West Lothian
Solar panels in Queensferry, priced before anyone visits.
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 Queensferry, in numbers
From 21.6 kWh per kWp in December to 122.1 in May: a roof in Queensferry 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 | 26.2 |
| February | 45.3 |
| March | 74.8 |
| April | 106 |
| May | 122 |
| June | 112 |
| July | 113 |
| August | 99.7 |
| September | 81.9 |
| October | 56.4 |
| November | 37.4 |
| December | 21.6 |
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: Queensferry makes 896 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Queensferry is 3% below it.
How Queensferry compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Queensferry. It is one of 6 West Lothian towns we track, and it ranks 1st of 6 for solar yield, a town of 10,138 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.
These are starting numbers, not a quote. The calculator below opens on Queensferry'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 City of Edinburgh; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Queensferry 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 Queensferry (55.98655, -3.40524), a 26.32p/kWh import price and £1,000 per kWp installed; see the help page for the full method.
The network operator for Queensferry
Queensferry 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 Queensferry
A heat pump in Queensferry
Heating demand peaks when solar is weakest. In Queensferry, 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 Queensferry
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Queensferry make about 780 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 Queensferry
If a system in Queensferry is underperforming, start with the guides below: repair benchmarks, service scope, and the inverter question.
Queensferry solar questions
How much energy would 12 solar panels make in Queensferry?
Queensferry averages 2.45 peak sun hours a day, which PVGIS turns into 896 kWh per kWp a year. On a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp roof that is about 5,700 kWh, 71% of it between April and September.
What does a typical solar system cost in Queensferry?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Queensferry, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 5,700 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Who is the network operator in Queensferry, and do I need a G99 application?
The operator is SP Energy Networks. Most home systems use the G98 route, a notification within 28 days of switch-on for up to 3.68kW per phase, so nothing waits on the network. Above that, G99 applies and has to be granted 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. Your design call checks which route yours needs.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Queensferry?
Around £571 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 4,762 kWh a 12-panel system in Queensferry exports with typical use. Rates vary by supplier and some need their own tariff; the export rates table is dated and sourced.
How does solar perform in Queensferry in the winter months?
December is the weakest month in Queensferry: about 140 kWh from 12 panels, against 780 kWh in May. The panels still generate on bright winter days; they just cover a smaller share of what the house uses.
How Queensferry compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Queensferry compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Queensferry |
|---|---|---|
| Queensferry | 896 | this town |
| Rosyth | 895 | −1 kWh |
| Dalgety Bay | 896 | level |
| Broxburn | 848 | −48 kWh |
| Dunfermline | 892 | −4 kWh |
| Linlithgow | 870 | −26 kWh |
| Bo'ness | 869 | −27 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 Queensferry: Solar panels in Queensferry from OVO Solar & Battery
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