Lancashire
Solar panels in Longridge, designed on a free call.
A 12-panel roof in Longridge makes about 5,670 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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How much a Longridge roof makes, month by month
Longridge's best month is May, at 118.1 kWh per kWp; December manages 25.4. Over the year that comes to 891 kWh per kWp, 3% above our Lancashire county estimate.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 26.1 |
| February | 46.8 |
| March | 77.8 |
| April | 105 |
| May | 118 |
| June | 111 |
| July | 111 |
| August | 96.7 |
| September | 80.5 |
| October | 56 |
| November | 36.4 |
| December | 25.4 |
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: Longridge makes 891 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Longridge is 4% below it.
How Longridge compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Longridge. It is one of 109 Lancashire towns we track, and it ranks 74th of 109 for solar yield, a town of 9,819 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 891 kWh per kWp a year, 2.44 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £815 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £568 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Longridge'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.
Any planning application in Longridge sits with Ribble Valley, 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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Modelled for Longridge at 53.82942, -2.6044 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
Electricity North West and your Longridge connection
Longridge is served by Electricity North West: the town's centre falls inside its North West England licence area on NESO's boundary map.
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: Electricity North West is notified within 28 days of commissioning and nothing has to be approved first.
Above that, G99 means applying before the work is booked. 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 Electricity North West 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 Longridge
A heat pump in Longridge
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Longridge, a 12-panel system makes about 160 kWh in December and 170 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 Longridge
Longridge'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.
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 Longridge
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Longridge as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Longridge solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Longridge?
About 5,670 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Longridge: 891 kWh per kWp, or 2.44 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 750 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Longridge?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Longridge, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 5,670 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Longridge, and what does it need from me?
Electricity North West covers Longridge. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to Electricity North West within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. 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 Electricity North West as it does every network operator.
What could I earn from exporting in Longridge?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Longridge sends about 4,730 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £568. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Longridge get in December?
December is the low point: about 160 kWh from a 12-panel system in Longridge, on PVGIS data, rising to 750 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 860 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Longridge compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Longridge compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Longridge |
|---|---|---|
| Longridge | 891 | this town |
| Fulwood | 909 | +18 kWh |
| Preston | 889 | −2 kWh |
| Cottam | 931 | +40 kWh |
| Bamber Bridge | 890 | −1 kWh |
| Blackburn | 875 | −16 kWh |
| Penwortham | 909 | +18 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 Longridge: Solar panels in Longridge from OVO Solar & Battery
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