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Solar panels in Herne Bay, priced before anyone visits.
A 12-panel roof in Herne Bay makes about 7,070 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 Herne Bay roof makes, month by month
From 39 kWh per kWp in December to 136.5 in July: a roof in Herne Bay makes 3.5 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 1,111 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 41.1 |
| February | 56.2 |
| March | 95.2 |
| April | 128 |
| May | 133 |
| June | 133 |
| July | 137 |
| August | 121 |
| September | 105 |
| October | 73.1 |
| November | 49.9 |
| December | 39 |
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: Herne Bay makes 1,111 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Herne Bay is 20% above it.
How Herne Bay compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Herne Bay. It is one of 44 Kent towns we track, and it ranks joint 9th of 44 for solar yield, a town of 24,867 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,111 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.
Every figure here assumes a clear, south-facing roof at 35 degrees. Yours will differ, which is what the free design call is for; until then, the calculator below tests panels, batteries and export rates on Herne Bay's own yield.
Planning applications here go through Canterbury; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Herne Bay 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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The figures use PVGIS for the centre of Herne Bay (51.3678, 1.13178), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
The network operator for Herne Bay
Herne Bay is served by UK Power Networks: the town's centre falls inside its South East England 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: UK Power Networks 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: 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 UK Power 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.
Beyond the panels: heating and car charging in Herne Bay
A heat pump in Herne Bay
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Herne Bay make about 250 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Herne Bay comes down to the tariff and the flow temperature rather than the roof.
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 Herne Bay
Summer is where a car earns its place. In July, 12 panels in Herne Bay 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.
If you rent, or own a flat, and have private off-street parking, the government chargepoint grant covers 75% of the cost, capped at £500 a socket, until 31 March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026). The calculator above prices 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 Herne Bay
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Herne Bay as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Solar in Herne Bay: your questions answered
How much electricity do solar panels make in Herne Bay?
About 7,070 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Herne Bay: 1,111 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 Herne Bay?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Herne Bay, 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 Herne Bay, and what does it need from me?
UK Power Networks covers Herne Bay. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to UK Power Networks within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. 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 UK Power Networks as it does every network operator.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Herne Bay?
Around £736 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 6,129 kWh a 12-panel system in Herne Bay 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 Herne Bay get in December?
December is the low point: about 250 kWh from a 12-panel system in Herne Bay, on PVGIS data, rising to 870 kWh in July. From November to February the same system makes about 1,180 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Herne Bay compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Herne Bay.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Herne Bay |
|---|---|---|
| Herne Bay | 1,111 | this town |
| Greenhill | 1,111 | level |
| Whitstable | 1,092 | −19 kWh |
| Canterbury | 1,094 | −17 kWh |
| Margate | 1,131 | +20 kWh |
| Faversham | 1,082 | −29 kWh |
| Ramsgate | 1,125 | +14 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 Herne Bay: Solar panels in Herne Bay from OVO Solar & Battery
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