Lancashire
Solar panels in Maghull, sized to your roof.
A 12-panel roof in Maghull makes about 6,190 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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Maghull's solar year
PVGIS puts Maghull at 973 kWh per kWp a year, 12% above our Lancashire county estimate. 69% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 31.4 |
| February | 53.8 |
| March | 87.1 |
| April | 115 |
| May | 127 |
| June | 119 |
| July | 119 |
| August | 107 |
| September | 88.2 |
| October | 59 |
| November | 38.9 |
| December | 28.7 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 973 kWh per kWp in Maghull against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Maghull 5% above it.
How Maghull compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Maghull. It is one of 109 Lancashire towns we track, and it ranks joint 13th of 109 for solar yield, a town of 21,327 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 973 kWh per kWp a year, 2.67 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £877 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £630 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Maghull'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.
Sefton is the planning authority covering Maghull, which the House of Commons Library classes 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 Maghull (53.51206, -2.93646), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
Who runs the grid in Maghull
The distribution network operator (DNO) for Maghull is SP Energy Networks, which runs the North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area.
For a typical home the paperwork is light: a system of up to 3.68kW per phase goes through G98, which means SP Energy Networks is notified within 28 days of switch-on rather than asked beforehand.
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 Maghull
A heat pump in Maghull
A heat pump does most of its work from November to February. Over those four months, 12 panels in Maghull make about 970 kWh, against 3,000 kWh from May to August, so winter heating runs mostly on grid electricity and the tariff matters more than the roof.
Grant support in England comes from the Boiler Upgrade Scheme: £7,500 for an air source or ground source heat pump, £2,500 for air-to-air, and an extra £1,500 until March 2027 where the home is heated by oil or LPG off the gas grid (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
Charging an EV in Maghull
A 12-panel roof in Maghull makes about 810 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.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Maghull
Faults, servicing and ageing inverters follow the same economics in Maghull as anywhere else, and the guides below price them plainly.
Solar in Maghull: your questions answered
What does a solar panel system produce in Maghull?
Each kWp of panels in Maghull makes 973 kWh a year on PVGIS figures, so a typical 12-panel system produces around 6,190 kWh, from about 180 kWh in December up to 810 kWh in May.
How much are solar panels in Maghull?
The price does not move by postcode. At £1,000 per kWp installed, 12 panels (6.36 kWp) come to £6,360 in Maghull before a battery. What Maghull changes is the return, about 6,190 kWh a year from that system, and your design call prices your actual roof.
Would a system in Maghull need approval from the network operator?
Maghull is on SP Energy Networks' network (North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area). Systems up to 3.68kW per phase of inverter output follow G98: SP Energy Networks is notified within 28 days of commissioning, with no approval needed first. Anything larger needs a G99 application before installation. 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. Our G98 vs G99 guide explains both routes.
How much can I earn from exporting solar in Maghull?
With typical use and no battery, a 12-panel system in Maghull exports about 5,252 kWh a year. At 12p per kWh that is roughly £630; a supplier paying more, or a battery that keeps more for the evening, changes the figure. See the export rates table.
Is solar worth it in Maghull in winter?
It works, but the year is lopsided. 69% of a Maghull roof's output lands between April and September; the four months from November to February give about 970 kWh on a 12-panel system. Payback is worked out on the whole year, not the winter.
How Maghull 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 Maghull |
|---|---|---|
| Maghull | 973 | this town |
| Kirkby | 958 | −15 kWh |
| Litherland | 972 | −1 kWh |
| Bootle | 972 | −1 kWh |
| Ormskirk | 958 | −15 kWh |
| Crosby | 977 | +4 kWh |
| Formby | 1,017 | +44 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 Maghull: Solar panels in Maghull from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Maghull
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