Lancashire
Solar panels in Eccles, priced before anyone visits.
About 5,810 kWh a year from 12 panels in Eccles, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Eccles, in numbers
PVGIS puts Eccles at 913 kWh per kWp a year, 5% above our Lancashire county estimate. 69% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 28.5 |
| February | 47.8 |
| March | 81 |
| April | 106 |
| May | 119 |
| June | 112 |
| July | 112 |
| August | 98.9 |
| September | 84.3 |
| October | 57.4 |
| November | 38.7 |
| December | 28.4 |
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: Eccles makes 913 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Eccles is 1% below it.
How Eccles compares
Among the places we publish figures for, Eccles is one of 109 Lancashire towns we track, and it ranks joint 53rd of 109 for solar yield. It is a medium town in the House of Commons Library classification, with 42,713 residents, and its roofs see 2.50 peak sun hours a day across the year. That drives the standard 12 panel model to 5,807 kWh of generation, of which around 4,870 kWh is exported at 12p for £584 a year, with £247 saved on electricity you would otherwise buy at 26.32p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Eccles' 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.
Any planning application in Eccles sits with Salford, and its official House of Commons Library settlement class is medium 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 Eccles (53.48387, -2.35737), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
The network operator for Eccles
Electricity North West owns and runs the local electricity network in Eccles, as part of its North West England licence area.
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: Electricity North West 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: 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.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Eccles
A heat pump in Eccles
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Eccles make about 180 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Eccles 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 Eccles
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Eccles 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).
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 Eccles
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Eccles as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Solar in Eccles: your questions answered
How much electricity do solar panels make in Eccles?
About 5,810 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Eccles: 913 kWh per kWp, or 2.50 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 750 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Eccles?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Eccles, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 5,810 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Eccles, and what does it need from me?
Electricity North West covers Eccles. 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 happens to the solar I do not use in Eccles?
Around £584 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 4,870 kWh a 12-panel system in Eccles 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 Eccles get in December?
December is the low point: about 180 kWh from a 12-panel system in Eccles, on PVGIS data, rising to 750 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 910 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Eccles compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Eccles.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Eccles |
|---|---|---|
| Eccles | 913 | this town |
| Swinton (Salford) | 901 | −12 kWh |
| Worsley | 909 | −4 kWh |
| Urmston | 913 | level |
| Old Trafford | 908 | −5 kWh |
| Pendlebury and Clifton | 899 | −14 kWh |
| Walkden | 917 | +4 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 Eccles: Solar panels in Eccles from OVO Solar & Battery
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Guides worth reading before your call
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
Why your inverter is smaller than your panel array, and why that is correct
More panel capacity than inverter capacity is a deliberate design choice.
Read the guide →Does a standalone battery actually pay back?
No panels means one job: buy cheap, use later. The tariff decides whether it pays.
Read the guide →What it really costs to charge an EV at home versus in public
Home off-peak charging costs a fraction of the public price. The arithmetic, and the tariff it depends on.
Read the guide →Are heat pumps worth it? The real 2026 numbers
Electricity costs 3.3x gas per kWh. A heat pump is about 3x as efficient. The numbers nearly cancel out.
Read the guide →Why the best export rates always carry conditions
The top export rates are acquisition offers. Here is how to price the condition.
Read the guide →G98 or G99: which one applies, what the application involves, and how long it takes
The G98 line sits at 3.68kW per phase. Above it, your network operator has to say yes first.
Read the guide →Get my free quote
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