Leicestershire
Solar panels in Countesthorpe, priced before anyone visits.
A 12-panel roof in Countesthorpe makes about 6,330 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 Countesthorpe roof makes, month by month
PVGIS puts Countesthorpe at 996 kWh per kWp a year, 2% above our Leicestershire county estimate. 68% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in July.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 36.2 |
| February | 51 |
| March | 86.6 |
| April | 113 |
| May | 122 |
| June | 118 |
| July | 123 |
| August | 110 |
| September | 93.7 |
| October | 64.4 |
| November | 44.7 |
| December | 34 |
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: Countesthorpe makes 996 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Countesthorpe is 8% above it.
How Countesthorpe compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Countesthorpe. It is one of 26 Leicestershire towns we track, and it ranks 6th of 26 for solar yield, a town of 7,649 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 996 kWh per kWp a year, 2.73 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £895 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £648 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Countesthorpe's own yield, and 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.
Planning applications here go through Blaby; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Countesthorpe 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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Modelled for Countesthorpe at 52.55484, -1.14767 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 Countesthorpe
Countesthorpe is served by National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED): the town's centre falls inside its East Midlands 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: NGED is notified within 28 days of commissioning and nothing has to be approved first.
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.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Countesthorpe
A heat pump in Countesthorpe
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Countesthorpe, a 12-panel system makes about 220 kWh in December and 230 kWh in January, a fraction of its 780 kWh in July, 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 Countesthorpe
Summer is where a car earns its place. In July, 12 panels in Countesthorpe 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.
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 Countesthorpe
If a system in Countesthorpe is underperforming, start with the guides below: repair benchmarks, service scope, and the inverter question.
Countesthorpe solar questions
How much energy would 12 solar panels make in Countesthorpe?
Countesthorpe averages 2.73 peak sun hours a day, which PVGIS turns into 996 kWh per kWp a year. On a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp roof that is about 6,330 kWh, 68% of it between April and September.
What does a typical solar system cost in Countesthorpe?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Countesthorpe, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,330 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Who is the network operator in Countesthorpe, and do I need a G99 application?
The operator is National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED). Most home systems use the G98 route, a notification within 28 days of switch-on for up to 3.68kW per phase, so nothing waits on the network. Above that, G99 applies and has to be granted first. NGED's guaranteed standards give 45 working days for a low voltage generation quotation, with £80 paid for each working day late. Your design call checks which route yours needs.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Countesthorpe?
Around £648 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,398 kWh a 12-panel system in Countesthorpe exports with typical use. Rates vary by supplier and some need their own tariff; the export rates table is dated and sourced.
How does solar perform in Countesthorpe in the winter months?
December is the weakest month in Countesthorpe: about 220 kWh from 12 panels, against 780 kWh in July. The panels still generate on bright winter days; they just cover a smaller share of what the house uses.
How Countesthorpe 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 Countesthorpe |
|---|---|---|
| Countesthorpe | 996 | this town |
| Blaby and Whetstone | 993 | −3 kWh |
| Wigston | 997 | +1 kWh |
| Enderby and Narborough | 990 | −6 kWh |
| Broughton Astley | 991 | −5 kWh |
| Oadby | 1,005 | +9 kWh |
| Leicester | 994 | −2 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.
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Further reading for Countesthorpe
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