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Solar panels in Cleckheaton, designed on a free call.
About 5,930 kWh a year from 12 panels in Cleckheaton, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Cleckheaton roof makes, month by month
PVGIS puts Cleckheaton at 932 kWh per kWp a year, 3% below our Yorkshire 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 | 31.7 |
| February | 48.6 |
| March | 82.3 |
| April | 106 |
| May | 118 |
| June | 110 |
| July | 116 |
| August | 106 |
| September | 85.9 |
| October | 58.4 |
| November | 38.9 |
| December | 31 |
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: Cleckheaton makes 932 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Cleckheaton is 1% above it.
How Cleckheaton compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Cleckheaton. It is one of 122 Yorkshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 96th of 122 for solar yield, a town of 12,141 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 932 kWh per kWp a year, 2.55 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £846 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £599 from export at 12p.
Every figure here assumes a clear, south-facing roof at 35 degrees. Yours will differ, which is what the free design call is for; until then, the calculator below tests panels, batteries and export rates on Cleckheaton's own yield.
Planning applications here go through Kirklees; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Cleckheaton 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 Cleckheaton (53.72602, -1.72014), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
Northern Powergrid and your Cleckheaton connection
Cleckheaton is served by Northern Powergrid: the town's centre falls inside its Yorkshire licence area on NESO's boundary map.
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: Northern Powergrid is notified within 28 days of commissioning and nothing has to be approved first.
Above that, G99 means applying before the work is booked. Northern Powergrid publishes a guaranteed standard of 45 working days to quote for a low voltage generation connection.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); Northern Powergrid, generation connections page, checked 25 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Beyond the panels: heating and car charging in Cleckheaton
A heat pump in Cleckheaton
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Cleckheaton make about 200 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Cleckheaton 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 Cleckheaton
Cleckheaton's May output, about 750 kWh from 12 panels, is several times the 70 kWh or so a typical home uses in daylight that month on our calculator's settings. Daytime charging turns that surplus into miles.
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.
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 Cleckheaton
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Cleckheaton as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Cleckheaton
How much electricity do solar panels make in Cleckheaton?
About 5,930 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Cleckheaton: 932 kWh per kWp, or 2.55 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 750 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Cleckheaton?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Cleckheaton, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 5,930 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Cleckheaton, and what does it need from me?
Northern Powergrid covers Cleckheaton. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to Northern Powergrid within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. Northern Powergrid publishes a guaranteed standard of 45 working days to quote for a low voltage generation connection.
What could I earn from exporting in Cleckheaton?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Cleckheaton sends about 4,991 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £599. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Cleckheaton get in December?
December is the low point: about 200 kWh from a 12-panel system in Cleckheaton, on PVGIS data, rising to 750 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 960 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Cleckheaton 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 Cleckheaton |
|---|---|---|
| Cleckheaton | 932 | this town |
| Liversedge | 931 | −1 kWh |
| Gomersal and Birkenshaw | 941 | +9 kWh |
| Heckmondwike | 940 | +8 kWh |
| Brighouse | 928 | −4 kWh |
| Batley | 944 | +12 kWh |
| Mirfield | 948 | +16 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.
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