Roxburghshire
Solar panels in Hawick, designed on a free call.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 5,460 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed around your roof on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Hawick roof makes, month by month
From 19.6 kWh per kWp in December to 116.6 in May: a roof in Hawick makes 5.9 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 858 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 24 |
| February | 42.7 |
| March | 73.8 |
| April | 104 |
| May | 117 |
| June | 106 |
| July | 112 |
| August | 96.6 |
| September | 77.8 |
| October | 51.7 |
| November | 34.4 |
| December | 19.6 |
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: Hawick makes 858 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Hawick is 7% below it.
How Hawick compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Hawick. It is the only Roxburghshire town we track so far, with county rankings to follow as its neighbours land, a town of 13,395 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 858 kWh per kWp a year, 2.35 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £789 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £542 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Hawick's own PVGIS figure; change the panels, the battery or the export rate and it reruns. The design call replaces every assumption with your roof and your bills.
Planning applications here go through Scottish Borders; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Hawick 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 Hawick at 55.42759, -2.78472 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
SP Energy Networks and your Hawick connection
SP Energy Networks owns and runs the local electricity network in Hawick, as part of its South and Central Scotland licence area.
What decides the paperwork is the inverter and battery output, not the number of panels. Up to 3.68kW per phase, a system follows G98: SP Energy Networks is notified within 28 days of commissioning and nothing has to be approved first.
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.
Adding a heat pump or an EV charger in Hawick
A heat pump in Hawick
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Hawick make about 120 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Hawick comes down to the tariff and the flow temperature rather than the roof.
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 Hawick
Hawick's May output, about 740 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.
The packages, priced before anyone visits
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Hawick
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Hawick as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Hawick solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Hawick?
About 5,460 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Hawick: 858 kWh per kWp, or 2.35 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 740 kWh.
Is solar more expensive in Hawick?
Prices on this site are the same everywhere: £1,000 per kWp installed, which puts a 12-panel system at £6,360 in Hawick, and a Duracell Dura16 installed with solar at £4,450 on top. The local part is generation, about 5,460 kWh a year here, which is what drives payback.
Which DNO covers Hawick, and what does it need from me?
SP Energy Networks covers Hawick. 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 Hawick?
On the 12p export scenario, a 12-panel system in Hawick sends about 4,520 kWh a year to the grid, worth around £542. The export rates table compares what each supplier pays.
How much solar does Hawick get in December?
December is the low point: about 120 kWh from a 12-panel system in Hawick, on PVGIS data, rising to 740 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 770 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Hawick 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 Hawick |
|---|---|---|
| Hawick | 858 | this town |
| Galashiels | 894 | +36 kWh |
| Peebles | 842 | −16 kWh |
| Gorebridge and Mayfield | 881 | +23 kWh |
| Penicuik | 846 | −12 kWh |
| Bonnyrigg | 896 | +38 kWh |
| Dalkeith | 897 | +39 kWh |
Same PVGIS v5.2 query for every town. Small differences are within year-to-year weather; more than about 30 kWh per kWp apart is geography.
Also for Hawick: Solar panels in Hawick from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Hawick
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
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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 worth it? The real 2026 numbers
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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 →What MCS certification actually is, and why your export payments depend on it
The badge that decides whether your solar earns export payments. It cannot be added later.
Read the guide →Get my free quote
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