Solar by local authority area

Every UK local authority area, with modelled solar output for its own postcode centroid. This is the layer that covers Scotland and Northern Ireland, where the built-up area geography we use for towns does not reach.

A council area is a large thing to model with one number, and a spread-out authority is represented here by the mean centroid of its live postcodes. Treat these as orientation: the town pages are closer to where people actually live, and the calculator is closer still to your own roof.

The UK median across every place we model is 908 kWh per kWp.

United Kingdom

Council areakWh per kWpLive postcodes
Aberdeen City8276,357
Aberdeenshire8089,899
Adur1,0321,852
Amber Valley8832,944
Angus8744,032
Antrim and Newtownabbey8203,428
Ards and North Down8884,148
Argyll and Bute7013,430
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon8275,229
Arun1,0485,185
Ashfield8762,744
Ashford1,0073,979
Babergh9733,532
Barking and Dagenham9423,066
Barnet9168,915
Barnsley8676,868
Basildon9674,131
Basingstoke and Deane9285,075
Bassetlaw8933,927
Bath and North East Somerset9235,928
Bedford9304,809
Belfast8317,345
Bexley9454,404
Birmingham87421,553
Blaby8982,369
Blackburn with Darwen7973,449
Blackpool9303,502
Blaenau Gwent8451,850
Bolsover8882,104
Bolton8107,289
Boston9452,100
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole1,0129,441
Bracknell Forest9213,061
Bradford84414,877
Braintree9624,595
Breckland9324,714
Brent9225,919
Brentwood9532,161
Bridgend9603,280
Brighton and Hove1,0385,077
Bristol, City of92311,735
Broadland9414,247
Bromley9377,209
Bromsgrove8762,893
Broxbourne9202,449
Broxtowe8802,614
Buckinghamshire90516,142
Burnley7902,401
Bury8065,006
Caerphilly8924,359
Calderdale8377,325
Cambridge9392,952
Camden9198,197
Cannock Chase8652,238
Canterbury9954,557
Cardiff9377,654
Carmarthenshire8856,728
Castle Point9662,046
Causeway Coast and Glens7884,081
Central Bedfordshire9226,862
Ceredigion8613,075
Charnwood8673,879
Chelmsford9604,365
Cheltenham8943,884
Cherwell9224,917
Cheshire East83512,329
Cheshire West and Chester85811,017
Chesterfield8692,902
Chichester1,0314,965
Chorley8022,929
City of Edinburgh83213,644
City of London9201,573
Clackmannanshire7911,343
Colchester9795,241
Conwy8584,119
Cornwall96622,038
Cotswold9163,696
County Durham85716,336
Coventry8916,416
Crawley9352,668
Croydon9257,044
Cumberland74010,473
Dacorum9214,037
Darlington8483,213
Dartford9532,458
Denbighshire8393,425
Derby8805,561
Derbyshire Dales8542,296
Derry City and Strabane7483,510
Doncaster8818,092
Dorset98813,264
Dover1,0303,926
Dudley8597,239
Dumfries and Galloway8206,922
Dundee City8474,473
Ealing9226,595
East Ayrshire7884,004
East Cambridgeshire9412,184
East Devon9466,141
East Dunbartonshire7783,277
East Hampshire9434,233
East Hertfordshire9384,698
East Lindsey9415,294
East Lothian8433,307
East Renfrewshire7612,532
East Riding of Yorkshire90711,003
East Staffordshire8813,013
East Suffolk9879,094
Eastbourne1,0592,862
Eastleigh9723,467
Elmbridge9283,838
Enfield9216,286
Epping Forest9323,581
Epsom and Ewell9211,897
Erewash8822,442
Exeter9493,630
Falkirk8004,176
Fareham1,0033,316
Fenland9393,023
Fermanagh and Omagh7815,736
Fife82610,342
Flintshire8794,539
Folkestone and Hythe1,0193,676
Forest of Dean9043,310
Fylde9192,357
Gateshead8575,188
Gedling8852,712
Glasgow City77015,778
Gloucester9013,103
Gosport1,0091,837
Gravesham9562,270
Great Yarmouth9572,756
Greenwich9405,224
Guildford9284,318
Gwynedd7775,596
Hackney9204,566
Halton8493,163
Hammersmith and Fulham9263,689
Harborough9172,669
Haringey9204,512
Harlow9421,805
Harrow9224,956
Hart9262,969
Hartlepool8642,700
Hastings1,0262,032
Havant1,0203,108
Havering9475,039
Herefordshire, County of8966,841
Hertsmere9173,034
High Peak7902,885
Highland7667,962
Hillingdon9266,166
Hinckley and Bosworth8992,650
Horsham9594,226
Hounslow9264,953
Huntingdonshire9425,236
Hyndburn7952,006
Inverclyde7792,327
Ipswich9773,342
Isle of Anglesey9162,897
Isle of Wight1,0535,135
Isles of Scilly1,02294
Islington9196,420
Kensington and Chelsea9234,333
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk9315,107
Kingston upon Hull, City of9015,815
Kingston upon Thames9273,506
Kirklees86411,495
Knowsley8543,801
Lambeth9216,168
Lancaster8344,266
Leeds85620,843
Leicester8866,101
