Stirlingshire
Solar panels in Polmont, priced before anyone visits.
About 5,530 kWh a year from 12 panels in Polmont, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Polmont, in numbers
From 19.8 kWh per kWp in December to 120.1 in May: a roof in Polmont makes 6.1 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 869 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 24.3 |
| February | 43.7 |
| March | 72.1 |
| April | 105 |
| May | 120 |
| June | 109 |
| July | 110 |
| August | 97.7 |
| September | 78.6 |
| October | 53.9 |
| November | 35.3 |
| December | 19.8 |
Source: PVGIS v5.2 (European Commission JRC), SARAH3 database, 1 kWp, 14% system loss, 35 degree pitch, due south, checked September 2026.
Our GB average is 925 kWh per kWp a year, the mean of the 85 county PVGIS estimates we publish; at 869, Polmont is 6% below it.
How Polmont compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Polmont. It is one of 9 Stirlingshire towns we track, and it ranks 4th of 9 for solar yield, a town of 20,960 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 869 kWh per kWp a year, 2.38 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £798 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £551 from export at 12p.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Polmont'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 Falkirk; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Polmont 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 Polmont at 55.99063, -3.7073 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 Polmont connection
Polmont is served by SP Energy Networks: the town's centre falls inside its South and Central Scotland licence area on NESO's boundary map.
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.
Larger systems go through G99 instead, applied for before installation. On timing: 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 Polmont
A heat pump in Polmont
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Polmont, a 12-panel system makes about 130 kWh in December and 150 kWh in January, a fraction of its 760 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 Polmont
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Polmont make about 760 kWh, against roughly 70 kWh a typical home uses in daylight that month on our calculator's typical-use settings, so there is surplus a smart charger can put into the car instead of exporting it.
If you rent, or own a flat, and have private off-street parking, the government chargepoint grant covers 75% of the cost, capped at £500 a socket, until 31 March 2027 (gov.uk, checked 28 September 2026). The calculator above prices 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 Polmont
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Polmont as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Polmont solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Polmont?
About 5,530 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Polmont: 869 kWh per kWp, or 2.38 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 760 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Polmont?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Polmont, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 5,530 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Polmont, and what does it need from me?
SP Energy Networks covers Polmont. 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 happens to the solar I do not use in Polmont?
Around £551 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 4,590 kWh a 12-panel system in Polmont exports with typical use. Rates vary by supplier and some need their own tariff; the export rates table is dated and sourced.
How much solar does Polmont get in December?
December is the low point: about 130 kWh from a 12-panel system in Polmont, on PVGIS data, rising to 760 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 780 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Polmont compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Polmont compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Polmont |
|---|---|---|
| Polmont | 869 | this town |
| Grangemouth | 870 | +1 kWh |
| Falkirk | 867 | −2 kWh |
| Linlithgow | 870 | +1 kWh |
| Bo'ness | 869 | level |
| Larbert and Stenhousemuir | 873 | +4 kWh |
| Bathgate | 850 | −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 Polmont: Solar panels in Polmont from OVO Solar & Battery
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Reading for Polmont homeowners
Sourced, dated and written by us. The same ground we cover on your free call.
DNO application timescales, network by network: from a G98 notification to a G99 approval
Fit and notify within 28 days, or wait ten working days to 45 for a yes. System size decides which.
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