Solar in West Midlands: generation and cost

Across the 75 places we model in West Midlands, the median is 873 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 West Midlands produces 873 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
Stratford-upon-Avon913821
Ledbury910272
Pershore909322
Rugby9051,763
Royal Leamington Spa9051,404
Worcester9032,610
Warwick9021,014
Kenilworth901500
Hereford9001,569
Great Malvern8991,037
Ross-on-Wye897360
Evesham896685
Stourport-on-Severn895541
Knowle and Dorridge895451
Atherstone895271
Bedworth894612
Nuneaton8921,717
Droitwich Spa892604
Coventry8916,329
Redditch8911,532

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 West 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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