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Solar panels in Fence Houses, designed on a free call.
About 6,030 kWh a year from 12 panels in Fence Houses, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Fence Houses roof makes, month by month
From 28.2 kWh per kWp in December to 123.3 in May: a roof in Fence Houses makes 4.4 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 948 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 31.2 |
| February | 48.6 |
| March | 82.5 |
| April | 109 |
| May | 123 |
| June | 113 |
| July | 119 |
| August | 106 |
| September | 88.8 |
| October | 59.3 |
| November | 40.2 |
| December | 28.2 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 948 kWh per kWp in Fence Houses against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Fence Houses 2% above it.
How Fence Houses compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Fence Houses. It is one of 35 Durham towns we track, and it ranks 15th of 35 for solar yield, a town of 7,762 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 948 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 £858 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £611 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Fence Houses' 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 Fence Houses sits with Sunderland, 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 Fence Houses (54.84442, -1.50215), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
Northern Powergrid and your Fence Houses connection
Fence Houses is served by Northern Powergrid: the town's centre falls inside its North East England 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 Northern Powergrid within 28 days of switch-on. Panel count does not decide it; the inverter and any battery do.
Above that, G99 means applying before the work is booked. Northern Powergrid publishes a guaranteed standard of 45 working days to quote for a low voltage generation connection.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); Northern Powergrid, generation connections page, checked 25 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Fence Houses
A heat pump in Fence Houses
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Fence Houses, a 12-panel system makes about 180 kWh in December and 200 kWh in January, a fraction of its 780 kWh in May, 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 Fence Houses
Fence Houses' May output, about 780 kWh from 12 panels, is several times the 70 kWh or so a typical home uses in daylight that month on our calculator's settings. Daytime charging turns that surplus into miles.
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 Fence Houses
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Fence Houses as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Fence Houses solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Fence Houses?
About 6,030 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Fence Houses: 948 kWh per kWp, or 2.60 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 780 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Fence Houses?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Fence Houses, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 6,030 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Fence Houses, and what does it need from me?
Northern Powergrid covers Fence Houses. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to Northern Powergrid within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. Northern Powergrid publishes a guaranteed standard of 45 working days to quote for a low voltage generation connection.
What could I earn from exporting in Fence Houses?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Fence Houses sends about 5,093 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £611. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Fence Houses get in December?
December is the low point: about 180 kWh from a 12-panel system in Fence Houses, on PVGIS data, rising to 780 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 940 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Fence Houses compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Fence Houses.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Fence Houses |
|---|---|---|
| Fence Houses | 948 | this town |
| Houghton-le-Spring | 953 | +5 kWh |
| Shiney Row and Penshaw | 959 | +11 kWh |
| Hetton-le-Hole | 952 | +4 kWh |
| Chester-le-Street | 936 | −12 kWh |
| Washington | 952 | +4 kWh |
| Birtley | 944 | −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 Fence Houses: Solar panels in Fence Houses from OVO Solar & Battery
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