Midlothian
Solar panels in Penicuik, sized to your roof.
A 12-panel roof in Penicuik makes about 5,380 kWh a year and costs £6,360 installed; a free 30-minute video call sizes it to yours.
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Penicuik's solar year
PVGIS puts Penicuik at 846 kWh per kWp a year, 1% above our Midlothian county estimate. 71% of it arrives between April and September, peaking in May.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 24.2 |
| February | 41.6 |
| March | 70.7 |
| April | 102 |
| May | 117 |
| June | 106 |
| July | 108 |
| August | 95.4 |
| September | 76.2 |
| October | 51 |
| November | 34.7 |
| December | 19 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
For scale: 846 kWh per kWp in Penicuik against 925, our GB average (the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates), which puts Penicuik 9% below it.
How Penicuik compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Penicuik. It is one of 7 Midlothian towns we track, and it ranks 6th of 7 for solar yield, a town of 16,219 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 846 kWh per kWp a year, 2.32 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £780 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £533 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Penicuik'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.
Midlothian is the planning authority covering Penicuik, which the House of Commons Library classes 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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The figures use PVGIS for the centre of Penicuik (55.83187, -3.22395), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
Who runs the grid in Penicuik
The distribution network operator (DNO) for Penicuik is SP Energy Networks, which runs the South and Central Scotland licence area.
For a typical home the paperwork is light: a system of up to 3.68kW per phase goes through G98, which means SP Energy Networks is notified within 28 days of switch-on rather than asked beforehand.
Anything bigger is a G99 case and is applied for first. 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 Penicuik
A heat pump in Penicuik
A heat pump does most of its work from November to February. Over those four months, 12 panels in Penicuik make about 760 kWh, against 2,710 kWh from May to August, so winter heating runs mostly on grid electricity and the tariff matters more than the roof.
Scottish homes apply through Home Energy Scotland rather than the Boiler Upgrade Scheme: up to £7,500 in grant for a heat pump, up to £7,500 more as an optional interest-free loan, and a £1,500 uplift for rural and island homes (checked 28 September 2026).
Charging an EV in Penicuik
A 12-panel roof in Penicuik makes about 750 kWh in May. A typical home uses around 70 kWh of that in daylight (the calculator's typical-use settings), which leaves most of the month's output for an EV or for export.
The calculator above includes a 7.4kW smart charger from £1,100 installed. Renters and flat owners with off-street parking can claim 75% of a chargepoint's cost, up to £500 per socket, until 31 March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026).
What the named kit costs, installed
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Penicuik
Faults, servicing and ageing inverters follow the same economics in Penicuik as anywhere else, and the guides below price them plainly.
Solar in Penicuik: your questions answered
What does a solar panel system produce in Penicuik?
Each kWp of panels in Penicuik makes 846 kWh a year on PVGIS figures, so a typical 12-panel system produces around 5,380 kWh, from about 120 kWh in December up to 750 kWh in May.
How much are solar panels in Penicuik?
The price does not move by postcode. At £1,000 per kWp installed, 12 panels (6.36 kWp) come to £6,360 in Penicuik before a battery. What Penicuik changes is the return, about 5,380 kWh a year from that system, and your design call prices your actual roof.
Would a system in Penicuik need approval from the network operator?
Penicuik is on SP Energy Networks' network (South and Central Scotland licence area). Systems up to 3.68kW per phase of inverter output follow G98: SP Energy Networks is notified within 28 days of commissioning, with no approval needed first. Anything larger needs a G99 application before installation. 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. Our G98 vs G99 guide explains both routes.
How much can I earn from exporting solar in Penicuik?
With typical use and no battery, a 12-panel system in Penicuik exports about 4,444 kWh a year. At 12p per kWh that is roughly £533; a supplier paying more, or a battery that keeps more for the evening, changes the figure. See the export rates table.
Is solar worth it in Penicuik in winter?
It works, but the year is lopsided. 71% of a Penicuik roof's output lands between April and September; the four months from November to February give about 760 kWh on a 12-panel system. Payback is worked out on the whole year, not the winter.
How Penicuik 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 Penicuik |
|---|---|---|
| Penicuik | 846 | this town |
| Bonnyrigg | 896 | +50 kWh |
| Dalkeith | 897 | +51 kWh |
| Gorebridge and Mayfield | 881 | +35 kWh |
| Edinburgh | 915 | +69 kWh |
| Musselburgh | 900 | +54 kWh |
| Broxburn | 848 | +2 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.
Also for Penicuik: Solar panels in Penicuik from OVO Solar & Battery
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Further reading for Penicuik
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
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The one component you should expect to replace, and the decision tree when it goes.
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Read the guide →How solar aware EV charging actually works
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Read the guide →Are air source heat pumps any good? What owners actually report
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Read the guide →What the Smart Export Guarantee actually is
The scheme obliges suppliers to pay above zero, and leaves the rate to them.
Read the guide →How to check an MCS certificate is genuine, before the deposit leaves your account
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