Solar in Yorkshire and The Humber: generation and cost

Across the 108 places we model in Yorkshire and The Humber, 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 Yorkshire and The Humber 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
Humberston and New Waltham934433
Driffield910409
Beverley908891
Grimsby9072,332
Hornsea905247
Immingham902338
Barton-upon-Humber902306
Kingston upon Hull9015,911
Willerby, Anlaby and Kirk Ella901515
Cottingham901451
Cleethorpes898735
Hessle896428
Conisbrough895297
Maltby892341
Warmsworth892241
Goole889480
New Rossington and Rossington889322
Mexborough888352
Wickersley and Bramley887528
Thorne887335

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 Yorkshire and The Humber 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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