does every network operator. Your design call checks which route yours needs.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Buckley?
Around £619 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,156 kWh a 12-panel system in Buckley exports with typical use. Rates vary by supplier and some need their own tariff; the export rates table is dated and sourced.
How does solar perform in Buckley in the winter months?
December is the weakest month in Buckley: about 200 kWh from 12 panels, against 770 kWh in May. The panels still generate on bright winter days; they just cover a smaller share of what the house uses.
How Buckley 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 Buckley |
|---|---|---|
| Buckley | 958 | this town |
| Mold | 944 | −14 kWh |
| Hawarden | 962 | +4 kWh |
| Connah's Quay | 967 | +9 kWh |
| Flint | 962 | +4 kWh |
| Gwersyllt | 956 | −2 kWh |
| Brynteg | 955 | −3 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 Buckley: Solar panels in Buckley from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Buckley
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 →Adding a battery to solar panels you already own
Retrofitting a battery to working solar is straightforward. The paperwork is where people trip up.
Read the guide →How solar aware EV charging actually works
The CT clamp, the surplus tracking and the 1.4kW floor that catches people out.
Read the guide →How much does a heat pump cost? The 2026 numbers, before and after the grant
UK median installed cost around £12,908, before the up to £7,500 grant comes off.
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 →MCS, HIES, RECC, NAPIT, TrustMark and Flexi-Orb: which badge does what
Six logos, six different jobs. What each scheme covers, and which are actually required.
Read the guide →Get my free quote
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