Leicestershire
Solar panels in Enderby and Narborough.
Twelve panels here make about 6,300 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Enderby and Narborough, in numbers
From 34 kWh per kWp in December to 122 in July: a roof in Enderby and Narborough makes 3.6 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 990 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
Show the monthly figures
| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 36.2 |
| February | 51.1 |
| March | 85.7 |
| April | 111 |
| May | 122 |
| June | 118 |
| July | 122 |
| August | 109 |
| September | 93 |
| October | 63.7 |
| November | 44.2 |
| December | 34 |
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 990, Enderby and Narborough is 7% above it.
How Enderby and Narborough compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Enderby and Narborough. It is one of 26 Leicestershire towns we track, and it ranks joint 12th of 26 for solar yield, a town of 13,276 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 990 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 £890 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £643 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Enderby and Narborough'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.
Any planning application in Enderby and Narborough sits with Blaby, 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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Modelled for Enderby and Narborough at 52.58328, -1.20845 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
NGED and your Enderby and Narborough connection
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) owns and runs the local electricity network in Enderby and Narborough, as part of its East Midlands 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: 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.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Enderby and Narborough
A heat pump in Enderby and Narborough
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Enderby and Narborough, 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.
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 Enderby and Narborough
Summer is where a car earns its place. In July, 12 panels in Enderby and Narborough 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.
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 Enderby and Narborough
If a system in Enderby and Narborough is underperforming, start with the guides below: repair benchmarks, service scope, and the inverter question.
Enderby and Narborough solar questions
How much energy would 12 solar panels make in Enderby and Narborough?
Enderby and Narborough averages 2.71 peak sun hours a day, which PVGIS turns into 990 kWh per kWp a year. On a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp roof that is about 6,300 kWh, 68% of it between April and September.
What does a typical solar system cost in Enderby and Narborough?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Enderby and Narborough, 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.
Who is the network operator in Enderby and Narborough, 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 Enderby and Narborough?
Around £643 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,360 kWh a 12-panel system in Enderby and Narborough 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 Enderby and Narborough in the winter months?
December is the weakest month in Enderby and Narborough: 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 Enderby and Narborough 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 Enderby and Narborough |
|---|---|---|
| Enderby and Narborough | 990 | this town |
| Blaby and Whetstone | 993 | +3 kWh |
| Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe | 990 | level |
| Countesthorpe | 996 | +6 kWh |
| Broughton Astley | 991 | +1 kWh |
| Wigston | 997 | +7 kWh |
| Earl Shilton | 990 | level |
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 Enderby and Narborough
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
How to size a solar and battery system, properly
Usage, storage, connection, array. Four decisions, and the order between them matters.
Read the guide →Whole home backup or partial backup? The runtime arithmetic
Whole home backup sounds obvious until you do the runtime maths. Here is how to choose the right tier.
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 →Heat pump running costs versus a gas boiler, assumptions shown
Four numbers decide it: seasonal efficiency, flow temperature, tariff and heat demand.
Read the guide →Choosing a tariff when you have solar, a battery and an EV
Solar, battery and EV want different tariffs. How to work out which one to protect.
Read the guide →NAPIT, NICEIC and competent person schemes: who tells building control about your solar
Solar work is notifiable. A competent person scheme means your installation team notifies, not you.
Read the guide →Get my free quote
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