Metered, not modelled
Solar output in Oldham & Rochdale
681–758 kWh per kWp a year
the middle half of 133 real Oldham & Rochdale systems, measured over 2024
- Systems measured 133
- Median 733
- Best 10% of roofs 779
- Rank of 49 areas 45th
- Typical system size 3.1 kWp
A typical 4 kWp system here made roughly 2,720 to 3,030 units of electricity last year.
Not a forecast. 133 solar systems around Oldham & Rochdale were metered through 2024, and the middle half made 681 to 758 kWh for every kWp of panels.
A good roof does better still: the top tenth here reached around 779 kWh per kWp, against a British median of 766.
Systems here land unusually close together — just 77 kWh per kWp between the lower and upper quarter, against 161 nationally. Results in Oldham & Rochdale are more predictable than most of Britain.
That places Oldham & Rochdale 45th of 49, near the bottom of the areas we can measure — worth knowing rather than glossing over.
The local roof stock is unusually well pointed: 96% of these systems face south, south-east or south-west, against 86% nationally. Some of the figure above is orientation rather than weather.
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 Oldham & Rochdale 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.
Oldham & Rochdale: the middle half of 133 systems made 681–758 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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