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Solar panels in Heywood, priced before anyone visits.
About 5,580 kWh a year from 12 panels in Heywood, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Heywood roof makes, month by month
PVGIS puts Heywood at 878 kWh per kWp a year, 1% above our Lancashire county estimate. 69% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 25.7 |
| February | 45.9 |
| March | 78.6 |
| April | 103 |
| May | 114 |
| June | 108 |
| July | 108 |
| August | 94.8 |
| September | 80.5 |
| October | 54.3 |
| November | 37.9 |
| December | 27 |
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 878, Heywood is 5% below it.
How Heywood compares
Among the places we publish figures for, Heywood is one of 109 Lancashire towns we track, and it ranks joint 81st of 109 for solar yield. It is a medium town in the House of Commons Library classification, with 31,050 residents, and its roofs see 2.41 peak sun hours a day across the year. That drives the standard 12 panel model to 5,584 kWh of generation, of which around 4,647 kWh is exported at 12p for £558 a year, with £247 saved on electricity you would otherwise buy at 26.32p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Heywood'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 Heywood sits with Rochdale, and its official House of Commons Library settlement class is medium 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 Heywood (53.58862, -2.22773), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
Electricity North West and your Heywood connection
Electricity North West owns and runs the local electricity network in Heywood, as part of its North West England 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: Electricity North West 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 Electricity North West 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.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Heywood
A heat pump in Heywood
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Heywood, a 12-panel system makes about 170 kWh in December and 160 kWh in January, a fraction of its 730 kWh in May, 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 Heywood
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Heywood make about 730 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 Heywood
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Heywood as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Heywood
How much electricity do solar panels make in Heywood?
About 5,580 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Heywood: 878 kWh per kWp, or 2.41 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 730 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Heywood?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Heywood, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 5,580 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Heywood, and what does it need from me?
Electricity North West covers Heywood. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to Electricity North West 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 Electricity North West as it does every network operator.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Heywood?
Around £558 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 4,647 kWh a 12-panel system in Heywood 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 Heywood get in December?
December is the low point: about 170 kWh from a 12-panel system in Heywood, on PVGIS data, rising to 730 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 870 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Heywood compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Heywood compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Heywood |
|---|---|---|
| Heywood | 878 | this town |
| Middleton | 865 | −13 kWh |
| Bury | 893 | +15 kWh |
| Rochdale | 863 | −15 kWh |
| Whitefield | 895 | +17 kWh |
| Radcliffe | 893 | +15 kWh |
| Royton | 854 | −24 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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