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Solar panels in Rawtenstall, designed on a free call.
A 12-panel roof in Rawtenstall makes about 5,490 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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Sunlight in Rawtenstall, in numbers
From 22.5 kWh per kWp in December to 114.5 in May: a roof in Rawtenstall makes 5.1 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 863 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
Show the monthly figures
| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 24 |
| February | 42.5 |
| March | 75.8 |
| April | 104 |
| May | 115 |
| June | 108 |
| July | 110 |
| August | 95.4 |
| September | 78.7 |
| October | 52 |
| November | 35.3 |
| December | 22.5 |
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 863, Rawtenstall is 7% below it.
How Rawtenstall compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Rawtenstall. It is one of 109 Lancashire towns we track, and it ranks joint 98th of 109 for solar yield, a town of 24,372 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 863 kWh per kWp a year, 2.36 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £793 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £546 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Rawtenstall'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.
Planning applications here go through Rossendale; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Rawtenstall 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 Rawtenstall (53.70526, -2.27616), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
Electricity North West and your Rawtenstall connection
Rawtenstall 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.
Below 3.68kW per phase of inverter and battery output, the G98 route applies: the installation is notified to Electricity North West within 28 days of commissioning, with no prior approval.
Above that, G99 means applying before the work is booked. 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 Rawtenstall
A heat pump in Rawtenstall
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Rawtenstall make about 140 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Rawtenstall 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 Rawtenstall
Rawtenstall's May output, about 730 kWh from 12 panels, is several times the 70 kWh or so a typical home uses in daylight that month on our calculator's settings. Daytime charging turns that surplus into miles.
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.
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 Rawtenstall
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Rawtenstall as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Rawtenstall
How much electricity do solar panels make in Rawtenstall?
About 5,490 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Rawtenstall: 863 kWh per kWp, or 2.36 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 730 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Rawtenstall?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Rawtenstall, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 5,490 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Rawtenstall, and what does it need from me?
Electricity North West covers Rawtenstall. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to Electricity North West within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. 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.
What could I earn from exporting in Rawtenstall?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Rawtenstall sends about 4,552 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £546. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Rawtenstall get in December?
December is the low point: about 140 kWh from a 12-panel system in Rawtenstall, on PVGIS data, rising to 730 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 790 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Rawtenstall compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Rawtenstall.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Rawtenstall |
|---|---|---|
| Rawtenstall | 863 | this town |
| Haslingden | 881 | +18 kWh |
| Bacup | 869 | +6 kWh |
| Accrington | 875 | +12 kWh |
| Ramsbottom | 895 | +32 kWh |
| Oswaldtwistle | 876 | +13 kWh |
| Burnley | 863 | level |
PVGIS v5.2 for each town centroid, identical assumptions throughout. A few kWh either way is weather-year noise; a spread beyond about 30 kWh per kWp is real geography.
Also for Rawtenstall: Solar panels in Rawtenstall from OVO Solar & Battery
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