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Independent guidance on solar and battery storage for St Ives homes in Huntingdonshire: a free remote design call first, then an MCS-certified installation team for your area if you decide to go ahead. PVGIS puts a roof in St Ives at 1,038 kWh per kWp a year, level with our Huntingdonshire county estimate.
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What a roof in St Ives can generate
Real satellite data for St Ives, real installed pricing, and the same honest model we run for every place we cover.
How St Ives compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for St Ives. It is one of 5 Huntingdonshire towns we track, and it ranks 3rd of 5 for solar yield, a town of 17,355 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,038 kWh per kWp a year, 2.84 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £927 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £680 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, defaulted to St Ives's own yield, and at St Ives's 1,038 kWh per kWp it 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.
Planning applications here go through Huntingdonshire; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes St Ives 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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A 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in St Ives generates around 6,602 kWh a year, worth around £926 in year one on the 12p export scenario.
Generation is modelled from PVGIS satellite data for St Ives's own coordinates (52.33306, -0.07339), using the same 26.32p/kWh import value and £1,000 per kWp installed pricing as every Clearline estimate, with the full methodology, sourcing and assumptions set out on our help page.
Solar panel servicing and repair in St Ives
The same sourced benchmarks apply in St Ives as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Common questions about solar in St Ives
What could a roof in St Ives generate?
PVGIS puts a roof in St Ives at 1,038 kWh per kWp a year, 2.84 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons.
What does a typical solar system cost in St Ives?
A typical 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in St Ives costs around £6,360 installed, at £1,000 per kWp before any battery.
Would a system in St Ives need a G99 application?
Most home solar and battery systems qualify for the simpler G98 notification, made to the network operator (DNO) after installation rather than before. A minority, usually larger systems, need the fuller G99 process instead. Your design call checks which applies in St Ives before anything is booked; our G98 vs G99 guide explains the difference in full.
What could I earn from exporting in St Ives?
On the 12p export scenario, that 12 panel system sends about 5,665 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £680. The tariff guide compares the export rates that could apply to your setup.
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Reading for St Ives homeowners
Independent, sourced and dated. The same ground we cover on your free call.
Microinverters, optimisers or a plain string inverter: who needs what
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Read the guide →Three phase and EV charging: what actually changes
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Read the guide →The Boiler Upgrade Scheme, explained
A fixed amount, claimed by your installation team, with a real deadline on the £9,000 version.
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 →What MCS certification actually is, and why your export payments depend on it
The badge that decides whether your solar earns export payments. It cannot be added later.
Read the guide →How St Ives compares with its neighbours
Same satellite dataset, same assumptions, so the differences are real geography rather than modelling noise.
| Town | kWh per kWp | Peak sun hours | vs St Ives |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Ives | 1,038 | 2.84 | — |
| Godmanchester | 1,039 | 2.85 | +1 kWh |
| Huntingdon | 1,039 | 2.85 | +1 kWh |
| Cambourne | 1,036 | 2.84 | -2 kWh |
| Histon and Impington | 1,037 | 2.84 | -1 kWh |
| Chatteris | 1,033 | 2.83 | -5 kWh |
| St Neots | 1,026 | 2.81 | -12 kWh |
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 St Ives: Solar panels in St Ives from OVO Solar & Battery