Kincardineshire
Solar panels in Stonehaven, priced before anyone visits.
Twelve panels (6.36 kWp) here make about 5,770 kWh a year for £6,360 installed, designed around your roof on a free 30-minute video call.
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Sunlight in Stonehaven, in numbers
From 22.1 kWh per kWp in December to 128.8 in May: a roof in Stonehaven makes 5.8 times as much in its best month as in its darkest, and 907 kWh per kWp across the year.
Generation per kWp, month by month
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| Month | kWh/kWp |
|---|---|
| January | 27.2 |
| February | 44.8 |
| March | 78.8 |
| April | 107 |
| May | 129 |
| June | 116 |
| July | 116 |
| August | 103 |
| September | 77.6 |
| October | 51.6 |
| November | 34.2 |
| December | 22.1 |
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: Stonehaven makes 907 kWh per kWp a year, and the mean of our 85 county PVGIS estimates (our GB average) is 925, so Stonehaven is 2% below it.
How Stonehaven compares
Small towns rarely get published solar figures, so here are the numbers for Stonehaven. It is one of 2 Kincardineshire towns we track, and it ranks 1st of 2 for solar yield, a town of 9,962 people in the House of Commons Library settlement data. PVGIS gives its roofs 907 kWh per kWp a year, 2.49 peak sun hours a day averaged across the seasons, and the standard 12 panel model turns that into £827 of year one benefit, £247 of it from your own generation and £580 from export at 12p.
Treat these as calibration rather than a quote. The calculator below runs the same model, opened on Stonehaven'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.
Planning applications here go through Aberdeenshire; nationally, the House of Commons Library classes Stonehaven 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 Stonehaven at 56.96374, -2.20819 on PVGIS data, with imports valued at 26.32p/kWh and solar at £1,000 per kWp installed. Sources and assumptions: help page.
The network operator for Stonehaven
Stonehaven is served by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN): the town's centre falls inside its North 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: SSEN 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: SSEN says it can take up to 45 working days to issue a quotation for a generation connection above 3.68kW per phase and up to 50kW.
Sources: NESO DNO licence areas (3 May 2024); SSEN, micro-generation connections page, checked 25 September 2026. G98 vs G99, explained.
Heat pumps and EV charging in Stonehaven
A heat pump in Stonehaven
In December, the darkest month here, 12 panels in Stonehaven make about 140 kWh. That is when a heat pump runs hardest, so its running cost in Stonehaven 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 Stonehaven
Summer is where a car earns its place. In May, 12 panels in Stonehaven make about 820 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.
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 Stonehaven
The same sourced benchmarks apply in Stonehaven as everywhere we cover: honest repair pricing and what a service should include.
Solar in Stonehaven: your questions answered
How much electricity do solar panels make in Stonehaven?
About 5,770 kWh a year from 12 panels (6.36 kWp), on PVGIS satellite data for Stonehaven: 907 kWh per kWp, or 2.49 peak sun hours a day on average. May is the strongest month, at about 820 kWh.
What does a typical solar system cost in Stonehaven?
Solar is priced at £1,000 per kWp installed wherever you live, so a 12-panel, 6.36 kWp system costs £6,360 in Stonehaven, exactly as it would anywhere else, before any battery. Location changes what the system makes, not what it costs: here that is about 5,770 kWh a year. The final figure comes from your roof on the design call.
Which DNO covers Stonehaven, and what does it need from me?
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) covers Stonehaven. A home system of up to 3.68kW per phase is notified to SSEN within 28 days of commissioning under G98, and nothing waits on approval. Larger outputs need a G99 application before work starts. SSEN says it can take up to 45 working days to issue a quotation for a generation connection above 3.68kW per phase and up to 50kW.
What happens to the solar I do not use in Stonehaven?
Around £580 a year at 12p per kWh, for the roughly 4,832 kWh a 12-panel system in Stonehaven 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 Stonehaven get in December?
December is the low point: about 140 kWh from a 12-panel system in Stonehaven, on PVGIS data, rising to 820 kWh in May. From November to February the same system makes about 820 kWh in total, which is why a battery charged off-peak does more of the work in winter.
How Stonehaven 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 Stonehaven |
|---|---|---|
| Stonehaven | 907 | this town |
| Portlethen | 888 | −19 kWh |
| Aberdeen | 903 | −4 kWh |
| Montrose | 923 | +16 kWh |
| Inverurie | 883 | −24 kWh |
| Ellon | 919 | +12 kWh |
| Arbroath | 940 | +33 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 Stonehaven: Solar panels in Stonehaven from OVO Solar & Battery
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