Lanarkshire
Solar panels in Shotts, priced before anyone visits.
About 5,240 kWh a year from 12 panels in Shotts, £6,360 installed, with your system designed on a free 30-minute video call.
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How much a Shotts roof makes, month by month
From 17.6 kWh per kWp in December to 116.5 in May: a roof in Shotts makes 6.6 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 824 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 22.9 |
| February | 39.8 |
| March | 67.8 |
| April | 101 |
| May | 117 |
| June | 105 |
| July | 105 |
| August | 92.2 |
| September | 74 |
| October | 50.1 |
| November | 32.6 |
| December | 17.6 |
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 824, Shotts is 11% below it.
How Shotts compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Shotts. It is one of 18 Lanarkshire towns we track, and it ranks 17th of 18 for solar yield, a town of 8,086 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 824 kWh per kWp a year, 2.26 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £763 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £516 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Shotts' 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.
Planning applications here go through North Lanarkshire; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Shotts 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 Shotts at 55.81912, -3.79971 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 Shotts connection
Shotts sits in SP Energy Networks' South and Central Scotland licence area, so SP Energy Networks is the network operator (DNO) any solar panels or battery here are registered with.
G98 is the simple route. If the inverter, plus any battery, stays at or under 3.68kW per phase, SP Energy Networks only has to be told within 28 days after the system is commissioned.
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.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Shotts
A heat pump in Shotts
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Shotts make about 110 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Shotts 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 Shotts
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Shotts make about 740 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.
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.
Installed prices, the same in every town
Every system is designed around your roof on the free call before anything is fitted.
Solar panel servicing and repair in Shotts
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Shotts as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Shotts solar questions
How much electricity do solar panels make in Shotts?
About 5,240 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Shotts: 824 kWh per kWp, or 2.26 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 740 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Shotts?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Shotts, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 5,240 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Shotts, and what does it need from me?
SP Energy Networks covers Shotts. 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 Shotts?
Around £516 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 4,304 kWh a 12-panel system in Shotts 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 Shotts get in December?
December is the low point: about 110 kWh from a 12-panel system in Shotts, on PVGIS data, rising to 740 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 720 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Shotts compares with its neighbours
How the towns nearest Shotts compare on the same PVGIS settings, closest first.
| Town | kWh per kWp a year | vs Shotts |
|---|---|---|
| Shotts | 824 | this town |
| Whitburn | 831 | +7 kWh |
| Wishaw | 861 | +37 kWh |
| Carluke | 846 | +22 kWh |
| Airdrie | 839 | +15 kWh |
| Motherwell | 870 | +46 kWh |
| Bathgate | 850 | +26 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 Shotts: Solar panels in Shotts from OVO Solar & Battery
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