Solar in East Midlands: generation and cost

Across the 81 places we model in East Midlands, the median is 890 kWh a year for every kWp installed — against a UK median of 908. Individual towns and councils are listed below.

The median place we model in East Midlands produces 890 kWh a year per kWp, against a UK median of 908 across all the places in our set.

Installed cost on these pages uses the region’s own mean in the official cost statistics — the full table is on cost per kW.

The largest places we model here

PlacekWh per kWpLive postcodes
Boston9451,034
Louth943577
Thrapston940246
Raunds940234
Spalding939764
Stamford937604
Rushden934651
Bourne934433
Sleaford933512
Wellingborough9261,156
Grantham9261,079
Towcester926316
Skegness925626
Kettering9241,538
Corby9231,366
Northampton9214,527
Daventry921674
Market Harborough921589
Brackley919354
North Hykeham918361

Postcode counts are a size proxy from the ONS Postcode Directory, not population.

What varies within a region

More than between regions, usually. Two houses in the same town can differ by more than the gap between East Midlands and the national median, because orientation, pitch and shading dominate — which is why every place page here ends by pointing at the calculator rather than at a headline number.

Sources

  1. PVGIS 5.3 European Commission, Joint Research Centre · Accessed 20 August 2026 One run per place at its own postcode centroid. Contains modified Joint Research Centre data.
  2. Solar photovoltaic (PV) cost data Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Accessed 20 August 2026 · OGL v3.0

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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