Metered, not modelled
Solar output in Manchester
611–746 kWh per kWp a year
the middle half of 2,025 real Manchester systems, measured over 2024
- Systems measured 2,025
- Median 684
- Best 10% of roofs 787
- Rank of 49 areas 47th
- Typical system size 2.7 kWp
A typical 4 kWp system here made roughly 2,440 to 2,980 units of electricity last year.
Manchester has one of the largest metered samples in Britain. 2,025 solar systems here were read from their own meters through 2024, and the middle half made 611 to 746 kWh for every kWp of panels.
Even here the best tenth made around 787 kWh per kWp, clearing the British median of 766. The average in Manchester is low; the ceiling is not.
That places Manchester 47th of 49, near the bottom of the areas we can measure — worth knowing rather than glossing over.
At the other end, the quietest tenth of systems here made about 508 kWh per kWp — usually shade, a poor direction, or both.
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 Manchester 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.
Manchester: the middle half of 2,025 systems made 611–746 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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