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Solar panel and battery installers in Gateshead
Mark holds the OVO partnership for North East, and Gateshead sits in their NE postcode patch. Book a free 45 minute video design and you get your roof layout, your numbers and a written quote, with nobody setting foot in your home.
What solar actually does in Gateshead
PVGIS puts Gateshead at 942 kWh per kWp a year, which is 2.58 peak sun hours a day. A 14 panel (6.3 kWp) system here generates around 5,935 kWh a year, and on a typical system with battery roughly 55% of that is exported, worth about £655 a year at OVO's 20p export rate. Mark's team sizes it to how you actually use energy, on a free 45 minute video call.
Yield and peak sun hours are PVGIS estimates for Gateshead's own coordinates, not a regional average. Your free design refines them for your actual roof.
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Worth reading before your Gateshead design call
Straight answers from the OVO Solar and Battery team, sourced and dated.
What a DNO is, and why it gets a say in your solar system
Your supplier sells you power. Your DNO owns the cables, and sets how much you can connect.
Read the guide →Cloudy days and north facing roofs, answered honestly
Cloud reduces output, it does not switch it off. North facing depends on pitch more than compass.
Read the guide →How much a home battery saves, unit by unit
What a battery saves per unit, per night and per year, with the losses taken off.
Read the guide →How a home battery actually works
A battery moves electricity from a cheap hour to an expensive one. Here is how.
Read the guide →The energy price cap, and what it does to your solar payback
The cap sets your unit price. That price is what every unit of your own solar is worth.
Read the guide →Which export rate can you actually qualify for?
The gate behind every headline rate, and the six things to check before you believe one.
Read the guide →Solar installers near Gateshead
We also cover Birtley, Hebburn, Whickham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Washington and Blaydon.
See Mark's full North East coverage →Independent solar guidance for Gateshead from Clearline Home Energy
Generation figures are PVGIS v5.2 estimates retrieved August 2026 for the coordinates of Gateshead, assuming a south-facing roof at a 35 degree pitch with no significant shading, the same assumptions as the regional figures on this site. Population is the House of Commons Library settlement classification figure. Your free design accounts for your actual orientation, pitch and shading. Export income assumes roughly 55% of generation is exported on a typical system with battery.