Bedfordshire
Solar panels in Stotfold, designed on a free call.
A 12-panel roof in Stotfold makes about 6,500 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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How much a Stotfold roof makes, month by month
PVGIS puts Stotfold at 1,022 kWh per kWp a year, 1% below our Bedfordshire county estimate. 68% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in July.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 38 |
| February | 52.5 |
| March | 88.3 |
| April | 114 |
| May | 123 |
| June | 122 |
| July | 124 |
| August | 112 |
| September | 97.8 |
| October | 67.7 |
| November | 46.6 |
| December | 36.7 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
Against Great Britain as a whole: Stotfold makes 1,022 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Stotfold is 10% above it.
How Stotfold compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Stotfold. It is one of 15 Bedfordshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 10th of 15 for solar yield, a town of 13,575 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,022 kWh per kWp a year, 2.80 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £915 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £668 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Stotfold'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.
Any planning application in Stotfold sits with Central Bedfordshire, and its official House of Commons Library settlement class is 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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The figures use PVGIS for the centre of Stotfold (52.01219, -0.23478), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
UK Power Networks and your Stotfold connection
On NESO's licence-area map, Stotfold is in East England, which UK Power Networks operates. That makes UK Power Networks the network operator for any system fitted here.
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.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Stotfold
A heat pump in Stotfold
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Stotfold, a 12-panel system makes about 230 kWh in December and 240 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 Stotfold
Stotfold's 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.
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.
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 Stotfold
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Stotfold as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Stotfold solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Stotfold?
About 6,500 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Stotfold: 1,022 kWh per kWp, or 2.80 peak sun hours a day on average. July is the strongest month, at about 790 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Stotfold?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Stotfold, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 6,500 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Stotfold, and what does it need from me?
UK Power Networks covers Stotfold. 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 Stotfold?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Stotfold sends about 5,563 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £668. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Stotfold get in December?
December is the low point: about 230 kWh from a 12-panel system in Stotfold, on PVGIS data, rising to 790 kWh in July. From November to February the same system makes about 1,110 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Stotfold compares with its neighbours
Same satellite dataset, same assumptions, so the differences are real geography rather than modelling noise.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Stotfold |
|---|---|---|
| Stotfold | 1,022 | this town |
| Letchworth | 1,019 | −3 kWh |
| Baldock | 1,024 | +2 kWh |
| Hitchin | 1,016 | −6 kWh |
| Shefford | 1,025 | +3 kWh |
| Biggleswade | 1,029 | +7 kWh |
| Stevenage | 1,025 | +3 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 Stotfold: Solar panels in Stotfold from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Stotfold
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