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Solar panels in Selby, priced before anyone visits.
A 12-panel roof in Selby makes about 6,140 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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Sunlight in Selby, in numbers
From 32.6 kWh per kWp in December to 122.6 in May: a roof in Selby makes 3.8 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 966 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 33.3 |
| February | 50.7 |
| March | 84.4 |
| April | 109 |
| May | 123 |
| June | 114 |
| July | 120 |
| August | 109 |
| September | 88.8 |
| October | 61.1 |
| November | 41.8 |
| December | 32.6 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 966 kWh per kWp in Selby against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Selby 4% above it.
How Selby compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Selby. It is one of 122 Yorkshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 34th of 122 for solar yield, a town of 20,033 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 966 kWh per kWp a year, 2.65 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £872 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £625 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 Selby's own yield.
Planning applications here go through North Yorkshire; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Selby 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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Generation is modelled from PVGIS satellite data for Selby's own coordinates (53.78008, -1.06806), using the same 26.32p/kWh import value and £1,000 per kWp installed pricing as every Clearline estimate; the methodology is on our help page.
The network operator for Selby
Northern Powergrid owns and runs the local electricity network in Selby, as part of its Yorkshire 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: Northern Powergrid is notified within 28 days of commissioning and nothing has to be approved first.
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 Selby
A heat pump in Selby
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Selby make about 210 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Selby comes down to the tariff and the flow temperature rather 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 Selby
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Selby make about 780 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 Selby
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Selby as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Selby
How much electricity do solar panels make in Selby?
About 6,140 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Selby: 966 kWh per kWp, or 2.65 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 780 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Selby?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Selby, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,140 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Selby, and what does it need from me?
Northern Powergrid covers Selby. 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 Selby?
Around £625 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,207 kWh a 12-panel system in Selby 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 Selby get in December?
December is the low point: about 210 kWh from a 12-panel system in Selby, on PVGIS data, rising to 780 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 1,010 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Selby compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Selby.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Selby |
|---|---|---|
| Selby | 966 | this town |
| Sherburn in Elmet | 969 | +3 kWh |
| Knottingley | 973 | +7 kWh |
| Goole | 982 | +16 kWh |
| Pontefract | 969 | +3 kWh |
| Castleford | 962 | −4 kWh |
| Thorne | 969 | +3 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.
Also for Selby: Solar panels in Selby from OVO Solar & Battery
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Guides worth reading before your call
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 →How much a battery saves by charging on cheap night rates
What charging at 8.5p and using at 26.32p is actually worth over a year.
Read the guide →How time of use charging windows actually work
How a cheap overnight window is metered and billed, and what a battery does inside it.
Read the guide →Are heat pumps worth it? The real 2026 numbers
Electricity costs 3.3x gas per kWh. A heat pump is about 3x as efficient. The numbers nearly cancel out.
Read the guide →EV tariffs compared: the cheapest overnight windows
Overnight rates of 6.99p to 9p against a 26.32p capped average, compared.
Read the guide →Your MCS certificate: what it shows, when it arrives, and how a Smart Export Guarantee supplier uses it
The document your export payments hang on. Who issues it, what it shows, and how to get a copy.
Read the guide →Get my free quote
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