Staffordshire
Solar panels in Leek, designed on a free call.
About 5,790 kWh a year from 12 panels in Leek, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Leek, in numbers
From 26.4 kWh per kWp in December to 117.5 in May: a roof in Leek makes 4.5 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 910 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 28.3 |
| February | 45.1 |
| March | 79.1 |
| April | 108 |
| May | 118 |
| June | 113 |
| July | 113 |
| August | 101 |
| September | 86.2 |
| October | 55.4 |
| November | 38 |
| December | 26.4 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 910 kWh per kWp in Leek against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Leek 2% below it.
How Leek compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Leek. It is one of 44 Staffordshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 43rd of 44 for solar yield, a town of 19,539 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 910 kWh per kWp a year, 2.49 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £829 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £582 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Leek'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.
Planning applications here go through Staffordshire Moorlands; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Leek 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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The figures use PVGIS for the centre of Leek (53.10448, -2.02761), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
NGED and your Leek connection
The distribution network operator (DNO) for Leek is National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED), which runs the West Midlands licence area.
For a typical home the paperwork is light: a system of up to 3.68kW per phase goes through G98, which means NGED is notified within 28 days of switch-on rather than asked beforehand.
Above that, G99 means applying before the work is booked. NGED's guaranteed standards give 45 working days for a low voltage generation quotation, with £80 paid for each working day late.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); NGED, guaranteed standards of performance table, checked 25 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Leek
A heat pump in Leek
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Leek, a 12-panel system makes about 170 kWh in December and 180 kWh in January, a fraction of its 750 kWh in May, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
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 Leek
Leek's May output, about 750 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.
Renters and flat owners with private off-street parking can get 75% off a chargepoint and its installation, up to £500 per socket, until 31 March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026). The calculator above adds a 7.4kW smart charger from £1,100 installed.
Installed prices, the same in every town
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Leek
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Leek as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Leek solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Leek?
About 5,790 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Leek: 910 kWh per kWp, or 2.49 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 750 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Leek?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Leek, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 5,790 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Leek, and what does it need from me?
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) covers Leek. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to NGED within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. NGED's guaranteed standards give 45 working days for a low voltage generation quotation, with £80 paid for each working day late.
What could I earn from exporting in Leek?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Leek sends about 4,851 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £582. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Leek get in December?
December is the low point: about 170 kWh from a 12-panel system in Leek, on PVGIS data, rising to 750 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 880 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Leek compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Leek.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Leek |
|---|---|---|
| Leek | 910 | this town |
| Biddulph | 910 | level |
| Cheadle (Staffordshire Moorlands) | 953 | +43 kWh |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 925 | +15 kWh |
| Congleton | 907 | −3 kWh |
| Kidsgrove | 917 | +7 kWh |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 932 | +22 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.
Also for Leek: Solar panels in Leek from OVO Solar & Battery
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