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Solar panels in Houghton Regis, priced before anyone visits.
A 12-panel roof in Houghton Regis makes about 6,440 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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Sunlight in Houghton Regis, in numbers
PVGIS puts Houghton Regis at 1,012 kWh per kWp a year, 2% below our Bedfordshire county estimate. 68% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in July.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 37.8 |
| February | 51.1 |
| March | 88.1 |
| April | 113 |
| May | 121 |
| June | 123 |
| July | 124 |
| August | 111 |
| September | 95.7 |
| October | 66 |
| November | 45.4 |
| December | 35.6 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 1,012 kWh per kWp in Houghton Regis against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Houghton Regis 9% above it.
How Houghton Regis compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Houghton Regis. It is one of 15 Bedfordshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 13th of 15 for solar yield, a town of 20,606 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,012 kWh per kWp a year, 2.77 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £907 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £660 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Houghton Regis' 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 Houghton Regis sits with Central Bedfordshire, and its official House of Commons Library settlement class is 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 Houghton Regis (51.90733, -0.51695), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
UK Power Networks and your Houghton Regis connection
UK Power Networks owns and runs the local electricity network in Houghton Regis, as part of its East 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: 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.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Houghton Regis
A heat pump in Houghton Regis
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Houghton Regis, a 12-panel system makes about 230 kWh in December and 240 kWh in January, a fraction of its 790 kWh in July, 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 Houghton Regis
Summer is where a car earns its place. In July, 12 panels in Houghton Regis make about 790 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).
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 Houghton Regis
If a system in Houghton Regis is underperforming, start with the guides below: repair benchmarks, service scope, and the inverter question.
Houghton Regis solar questions
How much energy would 12 solar panels make in Houghton Regis?
Houghton Regis averages 2.77 peak sun hours a day, which PVGIS turns into 1,012 kWh per kWp a year. On a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp roof that is about 6,440 kWh, 68% of it between April and September.
What does a typical solar system cost in Houghton Regis?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Houghton Regis, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,440 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Who is the network operator in Houghton Regis, and do I need a G99 application?
The operator is UK Power 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 UK Power Networks as it does every network operator. Your design call checks which route yours needs.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Houghton Regis?
Around £660 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,500 kWh a 12-panel system in Houghton Regis exports with typical use. Rates vary by supplier and some need their own tariff; the export rates table is dated and sourced.
How does solar perform in Houghton Regis in the winter months?
December is the weakest month in Houghton Regis: about 230 kWh from 12 panels, against 790 kWh in July. The panels still generate on bright winter days; they just cover a smaller share of what the house uses.
How Houghton Regis compares with its neighbours
Same satellite dataset, same assumptions, so the differences are real geography rather than modelling noise.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Houghton Regis |
|---|---|---|
| Houghton Regis | 1,012 | this town |
| Dunstable | 1,012 | level |
| Luton | 1,022 | +10 kWh |
| Leighton Buzzard | 1,012 | level |
| Flitwick | 1,023 | +11 kWh |
| Ampthill | 1,024 | +12 kWh |
| Harpenden | 1,017 | +5 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.
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Further reading for Houghton Regis
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