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Solar panels in Wixams, priced before anyone visits.
About 6,530 kWh a year from 12 panels in Wixams, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Wixams, in numbers
Wixams' best month is July, at 125.2 kWh per kWp; December manages 37.4. Over the year that comes to 1,026 kWh per kWp, level with our Bedfordshire county estimate.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 39.8 |
| February | 53.9 |
| March | 88.8 |
| April | 112 |
| May | 123 |
| June | 123 |
| July | 125 |
| August | 112 |
| September | 96.7 |
| October | 67.5 |
| November | 47.1 |
| December | 37.4 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 1,026 kWh per kWp in Wixams against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Wixams 11% above it.
How Wixams compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Wixams. It is one of 15 Bedfordshire towns we track, and it ranks 5th of 15 for solar yield, a town of 9,142 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 1,026 kWh per kWp a year, 2.81 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £918 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £671 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Wixams' 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 Bedford; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Wixams 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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The figures use PVGIS for the centre of Wixams (52.08994, -0.47165), 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 Wixams connection
Wixams is served by UK Power Networks: the town's centre falls inside its East England licence area on NESO's boundary map.
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.
Larger systems go through G99 instead, applied for before installation. On timing: 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.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Wixams
A heat pump in Wixams
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Wixams, a 12-panel system makes about 240 kWh in December and 250 kWh in January, a fraction of its 800 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 Wixams
Summer is where a car earns its place. In July, 12 panels in Wixams make about 800 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.
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 Wixams
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Wixams as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Solar in Wixams: your questions answered
How much electricity do solar panels make in Wixams?
About 6,530 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Wixams: 1,026 kWh per kWp, or 2.81 peak sun hours a day on average. July is the strongest month, at about 800 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Wixams?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Wixams, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 6,530 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Wixams, and what does it need from me?
UK Power Networks covers Wixams. 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 happens to the solar I do not use in Wixams?
Around £671 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 5,589 kWh a 12-panel system in Wixams 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 Wixams get in December?
December is the low point: about 240 kWh from a 12-panel system in Wixams, on PVGIS data, rising to 800 kWh in July. From November to February the same system makes about 1,130 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Wixams 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 Wixams |
|---|---|---|
| Wixams | 1,026 | this town |
| Kempston | 1,028 | +2 kWh |
| Wootton | 1,024 | −2 kWh |
| Bedford | 1,028 | +2 kWh |
| Ampthill | 1,024 | −2 kWh |
| Flitwick | 1,023 | −3 kWh |
| Cranfield | 1,019 | −7 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 Wixams: Solar panels in Wixams from OVO Solar & Battery
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