Nottinghamshire
Solar panels in Clifton, priced before anyone visits.
A 12-panel roof in Clifton makes about 6,250 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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How much a Clifton roof makes, month by month
PVGIS puts Clifton at 983 kWh per kWp a year, 1% below our Nottinghamshire 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 | 35.5 |
| February | 51.4 |
| March | 85.5 |
| April | 111 |
| May | 122 |
| June | 116 |
| July | 121 |
| August | 110 |
| September | 91.3 |
| October | 62.2 |
| November | 43.7 |
| December | 34.2 |
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 983, Clifton is 6% above it.
How Clifton compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Clifton. It is one of 29 Nottinghamshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 13th of 29 for solar yield, a town of 23,337 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 983 kWh per kWp a year, 2.69 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £885 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £638 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Clifton'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 Clifton sits with Nottingham, 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 Clifton at 52.90465, -1.1812 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
The network operator for Clifton
The distribution network operator (DNO) for Clifton is National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED), which runs the East Midlands licence area.
G98 is the simple route. If the inverter, plus any battery, stays at or under 3.68kW per phase, NGED only has to be told within 28 days after the system is commissioned.
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.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Clifton
A heat pump in Clifton
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Clifton, a 12-panel system makes about 220 kWh in December and 230 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 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 Clifton
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Clifton 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.
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 Clifton
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Clifton as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Clifton
How much electricity do solar panels make in Clifton?
About 6,250 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Clifton: 983 kWh per kWp, or 2.69 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 770 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Clifton?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Clifton, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,250 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Clifton, and what does it need from me?
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) covers Clifton. 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 Clifton?
Around £638 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,315 kWh a 12-panel system in Clifton 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 Clifton get in December?
December is the low point: about 220 kWh from a 12-panel system in Clifton, on PVGIS data, rising to 770 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 1,050 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Clifton 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 Clifton |
|---|---|---|
| Clifton | 983 | this town |
| Ruddington | 985 | +2 kWh |
| Beeston | 983 | level |
| West Bridgford | 983 | level |
| Stapleford | 980 | −3 kWh |
| Nottingham | 978 | −5 kWh |
| Long Eaton | 986 | +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 Clifton: Solar panels in Clifton from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Clifton
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
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