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Solar panels in Swinton (Rotherham), priced before anyone visits.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 6,080 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed around your roof on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Swinton (Rotherham), in numbers
PVGIS puts Swinton (Rotherham) at 956 kWh per kWp a year, 1% below our Yorkshire county estimate. 68% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 33.7 |
| February | 52 |
| March | 84.5 |
| April | 106 |
| May | 119 |
| June | 112 |
| July | 117 |
| August | 108 |
| September | 88.4 |
| October | 60.8 |
| November | 42.1 |
| December | 32.3 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 956 kWh per kWp in Swinton (Rotherham) against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Swinton (Rotherham) 3% above it.
How Swinton (Rotherham) compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Swinton (Rotherham). It is one of 122 Yorkshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 49th of 122 for solar yield, a town of 16,315 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 956 kWh per kWp a year, 2.62 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £864 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £617 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Swinton (Rotherham)'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 Rotherham; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Swinton (Rotherham) 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 Swinton (Rotherham) at 53.48314, -1.3131 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
The network operator for Swinton (Rotherham)
On NESO's licence-area map, Swinton (Rotherham) is in Yorkshire, which Northern Powergrid operates. That makes Northern Powergrid 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 Northern Powergrid within 28 days of switch-on. Panel count does not decide it; the inverter and any battery do.
Larger systems go through G99 instead, applied for before installation. On timing: Northern Powergrid publishes a guaranteed standard of 45 working days to quote for a low voltage generation connection.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); Northern Powergrid, generation connections page, checked 25 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Swinton (Rotherham)
A heat pump in Swinton (Rotherham)
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Swinton (Rotherham) make about 210 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Swinton (Rotherham) comes down to the tariff and the flow temperature rather than the roof.
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 Swinton (Rotherham)
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Swinton (Rotherham) 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.
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 Swinton (Rotherham)
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Swinton (Rotherham) as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Swinton (Rotherham) solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Swinton (Rotherham)?
About 6,080 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Swinton (Rotherham): 956 kWh per kWp, or 2.62 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 760 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Swinton (Rotherham)?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Swinton (Rotherham), exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,080 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Swinton (Rotherham), and what does it need from me?
Northern Powergrid covers Swinton (Rotherham). A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to Northern Powergrid within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. Northern Powergrid publishes a guaranteed standard of 45 working days to quote for a low voltage generation connection.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Swinton (Rotherham)?
Around £617 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,143 kWh a 12-panel system in Swinton (Rotherham) 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 Swinton (Rotherham) get in December?
December is the low point: about 210 kWh from a 12-panel system in Swinton (Rotherham), on PVGIS data, rising to 760 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 1,020 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Swinton (Rotherham) compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Swinton (Rotherham) compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Swinton (Rotherham) |
|---|---|---|
| Swinton (Rotherham) | 956 | this town |
| Mexborough | 968 | +12 kWh |
| Wath upon Dearne | 954 | −2 kWh |
| Rawmarsh | 956 | level |
| Goldthorpe | 955 | −1 kWh |
| Conisbrough | 979 | +23 kWh |
| Rotherham | 951 | −5 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.
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