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Independent guidance on solar and battery storage for Edinburgh homes in Midlothian: 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 Edinburgh at 915 kWh per kWp a year, 9% above our Midlothian county estimate.
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What a roof in Edinburgh can generate
Real satellite data for Edinburgh, real installed pricing, and the same honest model we run for every place we cover.
How Edinburgh compares
Edinburgh is one of 7 Midlothian towns we track, and it ranks 1st of 7 for solar yield. The House of Commons Library settlement classification puts it in the core city class, with a population of 469,405, which makes it one of the largest places we publish figures for. Scale changes nothing about the physics: PVGIS gives a roof here 915 kWh per kWp a year, 2.51 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and on the 12p scenario about £247 of the year one benefit comes from solar you use yourself, with export income adding £586.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, defaulted to Edinburgh's own yield, and at Edinburgh's 915 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.
City of Edinburgh is the planning authority covering Edinburgh, which the House of Commons Library classes as a core 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.
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A 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in Edinburgh generates around 5,819 kWh a year, worth around £832 in year one on the 12p export scenario.
Generation is modelled from PVGIS satellite data for Edinburgh's own coordinates (55.95334, -3.18911), 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 Edinburgh
Edinburgh has around 234,000 homes, roughly a third of them flats, ranging from the Georgian and Victorian tenements inside the World Heritage core to modern suburban housing on the city's edge. Because so much of the centre is shared tenement stock, a roof there is often owned jointly by several flats, and where a slope faces a principal or street-facing elevation inside a conservation area, it comes under closer planning scrutiny than a standard suburban roof.
Edinburgh sits in SP Energy Networks territory. SP Energy Networks does not publish its own day count for a standard low voltage generation quotation, so the 45 working day standard that applies across the industry is the figure to plan against, with most single home systems using the quicker 28-day G98 route instead. The City of Edinburgh Council is the planning authority, and its 50 conservation areas include the Old and New Towns, a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering nearly 4,500 individual buildings.
The council has set a target for Edinburgh to become a net zero city by 2030, fifteen years ahead of Scotland's own national 2045 date, one of the more ambitious commitments among the UK's larger cities. Edinburgh Community Solar Co-operative already owns and runs 30 installations across the city, mostly on council schools, community centres and leisure facilities, with a combined 2.1MW generating around 1.1GWh of electricity a year.
Network operator (DNO): SP Energy Networks · G99 application
Planning authority: City of Edinburgh Council
Solar panel servicing and repair in Edinburgh
Faults, servicing and ageing inverters follow the same economics in Edinburgh as anywhere else, and the guides below price them plainly.
Common questions about solar in Edinburgh
What could a roof in Edinburgh generate?
PVGIS puts a roof in Edinburgh at 915 kWh per kWp a year, 2.51 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons.
What does a typical solar system cost in Edinburgh?
A typical 12 panel, 6.36 kWp system in Edinburgh costs around £6,360 installed, at £1,000 per kWp before any battery.
Would a system in Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh before anything is booked; our G98 vs G99 guide explains the difference in full.
What could I earn from exporting in Edinburgh?
On the 12p export scenario, that 12 panel system sends about 4,883 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £586. The tariff guide compares the export rates that could apply to your setup.
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Reading for Edinburgh homeowners
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Read the guide →How Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh | 915 | 2.51 | — |
| Musselburgh | 900 | 2.47 | -15 kWh |
| Dalkeith | 897 | 2.46 | -18 kWh |
| Bonnyrigg | 896 | 2.45 | -19 kWh |
| Prestonpans | 924 | 2.53 | +9 kWh |
| Penicuik | 846 | 2.32 | -69 kWh |
| Queensferry | 896 | 2.45 | -19 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 Edinburgh: Solar panels in Edinburgh from OVO Solar & Battery