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Solar panels in Newmarket, sized to your roof.
A 12-panel roof in Newmarket makes about 6,560 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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Newmarket's solar year
From 35.9 kWh per kWp in December to 124.9 in July: a roof in Newmarket makes 3.5 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 1,032 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
Show the monthly figures
| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 37.3 |
| February | 53.1 |
| March | 88.5 |
| April | 117 |
| May | 125 |
| June | 123 |
| July | 125 |
| August | 112 |
| September | 98.2 |
| October | 68.9 |
| November | 48.1 |
| December | 35.9 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 1,032 kWh per kWp in Newmarket against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Newmarket 12% above it.
How Newmarket compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Newmarket. It is one of 16 Suffolk towns we track, and it ranks 15th of 16 for solar yield, a town of 19,855 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,032 kWh per kWp a year, 2.83 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £922 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £675 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Newmarket'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.
West Suffolk is the planning authority covering Newmarket, 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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Generation is modelled from PVGIS satellite data for Newmarket's own coordinates (52.2492, 0.40273), using the same 26.32p/kWh import value and £1,000 per kWp installed pricing as every Clearline estimate; the methodology is on our help page.
Who runs the grid in Newmarket
UK Power Networks owns and runs the local electricity network in Newmarket, as part of its East England licence area.
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: UK Power Networks is notified within 28 days of commissioning and nothing has to be approved first.
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 UK Power 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.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Newmarket
A heat pump in Newmarket
A heat pump does most of its work from November to February. Over those four months, 12 panels in Newmarket make about 1,110 kWh, against 3,080 kWh from May to August, so winter heating runs mostly on grid electricity and the tariff matters more than the roof.
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 Newmarket
A 12-panel roof in Newmarket makes about 790 kWh in July. 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.
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.
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 Newmarket
Faults, servicing and ageing inverters follow the same economics in Newmarket as anywhere else, and the guides below price them plainly.
Common questions about solar in Newmarket
What does a solar panel system produce in Newmarket?
Each kWp of panels in Newmarket makes 1,032 kWh a year on PVGIS figures, so a typical 12-panel system produces around 6,560 kWh, from about 230 kWh in December up to 790 kWh in July.
How much are solar panels in Newmarket?
The price does not move by postcode. At £1,000 per kWp installed, 12 panels (6.36 kWp) come to £6,360 in Newmarket before a battery. What Newmarket changes is the return, about 6,560 kWh a year from that system, and your design call prices your actual roof.
Would a system in Newmarket need approval from the network operator?
Newmarket is on UK Power Networks' network (East England licence area). Systems up to 3.68kW per phase of inverter output follow G98: UK Power 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 UK Power Networks as it does every network operator. Our G98 vs G99 guide explains both routes.
How much can I earn from exporting solar in Newmarket?
With typical use and no battery, a 12-panel system in Newmarket exports about 5,627 kWh a year. At 12p per kWh that is roughly £675; 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 Newmarket in winter?
It works, but the year is lopsided. 68% of a Newmarket roof's output lands between April and September; the four months from November to February give about 1,110 kWh on a 12-panel system. Payback is worked out on the whole year, not the winter.
How Newmarket compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Newmarket compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Newmarket |
|---|---|---|
| Newmarket | 1,032 | this town |
| Soham | 1,037 | +5 kWh |
| Mildenhall | 1,033 | +1 kWh |
| Haverhill | 1,043 | +11 kWh |
| Cambridge | 1,037 | +5 kWh |
| Ely | 1,029 | −3 kWh |
| Histon and Impington | 1,037 | +5 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.
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Reading for Newmarket homeowners
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
What is a DNO, and why does a company you have never heard of get a say in your solar?
The company that owns your street's cables decides what solar you can connect.
Read the guide →Adding a battery to solar panels you already own
Retrofitting a battery to working solar is straightforward. The paperwork is where people trip up.
Read the guide →Smart charge point regulations, explained
Why your charger arrives pre-set to charge overnight, and why it waits before it starts.
Read the guide →Sizing a heat pump: what a proper survey covers
Sized by calculation, not by rule of thumb. What the survey covers, and what guessing costs.
Read the guide →Which tariffs are actually built for battery charging
A battery buys cheap and uses dear. The tariff decides how much that is worth.
Read the guide →NAPIT, NICEIC and competent person schemes: who tells building control about your solar
Solar work is notifiable. A competent person scheme means your installation team notifies, not you.
Read the guide →Get my free quote
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