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Solar panels in Ferndown, priced before anyone visits.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 7,070 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed around your roof on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Ferndown, in numbers
PVGIS puts Ferndown at 1,112 kWh per kWp a year, 2% above our Dorset 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 | 42.5 |
| February | 59.6 |
| March | 97.5 |
| April | 125 |
| May | 133 |
| June | 134 |
| July | 137 |
| August | 120 |
| September | 103 |
| October | 70 |
| November | 50.8 |
| December | 38.6 |
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: Ferndown makes 1,112 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Ferndown is 20% above it.
How Ferndown compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Ferndown. It is one of 15 Dorset towns we track, and it ranks joint 4th of 15 for solar yield, a town of 13,428 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,112 kWh per kWp a year, 3.05 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £983 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £736 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Ferndown'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 Ferndown sits with Dorset, 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 Ferndown (50.80408, -1.89844), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
The network operator for Ferndown
Ferndown is served by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN): the town's centre falls inside its Southern 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 SSEN 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: SSEN says it can take up to 45 working days to issue a quotation for a generation connection above 3.68kW per phase and up to 50kW.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); SSEN, micro-generation connections page, checked 25 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Ferndown
A heat pump in Ferndown
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Ferndown, a 12-panel system makes about 250 kWh in December and 270 kWh in January, a fraction of its 870 kWh in July, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
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 Ferndown
Summer is where a car earns its place. In July, 12 panels in Ferndown make about 870 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
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Solar panel servicing and repair in Ferndown
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Ferndown as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Ferndown solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Ferndown?
About 7,070 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Ferndown: 1,112 kWh per kWp, or 3.05 peak sun hours a day on average. July is the strongest month, at about 870 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Ferndown?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Ferndown, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 7,070 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Ferndown, and what does it need from me?
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) covers Ferndown. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to SSEN within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. SSEN says it can take up to 45 working days to issue a quotation for a generation connection above 3.68kW per phase and up to 50kW.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Ferndown?
Around £736 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 6,136 kWh a 12-panel system in Ferndown 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 Ferndown get in December?
December is the low point: about 250 kWh from a 12-panel system in Ferndown, on PVGIS data, rising to 870 kWh in July. From November to February the same system makes about 1,220 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Ferndown compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Ferndown.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Ferndown |
|---|---|---|
| Ferndown | 1,112 | this town |
| West Moors | 1,112 | level |
| Wimborne Minster | 1,099 | −13 kWh |
| Bournemouth | 1,105 | −7 kWh |
| Verwood | 1,082 | −30 kWh |
| Poole | 1,097 | −15 kWh |
| Corfe Mullen | 1,094 | −18 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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