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Solar panels in Penrith, sized to your roof.
A 12-panel roof in Penrith makes about 5,700 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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Penrith's solar year
From 23.1 kWh per kWp in December to 122.8 in May: a roof in Penrith makes 5.3 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 897 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
Show the monthly figures
| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 25.9 |
| February | 46.1 |
| March | 79.5 |
| April | 108 |
| May | 123 |
| June | 111 |
| July | 114 |
| August | 98.6 |
| September | 81.5 |
| October | 52 |
| November | 34.7 |
| December | 23.1 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 897 kWh per kWp in Penrith against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Penrith 3% below it.
How Penrith compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Penrith. It is one of 6 Cumberland towns we track, and it ranks 5th of 6 for solar yield, a town of 17,623 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 897 kWh per kWp a year, 2.46 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £819 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £572 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Penrith'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.
Westmorland and Furness is the planning authority covering Penrith, 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 Penrith (54.6642, -2.75079), 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 Penrith
Penrith sits in Electricity North West's North West England licence area, so Electricity North West is the network operator (DNO) any solar panels or battery here are registered with.
G98 is the simple route. If the inverter, plus any battery, stays at or under 3.68kW per phase, Electricity North West only has to be told within 28 days after the system is commissioned.
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.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Penrith
A heat pump in Penrith
A heat pump does most of its work from November to February. Over those four months, 12 panels in Penrith make about 830 kWh, against 2,840 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 Penrith
A 12-panel roof in Penrith makes about 780 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.
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 Penrith
Faults, servicing and ageing inverters follow the same economics in Penrith as anywhere else, and the guides below price them plainly.
Solar in Penrith: your questions answered
What does a solar panel system produce in Penrith?
Each kWp of panels in Penrith makes 897 kWh a year on PVGIS figures, so a typical 12-panel system produces around 5,700 kWh, from about 150 kWh in December up to 780 kWh in May.
How much are solar panels in Penrith?
The price does not move by postcode. At £1,000 per kWp installed, 12 panels (6.36 kWp) come to £6,360 in Penrith before a battery. What Penrith changes is the return, about 5,700 kWh a year from that system, and your design call prices your actual roof.
Would a system in Penrith need approval from the network operator?
Penrith 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 can I earn from exporting solar in Penrith?
With typical use and no battery, a 12-panel system in Penrith exports about 4,768 kWh a year. At 12p per kWh that is roughly £572; 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 Penrith in winter?
It works, but the year is lopsided. 71% of a Penrith roof's output lands between April and September; the four months from November to February give about 830 kWh on a 12-panel system. Payback is worked out on the whole year, not the winter.
How Penrith 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 Penrith |
|---|---|---|
| Penrith | 897 | this town |
| Carlisle | 915 | +18 kWh |
| Kendal | 896 | −1 kWh |
| Cockermouth | 868 | −29 kWh |
| Maryport | 956 | +59 kWh |
| Annan | 929 | +32 kWh |
| Workington | 950 | +53 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 Penrith: Solar panels in Penrith from OVO Solar & Battery
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