Staffordshire
Solar panels in Stafford, priced before anyone visits.
About 6,050 kWh a year from 12 panels in Stafford, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Stafford, in numbers
Stafford's best month is May, at 119.1 kWh per kWp; December manages 31.8. Over the year that comes to 952 kWh per kWp, level with our Staffordshire county estimate.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 33.3 |
| February | 50.2 |
| March | 83 |
| April | 109 |
| May | 119 |
| June | 114 |
| July | 118 |
| August | 104 |
| September | 89 |
| October | 60 |
| November | 40.6 |
| December | 31.8 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 952 kWh per kWp in Stafford against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Stafford 3% above it.
How Stafford compares
Stafford is one of 44 Staffordshire towns we track, and it ranks 32nd of 44 for solar yield. The House of Commons Library settlement data classes it as a large town of 75,051 people. At 952 kWh per kWp a year, a typical 12 panel system here pays for itself in around 7.4 years on the 12p scenario: £861 of year one benefit against £6,360 installed, £247 of that benefit from cutting 26.32p imports with your own generation.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Stafford'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.
Stafford is its own local planning authority area, and its House of Commons Library settlement class is large 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 Stafford (52.80495, -2.10987), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
The network operator for Stafford
Stafford sits in National Grid Electricity Distribution's West Midlands licence area, so NGED 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 NGED within 28 days of commissioning, with no prior approval.
Larger systems go through G99 instead, applied for before installation. On timing: NGED's guaranteed standards give 45 working days for a low voltage generation quotation, with £80 paid for each working day late.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); NGED, guaranteed standards of performance table, checked 25 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Stafford
A heat pump in Stafford
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Stafford, a 12-panel system makes about 200 kWh in December and 210 kWh in January, a fraction of its 760 kWh in May, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
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 Stafford
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Stafford make about 760 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.
The calculator above includes a 7.4kW smart charger from £1,100 installed. Renters and flat owners with off-street parking can claim 75% of a chargepoint's cost, up to £500 per socket, until 31 March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
The packages, priced before anyone visits
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Stafford
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Stafford as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Stafford solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Stafford?
About 6,050 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Stafford: 952 kWh per kWp, or 2.61 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 760 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Stafford?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Stafford, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,050 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Stafford, and what does it need from me?
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) covers Stafford. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to NGED within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. NGED's guaranteed standards give 45 working days for a low voltage generation quotation, with £80 paid for each working day late.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Stafford?
Around £614 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,118 kWh a 12-panel system in Stafford 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 Stafford get in December?
December is the low point: about 200 kWh from a 12-panel system in Stafford, on PVGIS data, rising to 760 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 990 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Stafford compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Stafford.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Stafford |
|---|---|---|
| Stafford | 952 | this town |
| Penkridge | 959 | +7 kWh |
| Stone | 951 | −1 kWh |
| Rugeley | 971 | +19 kWh |
| Cannock | 954 | +2 kWh |
| Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay | 953 | +1 kWh |
| Norton Canes | 957 | +5 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 Stafford: Solar panels in Stafford from OVO Solar & Battery
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