Fife
Solar panels in Dalgety Bay, designed on a free call.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 5,700 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed around your roof on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Dalgety Bay, in numbers
From 21.8 kWh per kWp in December to 123.4 in May: a roof in Dalgety Bay makes 5.7 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 896 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
Show the monthly figures
| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 26.6 |
| February | 45.6 |
| March | 76.1 |
| April | 106 |
| May | 123 |
| June | 111 |
| July | 112 |
| August | 99.9 |
| September | 81 |
| October | 55.4 |
| November | 36.9 |
| December | 21.8 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
Against Great Britain as a whole: Dalgety Bay makes 896 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Dalgety Bay is 3% below it.
How Dalgety Bay compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Dalgety Bay. It is one of 10 Fife towns we track, and it ranks 5th of 10 for solar yield, a town of 9,405 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 896 kWh per kWp a year, 2.45 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £818 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £571 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Dalgety Bay's own yield, and 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.
Planning applications here go through Fife; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Dalgety Bay as a small town.
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.
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Modelled for Dalgety Bay at 56.03836, -3.35727 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
The network operator for Dalgety Bay
On NESO's licence-area map, Dalgety Bay is in South and Central Scotland, which SP Energy Networks operates. That makes SP Energy Networks the network operator for any system fitted here.
Below 3.68kW per phase of inverter and battery output, the G98 route applies: the installation is notified to SP Energy Networks within 28 days of commissioning, with no prior approval.
Above that, G99 means applying before the work is booked. Ofgem's guaranteed standard for a low voltage generation connection quotation is 45 working days, with £80 paid for each working day late, and it binds SP Energy Networks as it does every network operator.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); Ofgem, Distributed Generation Standards Direction guidance, checked 27 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Dalgety Bay
A heat pump in Dalgety Bay
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Dalgety Bay, a 12-panel system makes about 140 kWh in December and 170 kWh in January, a fraction of its 780 kWh in May, which is why a heat pump here is costed on its tariff first.
In Scotland, Home Energy Scotland offers a grant of up to £7,500 towards a heat pump, an optional interest-free loan of up to £7,500 on top, and £1,500 more for rural and island homes (Home Energy Scotland, checked 28 September 2026).
Charging an EV in Dalgety Bay
Dalgety Bay's May output, about 780 kWh from 12 panels, is several times the 70 kWh or so a typical home uses in daylight that month on our calculator's settings. Daytime charging turns that surplus into miles.
Renters and flat owners with private off-street parking can get 75% off a chargepoint and its installation, up to £500 per socket, until 31 March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026). The calculator above adds a 7.4kW smart charger from £1,100 installed.
Installed prices, the same in every town
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Dalgety Bay
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Dalgety Bay as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Dalgety Bay solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Dalgety Bay?
About 5,700 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Dalgety Bay: 896 kWh per kWp, or 2.45 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 780 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Dalgety Bay?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Dalgety Bay, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 5,700 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Dalgety Bay, and what does it need from me?
SP Energy Networks covers Dalgety Bay. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to SP Energy Networks within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. Ofgem's guaranteed standard for a low voltage generation connection quotation is 45 working days, with £80 paid for each working day late, and it binds SP Energy Networks as it does every network operator.
What could I earn from exporting in Dalgety Bay?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Dalgety Bay sends about 4,762 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £571. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Dalgety Bay get in December?
December is the low point: about 140 kWh from a 12-panel system in Dalgety Bay, on PVGIS data, rising to 780 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 830 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Dalgety Bay compares with its neighbours
Same satellite dataset, same assumptions, so the differences are real geography rather than modelling noise.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Dalgety Bay |
|---|---|---|
| Dalgety Bay | 896 | this town |
| Rosyth | 895 | −1 kWh |
| Queensferry | 896 | level |
| Dunfermline | 892 | −4 kWh |
| Cowdenbeath | 899 | +3 kWh |
| Broxburn | 848 | −48 kWh |
| Edinburgh | 915 | +19 kWh |
Each row is a PVGIS v5.2 run at that town's centre with the same settings. Treat gaps of a few kWh as noise and gaps over about 30 kWh per kWp as real differences in sunshine.
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Further reading for Dalgety Bay
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
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