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Independent guidance on solar and battery storage for Leeds homes in Yorkshire: a free remote design call first, then an MCS-certified installation team for your area if you decide to go ahead. PVGIS puts a roof in Leeds at 946 kWh per kWp a year, 2% below our Yorkshire county estimate.
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What a roof in Leeds can generate
Real satellite data for Leeds, real installed pricing, and the same honest model we run for every place we cover.
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.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, defaulted to Leeds's own yield, and at Leeds's 946 kWh per kWp it 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 Leeds; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Leeds as a 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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A 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in Leeds generates around 6,017 kWh a year, worth around £856 in year one on the 12p export scenario.
Generation is modelled from PVGIS satellite data for Leeds's 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, with the full methodology, sourcing and assumptions set out on our help page.
Local detail for 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.
Network operator (DNO): Northern Powergrid · G99 application
Planning authority: Leeds City Council
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
What could a roof in Leeds generate?
PVGIS puts a roof in Leeds at 946 kWh per kWp a year, 2.59 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons.
What does a typical solar system cost in Leeds?
A typical 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in Leeds costs around £6,360 installed, at £1,000 per kWp before any battery.
Would a system in Leeds need a G99 application?
Most home solar and battery systems qualify for the simpler G98 notification, made to the network operator (DNO) after installation rather than before. A minority, usually larger systems, need the fuller G99 process instead. Your design call checks which applies in Leeds before anything is booked; our G98 vs G99 guide explains the difference in full.
What could I earn from exporting in Leeds?
On the 12p export scenario, that 12 panel system sends about 5,080 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £610. The tariff guide compares the export rates that could apply to your setup.
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Read the guide →How Leeds compares with its neighbours
Same satellite dataset, same assumptions, so the differences are real geography rather than modelling noise.
| Town | kWh per kWp | Peak sun hours | vs Leeds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds | 946 | 2.59 | — |
| Morley (Leeds) | 947 | 2.60 | +1 kWh |
| Pudsey | 936 | 2.57 | -10 kWh |
| Rothwell (Leeds) | 947 | 2.59 | +1 kWh |
| East Ardsley | 947 | 2.59 | +1 kWh |
| Yeadon | 940 | 2.58 | -6 kWh |
| Garforth | 954 | 2.61 | +8 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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