Lewes1,0673,392
Lewisham9244,992
Lichfield8863,098
Lincoln9082,512
Lisburn and Castlereagh8323,495
Liverpool86910,626
Luton9243,237
Maidstone9725,438
Maldon9852,006
Malvern Hills9112,748
Manchester80114,279
Mansfield8822,668
Medway9476,179
Melton9161,587
Merthyr Tydfil8481,630
Merton9263,686
Mid Devon9163,494
Mid Suffolk9544,332
Mid Sussex9584,617
Mid Ulster8174,065
Mid and East Antrim7963,413
Middlesbrough8573,852
Midlothian8223,068
Milton Keynes9177,875
Mole Valley9303,154
Monmouthshire9023,298
Moray7863,399
Na h-Eileanan Siar696980
Neath Port Talbot8213,665
New Forest9945,523
Newark and Sherwood9073,661
Newcastle upon Tyne8586,722
Newcastle-under-Lyme8463,203
Newham9344,388
Newport9303,661
Newry, Mourne and Down8054,851
North Ayrshire8334,263
North Devon9023,792
North East Derbyshire8692,778
North East Lincolnshire9074,471
North Hertfordshire9233,907
North Kesteven9283,432
North Lanarkshire7548,009
North Lincolnshire8794,870
North Norfolk9574,556
North Northamptonshire9278,582
North Somerset9266,386
North Tyneside8825,066
North Warwickshire8882,000
North West Leicestershire8882,678
North Yorkshire86523,941
Northumberland86613,157
Norwich9313,342
Nottingham8766,789
Nuneaton and Bedworth8922,720
Oadby and Wigston9061,213
Oldham7785,905
Orkney Islands762736
Oxford9203,692
Pembrokeshire9205,017
Pendle7872,959
Perth and Kinross8065,519
Peterborough9324,402
Plymouth1,0126,290
Portsmouth1,0194,428
Powys7896,127
Preston8323,633
Reading9213,796
Redbridge9404,614
Redcar and Cleveland8624,090
Redditch8931,661
Reigate and Banstead9263,909
Renfrewshire7854,753
Rhondda Cynon Taf8575,427
Ribble Valley8072,038
Richmond upon Thames9284,385
Rochdale7855,774
Rochford9832,135
Rossendale7892,436
Rother1,0263,176
Rotherham8726,616
Rugby9052,923
Runnymede9272,423
Rushcliffe8943,037
Rushmoor9242,345
Rutland9241,283
Salford8146,701
Sandwell8676,921
Scottish Borders7904,532
Sefton8876,698
Sevenoaks9453,711
Sheffield85611,829
Shetland Islands703658
Shropshire88012,692
Slough9292,884
Solihull8854,703
Somerset94520,396
South Ayrshire8213,598
South Cambridgeshire9414,166
South Derbyshire8762,640
South Gloucestershire9077,259
South Hams9924,235
South Holland9432,859
South Kesteven9304,218
South Lanarkshire7888,731
South Norfolk9444,865
South Oxfordshire9125,318
South Ribble8292,685
South Staffordshire8703,053
South Tyneside8643,600
Southampton9645,806
Southend-on-Sea9813,635
Southwark9247,237
Spelthorne9282,490
St Albans9254,572
St. Helens8484,847
Stafford8653,895
Staffordshire Moorlands8303,015
Stevenage9281,934
Stirling7932,937
Stockport8016,803
Stockton-on-Tees8605,497
Stoke-on-Trent8376,554
Stratford-on-Avon9094,903
Stroud9044,185
Sunderland8787,200
Surrey Heath9192,352
Sutton9253,838
Swale9904,114
Swansea9205,795
Swindon9215,387
Tameside7836,020
Tamworth8891,554
Tandridge9332,347
Teignbridge9674,696
Telford and Wrekin8735,716
Tendring1,0294,804
Test Valley9483,839
Tewkesbury8973,102
Thanet1,0094,042
Three Rivers9152,534
Thurrock9583,280
Tonbridge and Malling9604,028
Torbay9793,772
Torfaen9032,575
Torridge9252,802
Tower Hamlets9235,941
Trafford8226,462
Tunbridge Wells9663,885
Uttlesford9473,073
Vale of Glamorgan9643,113
Vale of White Horse9424,286
Wakefield8759,676
Walsall8685,578
Waltham Forest9233,831
Wandsworth9236,306
Warrington8475,471
Warwick9024,118
Watford9152,464
Waverley9354,372
Wealden1,0086,053
Welwyn Hatfield9223,237
West Berkshire9225,433
West Devon8582,589
West Dunbartonshire7882,411
West Lancashire8522,825
West Lindsey9103,314
West Lothian7794,296
West Northamptonshire9219,873
West Oxfordshire9214,114
West Suffolk9425,395
Westminster92013,082
Westmorland and Furness7959,542
Wigan8347,973
Wiltshire93417,077
Winchester9474,206
Windsor and Maidenhead9314,537
Wirral8798,700
Woking9262,596
Wokingham9244,467
Wolverhampton8635,753
Worcester9032,554
Worthing1,0413,078
Wrexham8734,354
Wychavon9053,922
Wyre9153,243
Wyre Forest8883,314
York8765,445

In this section

Sources

  1. PVGIS 5.3 European Commission, Joint Research Centre · Accessed 20 August 2026 One run per area at its own postcode centroid. Contains modified Joint Research Centre data.
  2. ONS Postcode Directory and local authority names Office for National Statistics · Accessed 20 August 2026 · OGL v3.0

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