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Solar panels in Liverpool, sized to your roof.
About 6,140 kWh a year from 12 panels in Liverpool, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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What a roof in Liverpool can generate
Liverpool's best month is May, at 126 kWh per kWp; December manages 28.9. Over the year that comes to 965 kWh per kWp, 11% above our Lancashire county estimate.
Generation per kWp, month by month
Show the monthly figures
| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 31.8 |
| February | 52.6 |
| March | 86.6 |
| April | 113 |
| May | 126 |
| June | 118 |
| July | 119 |
| August | 106 |
| September | 86.5 |
| October | 58.1 |
| November | 38.5 |
| December | 28.9 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
Against Great Britain as a whole: Liverpool makes 965 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Liverpool is 4% above it.
How Liverpool compares
Liverpool is one of 109 Lancashire towns we track, and it ranks 18th of 109 for solar yield. The House of Commons Library settlement classification puts it in the core city class, with a population of 530,293, which makes it one of the largest places we publish figures for. Scale changes nothing about the physics: PVGIS gives a roof here 965 kWh per kWp a year, 2.64 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 £624.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Liverpool's own yield, and 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 in Liverpool go to its own council, and the House of Commons Library classes it 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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The figures use PVGIS for the centre of Liverpool (53.4022, -2.91464), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
Connecting solar to the Liverpool network
On NESO's licence-area map, Liverpool is in North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire, which SP Energy Networks operates. That makes SP Energy Networks the network operator for any system fitted here.
Most home systems stay within 3.68kW per phase of inverter output, which puts them on G98, a notification to SP Energy Networks within 28 days of switch-on. Panel count does not decide it; the inverter and any battery do.
Anything bigger is a G99 case and is applied for 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 SP Energy 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.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Liverpool
A heat pump in Liverpool
Solar and a heat pump pull in opposite directions through the year: Liverpool's roofs make 970 kWh from November to February on a 12-panel system, and 2,980 kWh from May to August. The heating season leans on the grid, so off-peak rates do the heavy lifting.
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 Liverpool
A 12-panel roof in Liverpool makes about 800 kWh in May. A typical home uses around 70 kWh of that in daylight (the calculator's typical-use settings), which leaves most of the month's output for an EV or for export.
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.
What else is true of Liverpool
Liverpool's housing runs from the Georgian Quarter's dense terraces, dating from around 1800, to the lower-density suburban estates built in the 1920s and 1930s when the city rehoused roughly 140,000 people, about 15% of its population, out of the inner-city terraces. That combination of dense central terraces and semi-detached suburban estates means roof size and orientation vary considerably depending on which part of the city a home sits in.
Liverpool sits in SP Energy Networks territory, specifically its SP Manweb licence. SP Energy Networks does not publish its own day count for a standard low voltage generation quotation, so the 45 working day standard that applies across the industry is the figure to plan against, with most single home systems using the quicker 28-day G98 route instead. Liverpool City Council is the planning authority, and its 36 conservation areas protect around 19,000 properties, including much of the Georgian Quarter.
The Liverpool City Region has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2035, agreed by the combined authority that covers Liverpool and its neighbouring boroughs. Its Toasty Homes programme already funds free and part-funded upgrades, including solar panels, insulation and low-carbon heating, for eligible homes across the city region, sitting alongside whatever a household chooses to pay for and fit on its own account.
Planning authority: Liverpool City Council
Sources: liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk · liverpool.gov.uk
Solar panel servicing and repair in Liverpool
Guidance is nationwide, so the benchmarks hold in Liverpool: repair costs, service scope, and when the inverter is the real fault.
Solar in Liverpool: your questions answered
What could a roof in Liverpool generate?
PVGIS puts a roof in Liverpool at 965 kWh per kWp a year, 2.64 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons. A 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system makes about 6,140 kWh a year, most of it between April and September.
What would 12 solar panels cost in Liverpool?
£6,360 for 12 panels (6.36 kWp), the same as in every other place we cover, because solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed rather than by area. A battery adds its own installed price on top. Where Liverpool differs is output: about 6,140 kWh a year from that system.
Do I need permission from the DNO for solar in Liverpool?
Usually not in advance. SP Energy Networks, the network operator for Liverpool, only needs a G98 notification within 28 days of commissioning for systems up to 3.68kW per phase. Bigger inverter or battery outputs need G99 approval 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 SP Energy Networks as it does every network operator. "See our DNO explainer.
How much would export pay on a system in Liverpool?
It is exported. With typical use and no battery, about 5,201 kWh of the 6,140 kWh a 12-panel system makes in Liverpool goes to the grid, around £624 a year at 12p. A battery keeps more of it for the evening; the export rates table shows what suppliers pay.
Do solar panels work in winter in Liverpool?
Yes, at a lower level. PVGIS gives Liverpool 28.9 kWh per kWp in December and 31.8 in January, so a 12-panel system makes about 180 kWh and 200 kWh in those months, against 800 kWh in May. Winter output mostly covers daytime use rather than exporting.
How Liverpool 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 Liverpool |
|---|---|---|
| Liverpool | 965 | this town |
| Huyton with Roby | 951 | −14 kWh |
| Bootle | 972 | +7 kWh |
| Bebington | 959 | −6 kWh |
| Prescot | 944 | −21 kWh |
| Kirkby | 958 | −7 kWh |
| Birkenhead | 974 | +9 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.
Also for Liverpool: Solar panels in Liverpool from OVO Solar & Battery
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