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Solar panels in Camborne, priced before anyone visits.
About 6,530 kWh a year from 12 panels in Camborne, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Camborne, in numbers
PVGIS puts Camborne at 1,026 kWh per kWp a year, 1% above our Cornwall county estimate. 69% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 37.9 |
| February | 55.8 |
| March | 88.7 |
| April | 121 |
| May | 126 |
| June | 126 |
| July | 122 |
| August | 114 |
| September | 94.8 |
| October | 64.6 |
| November | 43 |
| December | 32.6 |
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: Camborne makes 1,026 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Camborne is 11% above it.
How Camborne compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Camborne. It is one of 14 Cornwall towns we track, and it ranks 13th of 14 for solar yield, a town of 21,076 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,026 kWh per kWp a year, 2.81 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £918 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £671 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Camborne'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 here go through Cornwall; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Camborne 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 Camborne (50.21513, -5.2961), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
The network operator for Camborne
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) owns and runs the local electricity network in Camborne, as part of its South West 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 NGED is notified within 28 days of switch-on rather than asked beforehand.
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 Camborne
A heat pump in Camborne
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Camborne make about 210 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Camborne 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 Camborne
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Camborne 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.
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.
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 Camborne
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Camborne as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Solar in Camborne: your questions answered
How much electricity do solar panels make in Camborne?
About 6,530 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Camborne: 1,026 kWh per kWp, or 2.81 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 800 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Camborne?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Camborne, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,530 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Camborne, and what does it need from me?
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) covers Camborne. 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 Camborne?
Around £671 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,589 kWh a 12-panel system in Camborne 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 Camborne get in December?
December is the low point: about 210 kWh from a 12-panel system in Camborne, on PVGIS data, rising to 800 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 1,080 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Camborne compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Camborne.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Camborne |
|---|---|---|
| Camborne | 1,026 | this town |
| Redruth | 1,038 | +12 kWh |
| Hayle | 1,102 | +76 kWh |
| Helston | 1,110 | +84 kWh |
| Penryn | 1,062 | +36 kWh |
| Falmouth | 1,056 | +30 kWh |
| Truro | 1,052 | +26 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 Camborne: Solar panels in Camborne from OVO Solar & Battery
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