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Solar panels in Cotgrave, priced before anyone visits.
A 12-panel roof in Cotgrave makes about 6,300 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 Cotgrave roof makes, month by month
From 34.9 kWh per kWp in December to 122.3 in May: a roof in Cotgrave makes 3.5 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 991 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 35.9 |
| February | 51.3 |
| March | 86.5 |
| April | 112 |
| May | 122 |
| June | 116 |
| July | 122 |
| August | 111 |
| September | 91.5 |
| October | 63.4 |
| November | 44.5 |
| December | 34.9 |
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 991, Cotgrave is 7% above it.
How Cotgrave compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Cotgrave. It is one of 29 Nottinghamshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 5th of 29 for solar yield, a town of 8,021 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 991 kWh per kWp a year, 2.71 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £891 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £644 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Cotgrave'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.
Planning applications here go through Rushcliffe; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Cotgrave 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 Cotgrave (52.91029, -1.03655), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
The network operator for Cotgrave
Cotgrave is served by National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED): the town's centre falls inside its East Midlands licence area on NESO's boundary map.
Most home systems stay within 3.68kW per phase of inverter output, which puts them on G98, a notification to NGED within 28 days of switch-on. Panel count does not decide it; the inverter and any battery do.
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 Cotgrave
A heat pump in Cotgrave
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Cotgrave, a 12-panel system makes about 220 kWh in December and 230 kWh in January, a fraction of its 780 kWh in May, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme, open in England and Wales, takes £7,500 off an air source or ground source heat pump, or £2,500 off an air-to-air unit. Homes on oil or LPG with no mains gas get £1,500 more until March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
Charging an EV in Cotgrave
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Cotgrave make about 780 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 Cotgrave
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Cotgrave as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Cotgrave
How much electricity do solar panels make in Cotgrave?
About 6,300 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Cotgrave: 991 kWh per kWp, or 2.71 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 780 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Cotgrave?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Cotgrave, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,300 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Cotgrave, and what does it need from me?
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) covers Cotgrave. 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 Cotgrave?
Around £644 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,366 kWh a 12-panel system in Cotgrave 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 Cotgrave get in December?
December is the low point: about 220 kWh from a 12-panel system in Cotgrave, on PVGIS data, rising to 780 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 1,060 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Cotgrave compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Cotgrave.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Cotgrave |
|---|---|---|
| Cotgrave | 991 | this town |
| Radcliffe on Trent | 991 | level |
| Keyworth | 986 | −5 kWh |
| West Bridgford | 983 | −8 kWh |
| Bingham | 993 | +2 kWh |
| Carlton | 985 | −6 kWh |
| Ruddington | 985 | −6 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 Cotgrave: Solar panels in Cotgrave from OVO Solar & Battery
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