Solar in North East: generation and cost

Across the 58 places we model in North East, the median is 861 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 North East produces 861 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
Shiney Row and Penshaw891340
Houghton-le-Spring887329
Hetton-le-Hole887250
Jarrow885813
Cramlington884762
Alnwick884331
Wallsend882973
Hebburn882479
Bedlington882451
Billingham879909
Ashington, Northumberland879751
Stakeford879244
Longbenton878640
Killingworth878279
Sunderland8764,452
Morpeth876639
Washington8751,188
Seaham870547
Whitley Bay868833
Tynemouth8671,721

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 North East 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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