Cheshire
Solar panels in Wythenshawe, designed on a free call.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 5,800 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed around your roof on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Wythenshawe roof makes, month by month
Wythenshawe's best month is May, at 117.5 kWh per kWp; January manages 28.3. Over the year that comes to 912 kWh per kWp, 3% below our Cheshire county estimate.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 28.3 |
| February | 47.8 |
| March | 80.6 |
| April | 106 |
| May | 118 |
| June | 112 |
| July | 112 |
| August | 100 |
| September | 83.3 |
| October | 57.2 |
| November | 38.7 |
| December | 29.1 |
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: Wythenshawe makes 912 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Wythenshawe is 1% below it.
How Wythenshawe compares
Wythenshawe is one of 45 Cheshire towns we track, and it ranks 27th of 45 for solar yield. The House of Commons Library settlement data classes it as a large town of 93,433 people. At 912 kWh per kWp a year, a typical 12 panel system here pays for itself in around 7.7 years on the 12p scenario: £830 of year one benefit against £6,360 installed, £247 of that benefit from cutting 26.32p imports with your own generation.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Wythenshawe'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 Manchester; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Wythenshawe as a large 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 Wythenshawe's own coordinates (53.386, -2.26304), 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.
The network operator for Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe is served by Electricity North West: the town's centre falls inside its North West England licence area on NESO's boundary map.
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: Electricity North West is notified within 28 days of commissioning and nothing has to be approved first.
Above that, G99 means applying before the work is booked. 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 Electricity North West 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 Wythenshawe
A heat pump in Wythenshawe
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Wythenshawe, a 12-panel system makes about 190 kWh in December and 180 kWh in January, a fraction of its 750 kWh in May, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme, open in England and Wales, takes £7,500 off an air source or ground source heat pump, or £2,500 off an air-to-air unit. Homes on oil or LPG with no mains gas get £1,500 more until March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
Charging an EV in Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe's May output, about 750 kWh from 12 panels, is several times the 70 kWh or so a typical home uses in daylight that month on our calculator's settings. Daytime charging turns that surplus into miles.
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 Wythenshawe
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Wythenshawe as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Solar in Wythenshawe: your questions answered
How much electricity do solar panels make in Wythenshawe?
About 5,800 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Wythenshawe: 912 kWh per kWp, or 2.50 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 750 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Wythenshawe?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Wythenshawe, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 5,800 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Wythenshawe, and what does it need from me?
Electricity North West covers Wythenshawe. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to Electricity North West 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 Electricity North West as it does every network operator.
What could I earn from exporting in Wythenshawe?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Wythenshawe sends about 4,864 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £584. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Wythenshawe get in December?
December is the low point: about 190 kWh from a 12-panel system in Wythenshawe, on PVGIS data, rising to 750 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 920 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Wythenshawe compares with its neighbours
The six closest towns we publish, run through the identical PVGIS query as Wythenshawe.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Wythenshawe |
|---|---|---|
| Wythenshawe | 912 | this town |
| Gatley | 902 | −10 kWh |
| Hale | 921 | +9 kWh |
| Cheadle (Stockport) | 903 | −9 kWh |
| Cheadle Hulme | 897 | −15 kWh |
| Altrincham | 922 | +10 kWh |
| Sale | 913 | +1 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 Wythenshawe: Solar panels in Wythenshawe from OVO Solar & Battery
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