Home › Coverage › Aberdeenshire › Aberdeen
AberdeenshireSolar panels in Aberdeen,
priced honestly.
Independent guidance on solar and battery storage for Aberdeen homes in Aberdeenshire: a free remote design call first, then an MCS-certified installation team for your area if you decide to go ahead. PVGIS puts a roof in Aberdeen at 903 kWh per kWp a year, 7% above our Aberdeenshire county estimate.
Start with your postcode
Free, no obligation. Takes about two minutes, and nobody visits your home.
What a roof in Aberdeen can generate
Real satellite data for Aberdeen, real installed pricing, and the same honest model we run for every place we cover.
How Aberdeen compares
Aberdeen is classed as a city in the House of Commons Library settlement data, home to 192,975 people. It is one of 5 Aberdeenshire towns we track, and it ranks 3rd of 5 for solar yield. Its 903 kWh per kWp a year works out at 2.47 peak sun hours a day, and running the standard 12 panel model here splits the return into £247 of savings from generation you use yourself and £577 of export income at 12p, with about 4,806 kWh a year going to the grid.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, defaulted to Aberdeen's own yield, and at Aberdeen's 903 kWh per kWp it prices a 12 panel system at £6,360 installed before any battery. Your free design call reworks every number for your actual roof, its shading and your usage.
Aberdeen City is the planning authority covering Aberdeen, which the House of Commons Library classes as a city.
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.
A 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in Aberdeen generates around 5,743 kWh a year, worth around £823 in year one on the 12p export scenario.
Generation is modelled from PVGIS satellite data for Aberdeen's own coordinates (57.14985, -2.09376), using the same 26.32p/kWh import value and £1,000 per kWp installed pricing as every Clearline estimate, with the full methodology, sourcing and assumptions set out on our help page.
Local detail for Aberdeen
Aberdeen's residential streets are dominated by granite tenement flats and terraces from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the housing form behind the city's Granite City name, with around 12,000 granite tenement flats still standing, many over a hundred years old. These are traditionally slated, pitched roofs shared across several flats in one block, and their age is a practical factor before adding solar, since a slate roof covering typically lasts around 50 years and the roof itself is jointly owned.
Aberdeen sits in SSEN territory, specifically its Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution licence. SSEN's own G99 Fast Track aims to reply within 10 working days for eligible small-scale schemes, well inside the 45 working day standard that applies across the industry, and most single home systems use the quicker 28-day G98 route instead. Aberdeen City Council is the planning authority, with eleven conservation areas running from Union Street in the centre to Footdee fishing village.
The council's Net Zero Aberdeen Routemap targets net zero by 2045, in line with Scotland's national date rather than an earlier city-specific one. The city's grid is being reinforced to support that shift: SSEN's transmission arm is replacing underground cable between the Redmoss and Clayhills substations, with South College Street closed for the final phase of works from September 2026 to keep the electricity supply secure.
Network operator (DNO): SSEN (Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks) · G99 application
Planning authority: Aberdeen City Council
Solar panel servicing and repair in Aberdeen
Faults, servicing and ageing inverters follow the same economics in Aberdeen as anywhere else, and the guides below price them plainly.
Common questions about solar in Aberdeen
What could a roof in Aberdeen generate?
PVGIS puts a roof in Aberdeen at 903 kWh per kWp a year, 2.47 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons.
What does a typical solar system cost in Aberdeen?
A typical 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in Aberdeen costs around £6,360 installed, at £1,000 per kWp before any battery.
Would a system in Aberdeen need a G99 application?
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 Aberdeen before anything is booked; our G98 vs G99 guide explains the difference in full.
What could I earn from exporting in Aberdeen?
On the 12p export scenario, that 12 panel system sends about 4,806 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £577. The tariff guide compares the export rates that could apply to your setup.
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.
Reading for Aberdeen homeowners
Independent, sourced and dated. The same ground we cover on your free call.
Best solar panels UK 2026: what the datasheets actually say
One pick per job, the specs behind each, and what moves payback more than the badge.
Read the guide →Inside a home battery: capacity, power and losses
Usable capacity, kW output, round trip losses and chemistry, in plain terms.
Read the guide →How time of use charging windows actually work
How a cheap overnight window is metered and billed, and what a battery does inside it.
Read the guide →Sizing a heat pump: what a proper survey covers
Sized by calculation, not by rule of thumb. What the survey covers, and what guessing costs.
Read the guide →Why tariff choice moves payback more than kit choice
Identical kit, five times the export income. The tariff decision worked through with August 2026 rates.
Read the guide →G98 or G99: which one applies, what the application involves, and how long it takes
The G98 line sits at 3.68kW per phase. Above it, your network operator has to say yes first.
Read the guide →How Aberdeen compares with its neighbours
Same satellite dataset, same assumptions, so the differences are real geography rather than modelling noise.
| Town | kWh per kWp | Peak sun hours | vs Aberdeen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen | 903 | 2.47 | — |
| Portlethen | 888 | 2.43 | -15 kWh |
| Stonehaven | 907 | 2.49 | +4 kWh |
| Inverurie | 883 | 2.42 | -20 kWh |
| Ellon | 919 | 2.52 | +16 kWh |
| Peterhead | 876 | 2.40 | -27 kWh |
| Montrose | 923 | 2.53 | +20 kWh |
PVGIS v5.2 for each town centroid, identical assumptions throughout. A few kWh either way is weather-year noise; a spread beyond about 30 kWh per kWp is real geography.
Also for Aberdeen: Solar panels in Aberdeen from OVO Solar & Battery