Lancashire
Solar panels in Colne, designed on a free call.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 5,430 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed around your roof on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Colne roof makes, month by month
PVGIS puts Colne at 853 kWh per kWp a year, 2% below our Lancashire county estimate. 71% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 22.7 |
| February | 42.4 |
| March | 72.5 |
| April | 103 |
| May | 114 |
| June | 107 |
| July | 110 |
| August | 95.2 |
| September | 78.9 |
| October | 52 |
| November | 34.2 |
| December | 21.3 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 853 kWh per kWp in Colne against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Colne 8% below it.
How Colne compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Colne. It is one of 109 Lancashire towns we track, and it ranks joint 105th of 109 for solar yield, a town of 19,539 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 853 kWh per kWp a year, 2.34 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £786 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £539 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Colne'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 Colne sits with Pendle, 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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The figures use PVGIS for the centre of Colne (53.8572, -2.16886), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
The network operator for Colne
The distribution network operator (DNO) for Colne is Electricity North West, which runs the North West England licence area.
G98 is the simple route. If the inverter, plus any battery, stays at or under 3.68kW per phase, Electricity North West only has to be told within 28 days after the system is commissioned.
Above that, G99 means applying before the work is booked. 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 Electricity North West 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.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Colne
A heat pump in Colne
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Colne, a 12-panel system makes about 140 kWh in December and 140 kWh in January, a fraction of its 730 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 Colne
Colne's May output, about 730 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.
The packages, priced before anyone visits
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Colne
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Colne as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Colne solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Colne?
About 5,430 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Colne: 853 kWh per kWp, or 2.34 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 730 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Colne?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Colne, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 5,430 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Colne, and what does it need from me?
Electricity North West covers Colne. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to Electricity North West 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 Electricity North West as it does every network operator.
What could I earn from exporting in Colne?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Colne sends about 4,488 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £539. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Colne get in December?
December is the low point: about 140 kWh from a 12-panel system in Colne, on PVGIS data, rising to 730 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 770 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Colne 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 Colne |
|---|---|---|
| Colne | 853 | this town |
| Nelson | 864 | +11 kWh |
| Brierfield | 863 | +10 kWh |
| Barnoldswick | 864 | +11 kWh |
| Burnley | 863 | +10 kWh |
| Padiham | 864 | +11 kWh |
| Cross Hills and Steeton | 883 | +30 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 Colne: Solar panels in Colne from OVO Solar & Battery
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