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Solar, battery storage, EV charging and heat pumps for East Lothian homes: independent guidance on a free remote design call, then an MCS-certified installation team for your area when you are ready. PVGIS puts a East Lothian roof at 872 kWh per kWp a year, 6% below the mean of our 85 county estimates.
Start with your postcode
Free, no obligation. Takes about two minutes, and nobody visits your home.
Four routes, one honest conversation
Each guide explains the technology in plain English. Your free call makes it specific to your East Lothian home: the roof, the usage, the tariff.
Solar PV
Panels sized to your roof and the way you actually use energy.
Read the guide →Battery Storage
Store cheap off-peak power and your own solar, skip peak rates.
Read the guide →EV Charging
The right charger and tariff make overnight the cheapest miles.
Read the guide →Heat Pumps
Efficient electric heating, with grant support in England and Wales.
Read the guide →Remote first. Local when it matters.
The design call happens on video, wherever in East Lothian you are. The installation, if you go ahead, is carried out by an MCS-certified installation team for your area.
Tell us about your home
Two minutes on the form. Property, roughly what you spend, and what you are interested in.
Free remote design call
A video call, not a home visit. We look at your roof and usage together and talk through what fits.
Home survey and written quote
When you are ready, a home survey confirms the design at your property and your written quote follows. MCS is the certification most export tariffs require an installation to hold before they pay you.
Install day and switch-on
The installation team for your area fits the system and handles the paperwork, backed by their own MCS certification, insurance and workmanship warranty.
What a roof in East Lothian can generate,
and what it would cost
Real satellite data for East Lothian, real installed pricing. Slide, tap and see the numbers move.
How East Lothian compares
East Lothian ranks 57th of the 85 counties we track for solar yield. Self use does the heavy lifting here: of the £800 year one benefit on a typical 12 panel system, £247 comes from replacing 26.32p imports with your own generation, which is why battery sizing matters more than panel count.
A 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in East Lothian generates around 5,546 kWh a year, worth around £800 in year one on the 12p export scenario.
The charger is in the installed price but left out of payback: charging savings depend on your mileage and tariff, which the design call models properly.
Price this properly, free →Your real roof, your real usage, on a free video call. No obligation.
Generation from PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC, SARAH3), retrieved August 2026 for a representative point in East Lothian (55.9353, -2.704), assuming 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south. Import valued at 26.32p/kWh (Ofgem price cap average, Oct to Dec 2026); off-peak charging at 8p/kWh where used (a supplier's published EV off-peak rate, checked Aug 2026); export at the scenario you pick, from the dated tariff table. Prices are installed pricing, August 2026, standard installations; 530W LONGi panels at £1,000 per kWp. Estimates for illustration, not a quote: your free design call prices your actual roof.
Common questions about solar in East Lothian
What could a roof in East Lothian generate?
PVGIS puts a roof in East Lothian at 872 kWh per kWp a year, 2.39 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons.
What does a typical solar system cost in East Lothian?
A typical 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in East Lothian costs around £6,360 installed, at £1,000 per kWp before any battery.
Would a system in East Lothian need approval from the network operator?
Most home solar and battery systems qualify for the simpler G98 notification, made to the network operator (DNO) after installation rather than before. A minority, usually larger systems, need the fuller G99 process instead. Your design call checks which applies in East Lothian before anything is booked; our G98 vs G99 guide and our DNO explainer cover it in full.
What would the payback be on a typical system in East Lothian?
On the 12p export scenario, that system pays back in around 8.0 years, from about £800 of estimated year one benefit.
Get your free quote
Takes about two minutes. We work out your options, then confirm your free remote design call, on video, at a time that suits you. It starts with your roof and your numbers, and the design is built around them rather than around a product someone needs to shift.
Towns we cover in East Lothian
Reading for East Lothian homeowners
The same guidance we would talk through on your call, written down and sourced.
How do solar panels work? The full explanation, from photon to plug socket
Light into silicon, DC into AC, AC into your bill. The whole chain, explained.
Read the guide →How much a battery saves by charging on cheap night rates
What charging at 8p and using at 26.11p is actually worth over a year.
Read the guide →Charging an EV from your own solar
Every surplus kWh is 3.6 to 5 miles. Whether that beats a 7p overnight rate is arithmetic.
Read the guide →Are heat pumps noisy? The 37 dB(A) answer, in plain terms
The 1 metre boundary rule is gone. A 37 dB(A) sound test replaced it.
Read the guide →Choosing a tariff when you have solar, a battery and an EV
Solar, battery and EV want different tariffs. How to work out which one to protect.
Read the guide →NAPIT, NICEIC and competent person schemes: who tells building control about your solar
Solar work is notifiable. A competent person scheme means your installation team notifies, not you.
Read the guide →