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Solar panels in Thornaby-on-Tees, priced before anyone visits.
About 5,970 kWh a year from 12 panels in Thornaby-on-Tees, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Thornaby-on-Tees, in numbers
From 28.7 kWh per kWp in December to 120.2 in May: a roof in Thornaby-on-Tees makes 4.2 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 938 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 32.4 |
| February | 47.8 |
| March | 82.1 |
| April | 108 |
| May | 120 |
| June | 112 |
| July | 118 |
| August | 104 |
| September | 86.3 |
| October | 58.2 |
| November | 40.5 |
| December | 28.7 |
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: Thornaby-on-Tees makes 938 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Thornaby-on-Tees is 1% above it.
How Thornaby-on-Tees compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Thornaby-on-Tees. It is one of 122 Yorkshire towns we track, and it ranks 92nd of 122 for solar yield, a town of 24,723 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 938 kWh per kWp a year, 2.57 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £850 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £603 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Thornaby-on-Tees' 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 Stockton-on-Tees; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Thornaby-on-Tees 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 Thornaby-on-Tees at 54.54254, -1.29468 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 Thornaby-on-Tees
Thornaby-on-Tees sits in Northern Powergrid's North East England licence area, so Northern Powergrid 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 Northern Powergrid within 28 days of commissioning, with no prior approval.
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 Thornaby-on-Tees
A heat pump in Thornaby-on-Tees
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Thornaby-on-Tees, a 12-panel system makes about 180 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.
Grant support in England comes from the Boiler Upgrade Scheme: £7,500 for an air source or ground source heat pump, £2,500 for air-to-air, and an extra £1,500 until March 2027 where the home is heated by oil or LPG off the gas grid (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
Charging an EV in Thornaby-on-Tees
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Thornaby-on-Tees 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.
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.
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 Thornaby-on-Tees
If a system in Thornaby-on-Tees is underperforming, start with the guides below: repair benchmarks, service scope, and the inverter question.
Thornaby-on-Tees solar questions
How much energy would 12 solar panels make in Thornaby-on-Tees?
Thornaby-on-Tees averages 2.57 peak sun hours a day, which PVGIS turns into 938 kWh per kWp a year. On a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp roof that is about 5,970 kWh, 69% of it between April and September.
What does a typical solar system cost in Thornaby-on-Tees?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Thornaby-on-Tees, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 5,970 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Who is the network operator in Thornaby-on-Tees, and do I need a G99 application?
The operator is Northern Powergrid. Most home systems use the G98 route, a notification within 28 days of switch-on for up to 3.68kW per phase, so nothing waits on the network. Above that, G99 applies and has to be granted first. Northern Powergrid publishes a guaranteed standard of 45 working days to quote for a low voltage generation connection. Your design call checks which route yours needs.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Thornaby-on-Tees?
Around £603 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,029 kWh a 12-panel system in Thornaby-on-Tees exports with typical use. Rates vary by supplier and some need their own tariff; the export rates table is dated and sourced.
How does solar perform in Thornaby-on-Tees in the winter months?
December is the weakest month in Thornaby-on-Tees: about 180 kWh from 12 panels, against 760 kWh in May. The panels still generate on bright winter days; they just cover a smaller share of what the house uses.
How Thornaby-on-Tees 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 Thornaby-on-Tees |
|---|---|---|
| Thornaby-on-Tees | 938 | this town |
| Ingleby Barwick | 942 | +4 kWh |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 945 | +7 kWh |
| Egglescliffe | 941 | +3 kWh |
| Middlesbrough | 939 | +1 kWh |
| Yarm | 921 | −17 kWh |
| Billingham | 947 | +9 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 Thornaby-on-Tees: Solar panels in Thornaby-on-Tees from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Thornaby-on-Tees
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