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Solar panels in Leeds, designed on a free call.
About 6,020 kWh a year from 12 panels in Leeds, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Leeds, in numbers
Leeds' best month is May, at 118.8 kWh per kWp; December manages 31.7. Over the year that comes to 946 kWh per kWp, 2% below our Yorkshire county estimate.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 32.7 |
| February | 50.9 |
| March | 83.6 |
| April | 107 |
| May | 119 |
| June | 111 |
| July | 116 |
| August | 107 |
| September | 86.5 |
| October | 59.9 |
| November | 41 |
| December | 31.7 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 946 kWh per kWp in Leeds against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Leeds 2% above it.
How Leeds compares
Leeds is one of 122 Yorkshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 78th of 122 for solar yield. The House of Commons Library settlement classification puts it in the core city class, with a population of 564,705, which makes it one of the largest places we publish figures for. Scale changes nothing about the physics: PVGIS gives a roof here 946 kWh per kWp a year, 2.59 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and on the 12p scenario about £247 of the year one benefit comes from solar you use yourself, with export income adding £610.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Leeds' 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.
Leeds is its own local planning authority area, and its House of Commons Library settlement class is core city.
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 Leeds' own coordinates (53.80999, -1.54873), 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 Leeds connection
Leeds is served by Northern Powergrid: the town's centre falls inside its Yorkshire licence area on NESO's boundary map.
Most home systems stay within 3.68kW per phase of inverter output, which puts them on G98, a notification to Northern Powergrid within 28 days of switch-on. Panel count does not decide it; the inverter and any battery do.
Above that, G99 means applying before the work is booked. 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.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Leeds
A heat pump in Leeds
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Leeds make about 200 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Leeds 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 Leeds
Leeds' May output, about 760 kWh from 12 panels, is several times the 70 kWh or so a typical home uses in daylight that month on our calculator's settings. Daytime charging turns that surplus into miles.
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.
What the named kit costs, installed
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
What else is true of Leeds
Leeds City Council's 2025 housing assessment counts 69% of homes as houses, split fairly evenly between terraced (27.6%) and semi-detached (30.6%), with a further quarter in flats. Much of the terraced share is Victorian and Edwardian back-to-back housing, the largest surviving collection of that house type anywhere in the UK, so orientation and the shadow cast by neighbouring roofs and chimneys tend to decide the usable panel area more than the size of the roof itself.
Leeds sits in Northern Powergrid territory, whose own published figure for a standard low voltage generation quotation is 45 working days, with most single home systems using the quicker 28-day G98 route instead. Leeds City Council is the planning authority and lists 80 conservation areas across the district, where its own guidance confirms permitted development rights, including for some solar installations, are more restricted than elsewhere.
The council's Local Plan carbon policy is built around Leeds' own climate emergency commitment to reach zero carbon by 2030. The city is also home to one of the region's larger solar projects: Banks Renewables has planning permission for the 50MW Barnsdale Solar Energy Park between Kippax and Allerton Bywater, and has applied separately to add 40MW of battery storage on the same site.
Planning authority: Leeds City Council
Sources: leeds.gov.uk · leeds.gov.uk
Solar panel servicing and repair in Leeds
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Leeds as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Leeds
How much electricity do solar panels make in Leeds?
About 6,020 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Leeds: 946 kWh per kWp, or 2.59 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 760 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Leeds?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Leeds, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 6,020 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Leeds, and what does it need from me?
Northern Powergrid covers Leeds. 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 could I earn from exporting in Leeds?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Leeds sends about 5,080 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £610. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Leeds get in December?
December is the low point: about 200 kWh from a 12-panel system in Leeds, on PVGIS data, rising to 760 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 990 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Leeds compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Leeds.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Leeds |
|---|---|---|
| Leeds | 946 | this town |
| Morley | 947 | +1 kWh |
| Pudsey | 936 | −10 kWh |
| Rothwell (Leeds) | 947 | +1 kWh |
| East Ardsley | 947 | +1 kWh |
| Yeadon | 940 | −6 kWh |
| Garforth | 954 | +8 kWh |
Same PVGIS v5.2 query for every town. Small differences are within year-to-year weather; more than about 30 kWh per kWp apart is geography.
Also for Leeds: Solar panels in Leeds from OVO Solar & Battery
Also near Leeds
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