Staffordshire
Solar panels in Cradley Heath, priced before anyone visits.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 6,020 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed around your roof on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Cradley Heath, in numbers
PVGIS puts Cradley Heath at 947 kWh per kWp a year, level with our Staffordshire county estimate. 69% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in July.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 32.4 |
| February | 48.7 |
| March | 84.3 |
| April | 108 |
| May | 118 |
| June | 116 |
| July | 118 |
| August | 104 |
| September | 89.4 |
| October | 61.6 |
| November | 38.2 |
| December | 29.3 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 947 kWh per kWp in Cradley Heath against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Cradley Heath 2% above it.
How Cradley Heath compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Cradley Heath. It is one of 44 Staffordshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 38th of 44 for solar yield, a town of 19,676 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 947 kWh per kWp a year, 2.60 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £857 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £610 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 Cradley Heath's own yield.
Any planning application in Cradley Heath sits with Sandwell, 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 Cradley Heath (52.47201, -2.06788), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
NGED and your Cradley Heath connection
Cradley Heath sits in National Grid Electricity Distribution's West Midlands licence area, so NGED is the network operator (DNO) any solar panels or battery here are registered with.
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.
Beyond the panels: heating and car charging in Cradley Heath
A heat pump in Cradley Heath
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Cradley Heath make about 190 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Cradley Heath comes down to the tariff and the flow temperature rather than the roof.
Grant support in England comes from the Boiler Upgrade Scheme: £7,500 for an air source or ground source heat pump, £2,500 for air-to-air, and an extra £1,500 until March 2027 where the home is heated by oil or LPG off the gas grid (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
Charging an EV in Cradley Heath
Summer is where a car earns its place. In July, 12 panels in Cradley Heath make about 750 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.
The calculator above includes a 7.4kW smart charger from £1,100 installed. Renters and flat owners with off-street parking can claim 75% of a chargepoint's cost, up to £500 per socket, until 31 March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
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 Cradley Heath
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Cradley Heath as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Cradley Heath
How much electricity do solar panels make in Cradley Heath?
About 6,020 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Cradley Heath: 947 kWh per kWp, or 2.60 peak sun hours a day on average. July is the strongest month, at about 750 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Cradley Heath?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Cradley Heath, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,020 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Cradley Heath, and what does it need from me?
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) covers Cradley Heath. 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 Cradley Heath?
Around £610 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,086 kWh a 12-panel system in Cradley Heath 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 Cradley Heath get in December?
December is the low point: about 190 kWh from a 12-panel system in Cradley Heath, on PVGIS data, rising to 750 kWh in July. From November to February the same system makes about 950 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Cradley Heath 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 Cradley Heath |
|---|---|---|
| Cradley Heath | 947 | this town |
| Halesowen | 957 | +10 kWh |
| Rowley Regis | 965 | +18 kWh |
| Brierley Hill | 949 | +2 kWh |
| Dudley | 956 | +9 kWh |
| Oldbury | 965 | +18 kWh |
| Stourbridge | 949 | +2 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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