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Solar panels in Prudhoe, priced before anyone visits.
About 5,880 kWh a year from 12 panels in Prudhoe, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Prudhoe, in numbers
From 27.1 kWh per kWp in December to 120.3 in May: a roof in Prudhoe makes 4.4 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 924 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 29.9 |
| February | 49.9 |
| March | 82.3 |
| April | 106 |
| May | 120 |
| June | 108 |
| July | 115 |
| August | 103 |
| September | 85.8 |
| October | 56.7 |
| November | 38.7 |
| December | 27.1 |
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: Prudhoe makes 924 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Prudhoe is level with it.
How Prudhoe compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Prudhoe. It is one of 18 Northumberland towns we track, and it ranks 17th of 18 for solar yield, a town of 9,863 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 924 kWh per kWp a year, 2.53 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £840 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £593 from export at 12p.
Every figure here assumes a clear, south-facing roof at 35 degrees. Yours will differ, which is what the free design call is for; until then, the calculator below tests panels, batteries and export rates on Prudhoe's own yield.
Planning applications here go through Northumberland; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Prudhoe 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 Prudhoe at 54.96211, -1.85094 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
Northern Powergrid and your Prudhoe connection
On NESO's licence-area map, Prudhoe is in North East England, which Northern Powergrid operates. That makes Northern Powergrid 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 Northern Powergrid 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: Northern Powergrid publishes a guaranteed standard of 45 working days to quote for a low voltage generation connection.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); Northern Powergrid, generation connections page, checked 25 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Beyond the panels: heating and car charging in Prudhoe
A heat pump in Prudhoe
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Prudhoe make about 170 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Prudhoe comes down to the tariff and the flow temperature rather 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 Prudhoe
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Prudhoe make about 770 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.
If you rent, or own a flat, and have private off-street parking, the government chargepoint grant covers 75% of the cost, capped at £500 a socket, until 31 March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026). The calculator above prices a 7.4kW smart charger from £1,100 installed.
Installed prices, the same in every town
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Prudhoe
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Prudhoe as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Prudhoe
How much electricity do solar panels make in Prudhoe?
About 5,880 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Prudhoe: 924 kWh per kWp, or 2.53 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 770 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Prudhoe?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Prudhoe, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 5,880 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Prudhoe, and what does it need from me?
Northern Powergrid covers Prudhoe. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to Northern Powergrid within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. Northern Powergrid publishes a guaranteed standard of 45 working days to quote for a low voltage generation connection.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Prudhoe?
Around £593 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 4,940 kWh a 12-panel system in Prudhoe 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 Prudhoe get in December?
December is the low point: about 170 kWh from a 12-panel system in Prudhoe, on PVGIS data, rising to 770 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 930 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Prudhoe 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 Prudhoe |
|---|---|---|
| Prudhoe | 924 | this town |
| Crawcrook and Greenside | 927 | +3 kWh |
| Ryton | 930 | +6 kWh |
| Blaydon | 934 | +10 kWh |
| Ponteland | 937 | +13 kWh |
| Whickham | 950 | +26 kWh |
| Consett | 928 | +4 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 Prudhoe: Solar panels in Prudhoe from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Prudhoe
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 →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 →How much does a heat pump cost? The 2026 numbers, before and after the grant
UK median installed cost around £12,908, before the up to £7,500 grant comes off.
Read the guide →Why the best export rates always carry conditions
The top export rates are acquisition offers. Here is how to price the condition.
Read the guide →G98 or G99: which one applies, what the application involves, and how long it takes
The G98 line sits at 3.68kW per phase. Above it, your network operator has to say yes first.
Read the guide →Get my free quote
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