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Solar panels in Hexham, priced before anyone visits.
About 5,830 kWh a year from 12 panels in Hexham, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Hexham, in numbers
Hexham's best month is May, at 120.6 kWh per kWp; December manages 25.7. Over the year that comes to 917 kWh per kWp, 2% above our Northumberland county estimate.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 28.9 |
| February | 49.5 |
| March | 80.6 |
| April | 104 |
| May | 121 |
| June | 109 |
| July | 116 |
| August | 103 |
| September | 84.8 |
| October | 56.5 |
| November | 38.9 |
| December | 25.7 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
Our GB average is 925 kWh per kWp a year, the mean of the 85 county PVGIS estimates we publish; at 917, Hexham is 1% below it.
How Hexham compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Hexham. It is one of 18 Northumberland towns we track, and it ranks 18th of 18 for solar yield, a town of 11,264 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 917 kWh per kWp a year, 2.51 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £834 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £587 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Hexham's own yield, and prices a 12 panel system at £6,360 installed before any battery. Your free design call reworks every number for your actual roof, its shading and your usage.
Planning applications here go through Northumberland; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Hexham 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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Generation is modelled from PVGIS satellite data for Hexham's own coordinates (54.97032, -2.10225), using the same 26.32p/kWh import value and £1,000 per kWp installed pricing as every Clearline estimate; the methodology is on our help page.
Northern Powergrid and your Hexham connection
Hexham is served by Northern Powergrid: the town's centre falls inside its North 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: Northern Powergrid 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: 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.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Hexham
A heat pump in Hexham
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Hexham make about 160 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Hexham 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).
Charging an EV in Hexham
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Hexham 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.
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).
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 Hexham
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Hexham as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Solar in Hexham: your questions answered
How much electricity do solar panels make in Hexham?
About 5,830 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Hexham: 917 kWh per kWp, or 2.51 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 770 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Hexham?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Hexham, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 5,830 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Hexham, and what does it need from me?
Northern Powergrid covers Hexham. 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 happens to the solar I do not use in Hexham?
Around £587 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 4,895 kWh a 12-panel system in Hexham 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 Hexham get in December?
December is the low point: about 160 kWh from a 12-panel system in Hexham, on PVGIS data, rising to 770 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 910 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Hexham compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Hexham compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Hexham |
|---|---|---|
| Hexham | 917 | this town |
| Prudhoe | 924 | +7 kWh |
| Crawcrook and Greenside | 927 | +10 kWh |
| Consett | 928 | +11 kWh |
| Ryton | 930 | +13 kWh |
| Ponteland | 937 | +20 kWh |
| Blaydon | 934 | +17 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 Hexham: Solar panels in Hexham from OVO Solar & Battery
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