Metered, not modelled
Solar output in Darlington & Newton Aycliffe
678–832 kWh per kWp a year
the middle half of 247 real Darlington & Newton Aycliffe systems, measured over 2024
- Systems measured 247
- Median 773
- Best 10% of roofs 876
- Rank of 49 areas 29th
- Typical system size 3.2 kWp
A typical 4 kWp system here made roughly 2,710 to 3,330 units of electricity last year.
Not a forecast. 247 solar systems around Darlington & Newton Aycliffe were metered through 2024, and the middle half made 678 to 832 kWh for every kWp of panels.
A good roof does better still: the top tenth here reached around 876 kWh per kWp, against a British median of 766.
That places Darlington & Newton Aycliffe 29th of 49, ahead of 20 of the areas we can measure.
At the other end, the quietest tenth of systems here made about 580 kWh per kWp — usually shade, a poor direction, or both.
Systems here are bigger than typical, a median of 3.2 kWp against 2.9 nationally.
What none of it tells you is what your own roof would do. These systems point in every direction and some have been up for fifteen years.
The spread behind that number
Every Darlington & Newton Aycliffe system, grouped by what it made, against Britain as a whole. The two shapes overlap heavily, which is the honest headline: your postcode nudges the result, your roof decides it.
Darlington & Newton Aycliffe: the middle half of 247 systems made 678–832 kWh per kWp.
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Output figures from openclimatefix/uk_pv (Hugging Face, CC-BY-4.0), collected by Sheffield Solar. The British median is 766 kWh per kWp. How we measure.
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