Huntingdonshire
Solar panels in St Ives, designed on a free call.
About 6,600 kWh a year from 12 panels in St Ives, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in St Ives, in numbers
St Ives' best month is July, at 124.6 kWh per kWp; December manages 38.4. Over the year that comes to 1,038 kWh per kWp, level with our Huntingdonshire county estimate.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 39.8 |
| February | 56 |
| March | 89.9 |
| April | 115 |
| May | 124 |
| June | 123 |
| July | 125 |
| August | 112 |
| September | 97.7 |
| October | 69 |
| November | 49.3 |
| December | 38.4 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 1,038 kWh per kWp in St Ives against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts St Ives 12% above it.
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, opened on St Ives' own yield, and 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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Modelled for St Ives at 52.33306, -0.07339 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 St Ives connection
St Ives is served by UK Power Networks: the town's centre falls inside its East England licence area on NESO's boundary map.
Most home systems stay within 3.68kW per phase of inverter output, which puts them on G98, a notification to UK Power Networks within 28 days of switch-on. Panel count does not decide it; the inverter and any battery do.
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.
Heat pumps and EV charging in St Ives
A heat pump in St Ives
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In St Ives, a 12-panel system makes about 240 kWh in December and 250 kWh in January, a fraction of its 790 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 St Ives
St Ives' July output, about 790 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.
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 St Ives
The same sourced benchmarks apply in St Ives as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
St Ives solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in St Ives?
About 6,600 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for St Ives: 1,038 kWh per kWp, or 2.84 peak sun hours a day on average. July is the strongest month, at about 790 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in St Ives?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in St Ives, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 6,600 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers St Ives, and what does it need from me?
UK Power Networks covers St Ives. 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 St Ives?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in St Ives sends about 5,665 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £680. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does St Ives get in December?
December is the low point: about 240 kWh from a 12-panel system in St Ives, on PVGIS data, rising to 790 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 St Ives compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest St Ives compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs St Ives |
|---|---|---|
| St Ives | 1,038 | this town |
| Godmanchester | 1,039 | +1 kWh |
| Huntingdon | 1,039 | +1 kWh |
| Cambourne | 1,036 | −2 kWh |
| Histon and Impington | 1,037 | −1 kWh |
| Chatteris | 1,033 | −5 kWh |
| St Neots | 1,026 | −12 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 St Ives: Solar panels in St Ives from OVO Solar & Battery
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Reading for St Ives homeowners
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
East, west or south facing: what your roof direction really costs you
An east west split gives up about a fifth of the annual total, and can still be worth more than south.
Read the guide →Whole home backup or partial backup? The runtime arithmetic
Whole home backup sounds obvious until you do the runtime maths. Here is how to choose the right tier.
Read the guide →Three phase and EV charging: what actually changes
Three phase buys 22kW charging. Most cars cannot use it, and load balancing usually solves the real problem.
Read the guide →The Boiler Upgrade Scheme, explained
A fixed amount, claimed on your behalf by our installation teams, with a real deadline on the £9,000 version.
Read the guide →What the Smart Export Guarantee actually is
The scheme obliges suppliers to pay above zero, and leaves the rate to them.
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 →Get my free quote
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