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Solar panels in Dudley, priced before anyone visits.
A 12-panel roof in Dudley makes about 6,080 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 Dudley roof makes, month by month
PVGIS puts Dudley at 956 kWh per kWp a year, 1% above our Staffordshire 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 | 35 |
| February | 49.2 |
| March | 84.2 |
| April | 107 |
| May | 118 |
| June | 116 |
| July | 118 |
| August | 104 |
| September | 89.2 |
| October | 61.6 |
| November | 40.8 |
| December | 32.9 |
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 956, Dudley is 3% above it.
How Dudley compares
Dudley is one of 44 Staffordshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 25th of 44 for solar yield. The House of Commons Library settlement data classes it as a large town of 67,484 people. At 956 kWh per kWp a year, a typical 12 panel system here pays for itself in around 7.4 years on the 12p scenario: £864 of year one benefit against £6,360 installed, £247 of that benefit from cutting 26.32p imports with your own generation.
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 Dudley's own yield.
Dudley is its own local planning authority area, and its House of Commons Library settlement class is large 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 Dudley (52.50222, -2.09046), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
NGED and your Dudley connection
Dudley is served by National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED): the town's centre falls inside its West 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.
Beyond the panels: heating and car charging in Dudley
A heat pump in Dudley
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Dudley make about 210 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Dudley 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 Dudley
Summer is where a car earns its place. In July, 12 panels in Dudley 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).
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 Dudley
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Dudley as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Solar in Dudley: your questions answered
How much electricity do solar panels make in Dudley?
About 6,080 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Dudley: 956 kWh per kWp, or 2.62 peak sun hours a day on average. July is the strongest month, at about 750 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Dudley?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Dudley, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,080 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Dudley, and what does it need from me?
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) covers Dudley. 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 Dudley?
Around £617 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,143 kWh a 12-panel system in Dudley 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 Dudley get in December?
December is the low point: about 210 kWh from a 12-panel system in Dudley, on PVGIS data, rising to 750 kWh in July. From November to February the same system makes about 1,000 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Dudley compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Dudley.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Dudley |
|---|---|---|
| Dudley | 956 | this town |
| Rowley Regis | 965 | +9 kWh |
| Brierley Hill | 949 | −7 kWh |
| Cradley Heath | 947 | −9 kWh |
| Sedgley | 948 | −8 kWh |
| Coseley | 957 | +1 kWh |
| Tipton | 957 | +1 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.
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