Metered, not modelled
Solar output in Wakefield
601–814 kWh per kWp a year
the middle half of 63 real Wakefield systems, measured over 2024
- Systems measured 63
- Median 726
- Best 10% of roofs 841
- Rank of 49 areas 46th
- Typical system size 2.6 kWp
A typical 4 kWp system here made roughly 2,400 to 3,260 units of electricity last year.
Not a forecast. 63 solar systems around Wakefield were metered through 2024, and the middle half made 601 to 814 kWh for every kWp of panels.
Even here the best tenth made around 841 kWh per kWp, clearing the British median of 766. The average in Wakefield is low; the ceiling is not.
That places Wakefield 46th of 49, near the bottom of the areas we can measure — worth knowing rather than glossing over.
Roofs here vary more than most: 213 kWh per kWp separates the lower quarter from the upper, against 161 nationally. In a place like this the roof matters more than the postcode.
At the other end, the quietest tenth of systems here made about 559 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 Wakefield 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.
Wakefield: the middle half of 63 systems made 601–814 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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