Dorset
Solar panels in Upton, sized to your roof.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 6,960 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed around your roof on a free 30-minute video call.
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Upton's solar year
PVGIS puts Upton at 1,094 kWh per kWp a year, 1% above our Dorset 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 | 41.6 |
| February | 58.3 |
| March | 95.1 |
| April | 123 |
| May | 132 |
| June | 133 |
| July | 136 |
| August | 119 |
| September | 101 |
| October | 68 |
| November | 49.4 |
| December | 37.7 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
Our GB average is 925 kWh per kWp a year, the mean of the 85 county PVGIS estimates we publish; at 1,094, Upton is 18% above it.
How Upton compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Upton. It is one of 15 Dorset towns we track, and it ranks joint 9th of 15 for solar yield, a town of 8,555 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,094 kWh per kWp a year, 3.00 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £970 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £723 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Upton'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.
Dorset is the planning authority covering Upton, which the House of Commons Library classes 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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Generation is modelled from PVGIS satellite data for Upton's own coordinates (50.73697, -2.03053), using the same 26.32p/kWh import value and £1,000 per kWp installed pricing as every Clearline estimate; the methodology is on our help page.
Who runs the grid in Upton
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) owns and runs the local electricity network in Upton, as part of its Southern England licence area.
What decides the paperwork is the inverter and battery output, not the number of panels. Up to 3.68kW per phase, a system follows G98: SSEN is notified within 28 days of commissioning and nothing has to be approved first.
Anything bigger is a G99 case and is applied for first. SSEN says it can take up to 45 working days to issue a quotation for a generation connection above 3.68kW per phase and up to 50kW.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); SSEN, micro-generation connections page, checked 25 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Upton
A heat pump in Upton
A heat pump does most of its work from November to February. Over those four months, 12 panels in Upton make about 1,190 kWh, against 3,310 kWh from May to August, so winter heating runs mostly on grid electricity and the tariff matters more than the roof.
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 Upton
A 12-panel roof in Upton makes about 860 kWh in July. A typical home uses around 70 kWh of that in daylight (the calculator's typical-use settings), which leaves most of the month's output for an EV or for export.
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).
What the named kit costs, installed
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Upton
Faults, servicing and ageing inverters follow the same economics in Upton as anywhere else, and the guides below price them plainly.
Common questions about solar in Upton
What does a solar panel system produce in Upton?
Each kWp of panels in Upton makes 1,094 kWh a year on PVGIS figures, so a typical 12-panel system produces around 6,960 kWh, from about 240 kWh in December up to 860 kWh in July.
How much are solar panels in Upton?
The price does not move by postcode. At £1,000 per kWp installed, 12 panels (6.36 kWp) come to £6,360 in Upton before a battery. What Upton changes is the return, about 6,960 kWh a year from that system, and your design call prices your actual roof.
Would a system in Upton need approval from the network operator?
Upton is on Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks' network (Southern England licence area). Systems up to 3.68kW per phase of inverter output follow G98: SSEN is notified within 28 days of commissioning, with no approval needed first. Anything larger needs a G99 application before installation. SSEN says it can take up to 45 working days to issue a quotation for a generation connection above 3.68kW per phase and up to 50kW. Our G98 vs G99 guide explains both routes.
How much can I earn from exporting solar in Upton?
With typical use and no battery, a 12-panel system in Upton exports about 6,021 kWh a year. At 12p per kWh that is roughly £723; a supplier paying more, or a battery that keeps more for the evening, changes the figure. See the export rates table.
Is solar worth it in Upton in winter?
It works, but the year is lopsided. 68% of a Upton roof's output lands between April and September; the four months from November to February give about 1,190 kWh on a 12-panel system. Payback is worked out on the whole year, not the winter.
How Upton 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 Upton |
|---|---|---|
| Upton | 1,094 | this town |
| Corfe Mullen | 1,094 | level |
| Poole | 1,097 | +3 kWh |
| Wimborne Minster | 1,099 | +5 kWh |
| Bournemouth | 1,105 | +11 kWh |
| Ferndown | 1,112 | +18 kWh |
| West Moors | 1,112 | +18 kWh |
Same PVGIS v5.2 query for every town. Small differences are within year-to-year weather; more than about 30 kWh per kWp apart is geography.
Also for Upton: Solar panels in Upton from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Upton
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
The 0% VAT deadline: what ends on 31 March 2027, and what it costs to miss it
The install deadline is still 31 March 2027. Electricity's 0% VAT was extended to the end of June.
Read the guide →Inside a home battery: capacity, power and losses
Usable capacity, kW output, round trip losses and chemistry, in plain terms.
Read the guide →Charging an EV from your own solar
Every surplus kWh is 3.6 to 5 miles. Whether that beats a 7p overnight rate is arithmetic.
Read the guide →Sizing a heat pump: what a proper survey covers
Sized by calculation, not by rule of thumb. What the survey covers, and what guessing costs.
Read the guide →The price cap explained, and what it does to solar payback
The cap limits unit rates, not bills. That changes what solar payback means.
Read the guide →G98 or G99: which one applies, what the application involves, and how long it takes
The G98 line sits at 3.68kW per phase. Above it, your network operator has to say yes first.
Read the guide →Get my free quote
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