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Solar panels in Wickersley and Bramley.

Twelve panels here make about 6,160 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed on a free 30-minute video call.

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Sunlight in Wickersley and Bramley

How much a Wickersley and Bramley roof makes, month by month

PVGIS puts Wickersley and Bramley at 968 kWh per kWp a year, 1% above our Yorkshire county estimate. 68% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.

Map showing Wickersley and Bramley in Yorkshire A simplified outline map of Yorkshire with neighbouring counties shown faintly, and a pin marking the location of Wickersley and Bramley.
Wickersley and Bramley in Yorkshire

Generation per kWp, month by month

Wickersley and Bramley, 968 kWh per kWp a year
Wickersley and Bramley, monthly generation per kWp Bar chart, twelve months January to December. Peak May at 121 kWh/kWp. Lowest December at 32.5 kWh/kWp. Full values are in the table below this chart. 139 0 JFMAMJJASOND 121
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Wickersley and Bramley, monthly generation per kWp - monthly figures (kWh/kWp)
MonthkWh/kWp
January33.2
February52.2
March85.1
April108
May121
June114
July119
August109
September90.2
October61.5
November42.4
December32.5

Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.

6,160kWh a year, 12 panels
770kWh in May, the peak
210kWh in December

Our GB average is 925 kWh per kWp a year, the mean of the 85 county PVGIS estimates we publish; at 968, Wickersley and Bramley is 5% above it.

How Wickersley and Bramley compares

Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Wickersley and Bramley. It is one of 122 Yorkshire towns we track, and it ranks joint 31st of 122 for solar yield, a town of 24,956 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 968 kWh per kWp a year, 2.65 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £873 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £626 from export at 12p.

Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Wickersley and Bramley's own yield, and prices a 12 panel system at £6,360 installed before any battery. Your free design call reworks every number for your actual roof, its shading and your usage.

Planning applications here go through Rotherham; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Wickersley and Bramley as a small town.

12 panels
530W panels. Most semi-detached roofs take 10 to 16 on one pitch.
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Installed prices. The named packages are the ones running on our current offers; the Duracell prices are for an installation alongside solar.
Electricity use
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Estimated benefit, year one
£873
£73 a month · payback 7.3 yrs
System price, installed
£6,360
Simple payback
7.3 yrs
Generates a year
6,156 kWh
Exported
5,220 kWh at 12p
Where the money comes from
Solar you use, Export income, Off-peak shifting,

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Modelled for Wickersley and Bramley at 53.42666, -1.2772 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.

Local grid

The network operator for Wickersley and Bramley

Northern Powergrid owns and runs the local electricity network in Wickersley and Bramley, as part of its Yorkshire licence area.

For a typical home the paperwork is light: a system of up to 3.68kW per phase goes through G98, which means Northern Powergrid is notified within 28 days of switch-on rather than asked beforehand.

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.

Aerial view of a red-brick new-build home with a dark solar panel array on the front roof pitch
A dense panel array fitted to a new-build home's front roof pitch.
Beyond solar

Heat pumps and EV charging in Wickersley and Bramley

A heat pump in Wickersley and Bramley

In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Wickersley and Bramley make about 210 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Wickersley and Bramley 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).

How heat pumps work

Charging an EV in Wickersley and Bramley

Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Wickersley and Bramley make about 770 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.

EV charging explained

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Solar panel servicing and repair in Wickersley and Bramley

If a system in Wickersley and Bramley is underperforming, start with the guides below: repair benchmarks, service scope, and the inverter question.

FAQs

Wickersley and Bramley solar questions

How much energy would 12 solar panels make in Wickersley and Bramley?

Wickersley and Bramley averages 2.65 peak sun hours a day, which PVGIS turns into 968 kWh per kWp a year. On a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp roof that is about 6,160 kWh, 68% of it between April and September.

What does a typical solar system cost in Wickersley and Bramley?

Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Wickersley and Bramley, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,160 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.

Who is the network operator in Wickersley and Bramley, 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 Wickersley and Bramley?

Around £626 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,220 kWh a 12-panel system in Wickersley and Bramley 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 Wickersley and Bramley in the winter months?

December is the weakest month in Wickersley and Bramley: about 210 kWh from 12 panels, against 770 kWh in May. The panels still generate on bright winter days; they just cover a smaller share of what the house uses.

How Wickersley and Bramley compares with its neighbours

Same satellite dataset, same assumptions, so the differences are real geography rather than modelling noise.

TownkWh per kWp a yearvs Wickersley and Bramley
Wickersley and Bramley968this town
Maltby977+9 kWh
Rotherham951−17 kWh
Rawmarsh956−12 kWh
Brinsworth951−17 kWh
Swinton (Rotherham)956−12 kWh
Conisbrough979+11 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.

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