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Solar panels in Bury St Edmunds, priced before anyone visits.
A 12-panel roof in Bury St Edmunds makes about 6,630 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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Sunlight in Bury St Edmunds, in numbers
PVGIS puts Bury St Edmunds at 1,042 kWh per kWp a year, 1% below our Suffolk county estimate. 68% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 38.7 |
| February | 54.1 |
| March | 89 |
| April | 119 |
| May | 125 |
| June | 125 |
| July | 125 |
| August | 114 |
| September | 98.9 |
| October | 69.1 |
| November | 48.2 |
| December | 37.2 |
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 1,042, Bury St Edmunds is 13% above it.
How Bury St Edmunds compares
Among the places we publish figures for, Bury St Edmunds is one of 16 Suffolk towns we track, and it ranks 13th of 16 for solar yield. It is a medium town in the House of Commons Library classification, with 43,824 residents, and its roofs see 2.86 peak sun hours a day across the year. That drives the standard 12 panel model to 6,627 kWh of generation, of which around 5,690 kWh is exported at 12p for £683 a year, with £247 saved on electricity you would otherwise buy at 26.32p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Bury St Edmunds' 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 Bury St Edmunds sits with West Suffolk, and its official House of Commons Library settlement class is medium 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 Bury St Edmunds at 52.24613, 0.71672 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
UK Power Networks and your Bury St Edmunds connection
UK Power Networks owns and runs the local electricity network in Bury St Edmunds, as part of its East England 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: UK Power Networks 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: 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 Bury St Edmunds
A heat pump in Bury St Edmunds
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Bury St Edmunds, a 12-panel system makes about 240 kWh in December and 250 kWh in January, a fraction of its 800 kWh in May, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
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 Bury St Edmunds
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Bury St Edmunds make about 800 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.
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 Bury St Edmunds
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Bury St Edmunds as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Solar in Bury St Edmunds: your questions answered
How much electricity do solar panels make in Bury St Edmunds?
About 6,630 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Bury St Edmunds: 1,042 kWh per kWp, or 2.86 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 800 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Bury St Edmunds?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Bury St Edmunds, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,630 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Bury St Edmunds, and what does it need from me?
UK Power Networks covers Bury St Edmunds. 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 Bury St Edmunds?
Around £683 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,690 kWh a 12-panel system in Bury St Edmunds 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 Bury St Edmunds get in December?
December is the low point: about 240 kWh from a 12-panel system in Bury St Edmunds, on PVGIS data, rising to 800 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 1,130 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Bury St Edmunds 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 Bury St Edmunds |
|---|---|---|
| Bury St Edmunds | 1,042 | this town |
| Thetford | 1,025 | −17 kWh |
| Mildenhall | 1,033 | −9 kWh |
| Stowmarket | 1,056 | +14 kWh |
| Newmarket | 1,032 | −10 kWh |
| Brandon (West Suffolk) | 1,003 | −39 kWh |
| Sudbury | 1,054 | +12 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 Bury St Edmunds: Solar panels in Bury St Edmunds from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Bury St Edmunds
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