Solar in North West: generation and cost

Across the 155 places we model in North West, the median is 821 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 West produces 821 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
Blackpool9303,771
Thornton, Wyre929517
Cleveleys929271
Lytham St Anne’s9251,232
Fleetwood917646
Poulton-le-Fylde917373
Barrow-in-Furness9121,607
Formby912653
Dalton-in-Furness906248
Southport8932,040
Kirkham888239
Crosby, Sefton8871,114
West Kirby886411
Wallasey8842,174
Heswall879842
Neston, Cheshire West and Chester879447
Bootle, Sefton8781,428
Litherland878413
Ulverston877428
Maghull872463

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 West 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

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