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Independent guidance on solar and battery storage for Chatham homes in Kent: a free remote design call first, then an MCS-certified installation team for your area if you decide to go ahead. PVGIS puts a roof in Chatham at 1,043 kWh per kWp a year, 3% below our Kent county estimate.
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What a roof in Chatham can generate
Real satellite data for Chatham, real installed pricing, and the same honest model we run for every place we cover.
How Chatham compares
Chatham is one of 44 Kent towns we track, and it ranks joint 35th of 44 for solar yield. The House of Commons Library settlement data classes it as a large town of 79,529 people. At 1,043 kWh per kWp a year, a typical 12 panel system here pays for itself in around 6.8 years on the 12p scenario: £930 of year one benefit against £6,360 of installed hardware, £247 of that benefit from cutting 26.32p imports with your own generation.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, defaulted to Chatham's own yield, and at Chatham's 1,043 kWh per kWp it 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.
Medway is the planning authority covering Chatham, which the House of Commons Library classes as a large 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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A 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in Chatham generates around 6,633 kWh a year, worth around £930 in year one on the 12p export scenario.
Generation is modelled from PVGIS satellite data for Chatham's own coordinates (51.35583, 0.5303), using the same 26.32p/kWh import value and £1,000 per kWp installed pricing as every Clearline estimate, with the full methodology, sourcing and assumptions set out on our help page.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Chatham
Faults, servicing and ageing inverters follow the same economics in Chatham as anywhere else, and the guides below price them plainly.
Common questions about solar in Chatham
What could a roof in Chatham generate?
PVGIS puts a roof in Chatham at 1,043 kWh per kWp a year, 2.86 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons.
What does a typical solar system cost in Chatham?
A typical 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in Chatham costs around £6,360 installed, at £1,000 per kWp before any battery.
Would a system in Chatham need a G99 application?
Most home solar and battery systems qualify for the simpler G98 notification, made to the network operator (DNO) after installation rather than before. A minority, usually larger systems, need the fuller G99 process instead. Your design call checks which applies in Chatham before anything is booked; our G98 vs G99 guide explains the difference in full.
What could I earn from exporting in Chatham?
On the 12p export scenario, that 12 panel system sends about 5,697 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £684. The tariff guide compares the export rates that could apply to your setup.
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Reading for Chatham homeowners
Independent, sourced and dated. The same ground we cover on your free call.
How to clean solar panels, and whether you need to at all
Cleaning is oversold and pigeon mesh is undersold. The numbers behind both.
Read the guide →How much a battery saves by charging on cheap night rates
What charging at 8p and using at 26.11p is actually worth over a year.
Read the guide →What it really costs to charge an EV at home versus in public
Home off-peak charging costs a fraction of the public price. The arithmetic, and the tariff it depends on.
Read the guide →Are air source heat pumps any good? What owners actually report
The UK's largest survey found 80% of heat pump owners satisfied, against 70% for gas boilers.
Read the guide →EV tariffs compared: the cheapest overnight windows
Overnight rates of 6.99p to 9p against a 26.11p capped average, compared.
Read the guide →Your MCS certificate: what it shows, when it arrives, and how a Smart Export Guarantee supplier uses it
The document your export payments hang on. Who issues it, what it shows, and how to get a copy.
Read the guide →How Chatham compares with its neighbours
Same satellite dataset, same assumptions, so the differences are real geography rather than modelling noise.
| Town | kWh per kWp | Peak sun hours | vs Chatham |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chatham | 1,043 | 2.86 | — |
| Gillingham (Medway) | 1,047 | 2.87 | +4 kWh |
| Rochester | 1,043 | 2.86 | level |
| Snodland | 1,051 | 2.88 | +8 kWh |
| Hoo St Werburgh | 1,057 | 2.90 | +14 kWh |
| Larkfield | 1,059 | 2.90 | +16 kWh |
| Maidstone | 1,056 | 2.89 | +13 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 Chatham: Solar panels in Chatham from OVO Solar & Battery