Lancashire
Solar panels in Old Trafford, sized to your roof.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 5,770 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed around your roof on a free 30-minute video call.
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Old Trafford's solar year
From 28.3 kWh per kWp in January to 117.5 in May: a roof in Old Trafford makes 4.2 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 908 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
Show the monthly figures
| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 28.3 |
| February | 47.8 |
| March | 80.4 |
| April | 105 |
| May | 118 |
| June | 111 |
| July | 111 |
| August | 98.9 |
| September | 83.5 |
| October | 57.2 |
| November | 39.1 |
| December | 28.3 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
Our GB average is 925 kWh per kWp a year, the mean of the 85 county PVGIS estimates we publish; at 908, Old Trafford is 2% below it.
How Old Trafford compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Old Trafford. It is one of 109 Lancashire towns we track, and it ranks joint 58th of 109 for solar yield, a town of 23,497 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 908 kWh per kWp a year, 2.49 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £828 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £581 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Old Trafford'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.
Trafford is the planning authority covering Old Trafford, 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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Modelled for Old Trafford at 53.46486, -2.30894 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
Who runs the grid in Old Trafford
Electricity North West owns and runs the local electricity network in Old Trafford, as part of its North West 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: Electricity North West 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 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 Old Trafford
A heat pump in Old Trafford
A heat pump does most of its work from November to February. Over those four months, 12 panels in Old Trafford make about 910 kWh, against 2,790 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 Old Trafford
A 12-panel roof in Old Trafford makes about 750 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.
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.
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 Old Trafford
Faults, servicing and ageing inverters follow the same economics in Old Trafford as anywhere else, and the guides below price them plainly.
Old Trafford solar questions
What does a solar panel system produce in Old Trafford?
Each kWp of panels in Old Trafford makes 908 kWh a year on PVGIS figures, so a typical 12-panel system produces around 5,770 kWh, from about 180 kWh in January up to 750 kWh in May.
What would 12 solar panels cost in Old Trafford?
£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 Old Trafford differs is output: about 5,770 kWh a year from that system.
Would a system in Old Trafford need approval from the network operator?
Old Trafford is on Electricity North West's network (North West England licence area). Systems up to 3.68kW per phase of inverter output follow G98: Electricity North West 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 Electricity North West as it does every network operator. Our G98 vs G99 guide explains both routes.
How much would export pay on a system in Old Trafford?
It is exported. With typical use and no battery, about 4,838 kWh of the 5,770 kWh a 12-panel system makes in Old Trafford goes to the grid, around £581 a year at 12p. A battery keeps more of it for the evening; the export rates table shows what suppliers pay.
Is solar worth it in Old Trafford in winter?
It works, but the year is lopsided. 69% of a Old Trafford roof's output lands between April and September; the four months from November to February give about 910 kWh on a 12-panel system. Payback is worked out on the whole year, not the winter.
How Old Trafford 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 Old Trafford |
|---|---|---|
| Old Trafford | 908 | this town |
| Stretford | 908 | level |
| Salford | 895 | −13 kWh |
| Eccles | 913 | +5 kWh |
| Urmston | 913 | +5 kWh |
| Sale | 913 | +5 kWh |
| Swinton (Salford) | 901 | −7 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 Old Trafford: Solar panels in Old Trafford from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Old Trafford
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
Why your inverter is smaller than your panel array, and why that is correct
More panel capacity than inverter capacity is a deliberate design choice.
Read the guide →Inside a home battery: capacity, power and losses
Usable capacity, kW output, round trip losses and chemistry, in plain terms.
Read the guide →What an EV charger installation actually involves
Main fuse, DNO notification, load balancing and the paperwork. What really happens.
Read the guide →Do you need to replace your radiators for a heat pump?
Some change, most do not. The room by room arithmetic that decides which.
Read the guide →Choosing a tariff when you have solar, a battery and an EV
Solar, battery and EV want different tariffs. How to work out which one to protect.
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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