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A 12-panel roof in Greasby makes about 6,300 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.

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Sunlight in Greasby

Sunlight in Greasby, in numbers

From 29.4 kWh per kWp in December to 129.9 in May: a roof in Greasby makes 4.4 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 990 kWh per kWp across the year.

Map showing Greasby in Cheshire A simplified outline map of Cheshire with neighbouring counties shown faintly, and a pin marking the location of Greasby.
Greasby in Cheshire

Generation per kWp, month by month

Greasby, 990 kWh per kWp a year
Greasby, monthly generation per kWp Bar chart, twelve months January to December. Peak May at 130 kWh/kWp. Lowest December at 29.4 kWh/kWp. Full values are in the table below this chart. 149 0 JFMAMJJASOND 130
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Greasby, monthly generation per kWp - monthly figures (kWh/kWp)
MonthkWh/kWp
January33
February54.3
March88.6
April116
May130
June122
July121
August108
September89.6
October59.6
November38.9
December29.4

Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.

6,300kWh a year, 12 panels
830kWh in May, the peak
190kWh in December

Against Great Britain as a whole: Greasby makes 990 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Greasby is 7% above it.

How Greasby compares

Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Greasby. It is one of 45 Cheshire towns we track, and it ranks 2nd of 45 for solar yield, a town of 9,179 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 Greasby'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.

Planning applications here go through Wirral; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Greasby as a small town.

12 panels
530W panels. Most semi-detached roofs take 10 to 16 on one pitch.
Add a battery?
Installed prices. The named packages are the ones running on our current offers; the Duracell prices are for an installation alongside solar.
Electricity use
Export rate scenario
EV charger?
Estimated benefit, year one
£890
£74 a month · payback 7.1 yrs
System price, installed
£6,360
Simple payback
7.1 yrs
Generates a year
6,296 kWh
Exported
5,360 kWh at 12p
Where the money comes from
Solar you use, Export income, Off-peak shifting,

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Modelled for Greasby at 53.37705, -3.12006 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.

Local grid

SP Energy Networks and your Greasby connection

SP Energy Networks owns and runs the local electricity network in Greasby, as part of its North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire 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: SP Energy Networks is notified within 28 days of commissioning and nothing has to be approved first.

Above that, G99 means applying before the work is booked. 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 SP Energy Networks 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.

Aerial view of a row of red-brick heritage cottages with solar panels spaced along the roof ridge
Solar panels spaced neatly along a row of red-brick heritage cottages.
Beyond solar

Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Greasby

A heat pump in Greasby

In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Greasby make about 190 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Greasby comes down to the tariff and the flow temperature rather than the roof.

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).

How heat pumps work

Charging an EV in Greasby

Greasby's May output, about 830 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.

EV charging explained

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Solar panel servicing and repair in Greasby

If a system in Greasby is underperforming, start with the guides below: repair benchmarks, service scope, and the inverter question.

FAQs

Common questions about solar in Greasby

How much energy would 12 solar panels make in Greasby?

Greasby 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, 69% of it between April and September.

Is solar more expensive in Greasby?

Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Greasby, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 6,300 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.

Who is the network operator in Greasby, and do I need a G99 application?

The operator is SP Energy Networks. 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. 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 SP Energy Networks as it does every network operator. Your design call checks which route yours needs.

What could I earn from exporting in Greasby?

On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Greasby sends about 5,360 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £643. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.

How does solar perform in Greasby in the winter months?

December is the weakest month in Greasby: about 190 kWh from 12 panels, against 830 kWh in May. The panels still generate on bright winter days; they just cover a smaller share of what the house uses.

How Greasby compares with its neighbours

Same satellite dataset, same assumptions, so the differences are real geography rather than modelling noise.

TownkWh per kWp a yearvs Greasby
Greasby990this town
West Kirby991+1 kWh
Birkenhead974−16 kWh
Heswall985−5 kWh
Wallasey982−8 kWh
Bebington959−31 kWh
Neston969−21 kWh

Each row is a PVGIS v5.2 run at that town's centre with the same settings. Treat gaps of a few kWh as noise and gaps over about 30 kWh per kWp as real differences in sunshine.

Also for Greasby: Solar panels in Greasby from OVO Solar & Battery

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