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Solar panels in Heanor, priced before anyone visits.
A 12-panel roof in Heanor makes about 6,130 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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How much a Heanor roof makes, month by month
PVGIS puts Heanor at 964 kWh per kWp a year, 2% above our Derbyshire county estimate. 68% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 33.6 |
| February | 50.2 |
| March | 85.5 |
| April | 109 |
| May | 121 |
| June | 114 |
| July | 119 |
| August | 108 |
| September | 89.9 |
| October | 61 |
| November | 42.3 |
| December | 32.1 |
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: Heanor makes 964 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Heanor is 4% above it.
How Heanor compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Heanor. It is one of 28 Derbyshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 13th of 28 for solar yield, a town of 24,678 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 964 kWh per kWp a year, 2.64 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £870 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £623 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Heanor'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 Amber Valley; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Heanor as a 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 Heanor at 53.01525, -1.34852 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
The network operator for Heanor
Heanor is served by National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED): the town's centre falls inside its East Midlands licence area on NESO's boundary map.
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 Heanor
A heat pump in Heanor
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Heanor make about 200 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Heanor comes down to the tariff and the flow temperature rather than the roof.
In England, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays £7,500 towards an air source or ground source heat pump and £2,500 towards an air-to-air one, with £1,500 more until March 2027 for homes heated by oil or LPG with no mains gas (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
Charging an EV in Heanor
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Heanor make about 770 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.
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 Heanor
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Heanor as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Heanor
How much electricity do solar panels make in Heanor?
About 6,130 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Heanor: 964 kWh per kWp, or 2.64 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 770 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Heanor?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Heanor, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,130 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Heanor, and what does it need from me?
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) covers Heanor. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to NGED within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. NGED's guaranteed standards give 45 working days for a low voltage generation quotation, with £80 paid for each working day late.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Heanor?
Around £623 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,194 kWh a 12-panel system in Heanor 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 Heanor get in December?
December is the low point: about 200 kWh from a 12-panel system in Heanor, on PVGIS data, rising to 770 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 1,010 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Heanor compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Heanor compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Heanor |
|---|---|---|
| Heanor | 964 | this town |
| Eastwood | 970 | +6 kWh |
| Ripley | 973 | +9 kWh |
| Ilkeston | 973 | +9 kWh |
| Somercotes and Swanwick | 965 | +1 kWh |
| Nuthall and Watnall | 976 | +12 kWh |
| Belper | 964 | level |
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 Heanor: Solar panels in Heanor from OVO Solar & Battery
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