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Solar panels in Shoreham-by-Sea, designed on a free call.
About 7,280 kWh a year from 12 panels in Shoreham-by-Sea, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Shoreham-by-Sea, in numbers
PVGIS puts Shoreham-by-Sea at 1,145 kWh per kWp a year, level with our Sussex county estimate. 69% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in July.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 41.2 |
| February | 58.1 |
| March | 98 |
| April | 131 |
| May | 138 |
| June | 144 |
| July | 146 |
| August | 127 |
| September | 106 |
| October | 72.1 |
| November | 46.4 |
| December | 38.8 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 1,145 kWh per kWp in Shoreham-by-Sea against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Shoreham-by-Sea 24% above it.
How Shoreham-by-Sea compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Shoreham-by-Sea. It is one of 33 Sussex towns we track, and it ranks 13th of 33 for solar yield, a town of 23,688 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,145 kWh per kWp a year, 3.14 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £1,008 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £761 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Shoreham-by-Sea'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 Adur; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Shoreham-by-Sea 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 Shoreham-by-Sea at 50.83636, -0.26526 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
UK Power Networks and your Shoreham-by-Sea connection
Shoreham-by-Sea sits in UK Power Networks' South East England licence area, so UK Power Networks 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 UK Power Networks 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 UK Power Networks 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 Shoreham-by-Sea
A heat pump in Shoreham-by-Sea
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Shoreham-by-Sea, a 12-panel system makes about 250 kWh in December and 260 kWh in January, a fraction of its 930 kWh in July, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
In England, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays £7,500 towards an air source or ground source heat pump and £2,500 towards an air-to-air one, with £1,500 more until March 2027 for homes heated by oil or LPG with no mains gas (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
Charging an EV in Shoreham-by-Sea
Shoreham-by-Sea's July output, about 930 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.
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 Shoreham-by-Sea
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Shoreham-by-Sea as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in Shoreham-by-Sea
How much electricity do solar panels make in Shoreham-by-Sea?
About 7,280 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Shoreham-by-Sea: 1,145 kWh per kWp, or 3.14 peak sun hours a day on average. July is the strongest month, at about 930 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Shoreham-by-Sea?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Shoreham-by-Sea, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 7,280 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Shoreham-by-Sea, and what does it need from me?
UK Power Networks covers Shoreham-by-Sea. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to UK Power Networks 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 UK Power Networks as it does every network operator.
What could I earn from exporting in Shoreham-by-Sea?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Shoreham-by-Sea sends about 6,346 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £761. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Shoreham-by-Sea get in December?
December is the low point: about 250 kWh from a 12-panel system in Shoreham-by-Sea, on PVGIS data, rising to 930 kWh in July. From November to February the same system makes about 1,170 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Shoreham-by-Sea compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Shoreham-by-Sea compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Shoreham-by-Sea |
|---|---|---|
| Shoreham-by-Sea | 1,145 | this town |
| Southwick | 1,146 | +1 kWh |
| Lancing and Sompting | 1,144 | −1 kWh |
| Brighton and Hove | 1,159 | +14 kWh |
| Worthing | 1,143 | −2 kWh |
| Hassocks and Hurstpierpoint | 1,134 | −11 kWh |
| Storrington | 1,126 | −19 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 Shoreham-by-Sea: Solar panels in Shoreham-by-Sea from OVO Solar & Battery
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