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Solar panels in Oadby, priced before anyone visits.
About 6,390 kWh a year from 12 panels in Oadby, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Oadby roof makes, month by month
From 34.6 kWh per kWp in December to 124 in July: a roof in Oadby makes 3.6 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 1,005 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 36.7 |
| February | 51.2 |
| March | 87.4 |
| April | 113 |
| May | 123 |
| June | 119 |
| July | 124 |
| August | 111 |
| September | 94.4 |
| October | 65.2 |
| November | 45.1 |
| December | 34.6 |
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: Oadby makes 1,005 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Oadby is 9% above it.
How Oadby compares
Among the places we publish figures for, Oadby is one of 26 Leicestershire towns we track, and it ranks 3rd of 26 for solar yield. It is a medium town in the House of Commons Library classification, with 25,474 residents, and its roofs see 2.75 peak sun hours a day across the year. That drives the standard 12 panel model to 6,392 kWh of generation, of which around 5,455 kWh is exported at 12p for £655 a year, with £247 saved on electricity you would otherwise buy at 26.32p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Oadby'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 Oadby sits with Oadby and Wigston, and its official House of Commons Library settlement class is medium 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 Oadby at 52.59966, -1.07579 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
The network operator for Oadby
On NESO's licence-area map, Oadby is in East Midlands, which National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) operates. That makes NGED 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 NGED within 28 days of switch-on. Panel count does not decide it; the inverter and any battery do.
Larger systems go through G99 instead, applied for before installation. On timing: 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 Oadby
A heat pump in Oadby
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Oadby, a 12-panel system makes about 220 kWh in December and 230 kWh in January, a fraction of its 790 kWh in July, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
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 Oadby
Summer is where a car earns its place. In July, 12 panels in Oadby make about 790 kWh, against roughly 70 kWh a typical home uses in daylight that month on our calculator's typical-use settings, so there is surplus a smart charger can put into the car instead of exporting it.
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 Oadby
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Oadby as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Oadby
How much electricity do solar panels make in Oadby?
About 6,390 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Oadby: 1,005 kWh per kWp, or 2.75 peak sun hours a day on average. July is the strongest month, at about 790 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Oadby?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Oadby, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,390 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Oadby, and what does it need from me?
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) covers Oadby. 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 happens to the solar I do not use in Oadby?
Around £655 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,455 kWh a 12-panel system in Oadby exports with typical use. Rates vary by supplier and some need their own tariff; the export rates table is dated and sourced.
How much solar does Oadby get in December?
December is the low point: about 220 kWh from a 12-panel system in Oadby, on PVGIS data, rising to 790 kWh in July. From November to February the same system makes about 1,070 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Oadby 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 Oadby |
|---|---|---|
| Oadby | 1,005 | this town |
| Wigston | 997 | −8 kWh |
| Leicester | 994 | −11 kWh |
| Countesthorpe | 996 | −9 kWh |
| Blaby and Whetstone | 993 | −12 kWh |
| Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt | 1,014 | +9 kWh |
| Thurmaston | 985 | −20 kWh |
Same PVGIS v5.2 query for every town. Small differences are within year-to-year weather; more than about 30 kWh per kWp apart is geography.
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Further reading for Oadby
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
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