Scotland Regional Winner, Heating Installer Awards 2026Highly Commended, Scottish Energy Efficiency Awards 2025
🎉 Scotland Regional Winner at the Heating Installer Awards 2026
Scotland Regional Winner, Heating Installer Awards 2026Highly Commended, Scottish Energy Efficiency Awards 2025
🎉 Scotland Regional Winner at the Heating Installer Awards 2026
Solar panel installation in Comely Bank built around what a tenement flat’s roof can actually hold, not what a standard package assumes. High-efficiency panels, honest panel counts, and battery sizing that matches real usage.
The monthly electricity bill dropped from £600 to £24.79, around £6,900 saved a year, after the heat pump was also re-commissioned with the correct flow temperature.
“We’ve had very attentive customer service from Sean, and are very happy with the outcome of the installation of solar panels & batteries.”
Christine C., Gartcosh · Google review
Panels and batteries carry 0% VAT until 31 March 2027, and the Smart Export Guarantee pays you for what you send back. We size the array to your own usage first, so the savings come from the design, not a subsidy.
How much of a shared roof is yours decides every solar design in Comely Bank, on Edinburgh’s north side. Sir James Steel built the four-storey tenements toward Queensferry Road from 1894, two or three flats per landing, plus the 1817 Georgian terrace on Comely Bank Road where Carlyle once lived.
• Stockbridge Colonies contrast: genuine Colonies sit between Glenogle Road and the Water of Leith, small roofs built for one household each.
• Usable roof share: a top-floor flat gets around 20-25 sqm of usable slope after chimney stacks and party walls, room for 8-10 panels.
• Efficiency: a higher-output panel matches 9-10 standard panels’ generation with just 6-7, leaving no roof to spare.
• Ownership decides too: where roof access sits in title deeds, check solar panels for period and listed homes in Scotland first.
• Bigger roof, bigger array: villas towards Craigleith follow the same logic in reverse, more roof means a bigger array and battery. Our solar panel installation in Edinburgh page covers the surrounding area. We also install solar panels in neighbouring Stockbridge.
On a tenement roof your share is small, so each panel has to earn its place. We measure your usable slope at the survey and fit the fewest panels that cover your use.
Higher-output panels need less slope per kilowatt, leaving room round chimney stacks and party walls.
We check where roof access sits in your title deeds before we draw a layout.
A compact array for a top-floor flat goes up in a single day, with scaffold and access arranged by us.
A small array fills a compact battery by mid-afternoon, which then carries the flat through the evening.
Scroll through the year: real generation from a 10.5 kWp array on a Scottish roof, winter trough included.
Panels do not care how warm it is, only how bright. So the only honest answer is a year of output.
December makes a tenth of June. We plot it, because you will notice it on your first winter bill.
From March to September the array makes more than a typical home uses. The spare either exports for income or charges a battery.
Northern summers pay the winter back: June alone can cover two months of an average home’s use.
Around 9,000 kWh a year from one Scottish roof. Not a lab figure, a metered one.
Day one · scaffold up
Panels going on
Clamped, not glued
The finished array
Christine’s family home in Gartcosh, Glasgow was running up electricity bills of around £600 some months, even though it already had an air source heat pump: it had never been set up correctly, the kind of fault our heat pump servicing visits catch.
After a detailed survey of the family’s energy use, we installed a 10.5 kWp black bifacial solar PV array with 20.8 kWh of battery storage, and fully optimised the existing heat pump.
The monthly bill dropped to £24.79, an annual saving of around £6,900. Most months, 100% of the family’s daily electricity comes from solar and stored battery power. The order of operations is identical on a Comely Bank roof: usage first, hardware second.
“Excellent service before & after installation. We are also grateful for his knowledge and input into adjusting our heat pump and currently our bills are massively reduced.” Christine C, Gartcosh, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Illustration of a typical installation
Illustration of a typical installation
Your engineer visits your Comely Bank property, measures the actual usable roof slope, checks access and any shading from chimney stacks or neighbouring blocks, and reviews your real electricity usage. You get a clear quote showing expected generation, self-consumption, savings, and payback.
Most Comely Bank solar installations take one day for a compact flat array, or up to two days for a larger villa system with battery. We use roof-safe fixings suited to slate or tile, protect stairwells and close space throughout, then test, commission and register to MCS before we leave.
We set up your monitoring app, configure the battery for self-consumption, and align you to an export tariff for your surplus. On a compact Comely Bank flat array the battery settings matter more than panel count, so we tune the charge and discharge windows to your evening usage.
Solar panel cost in Comely Bank tracks usable roof area more closely than anything else. Solar and battery installations currently carry 0% VAT until 31 March 2027, and Home Energy Scotland’s interest-free loan no longer covers solar PV, so it’s a cash purchase for owner-occupiers.
Yes, though the roof decides more here than the weather. Comely Bank gets enough sunlight for solar to be worth it, and a typical system here generates around 850 kWh per kWp installed each year. The limiting factor on most tenement flats is roof share, so panel and array size get worked out at survey, not assumed.
A compact panel-only system sized to a tenement flat’s roof share in Comely Bank typically starts around £8,000, while a larger villa array near Craigleith can run up to £18,000. Cost depends on array size, panel type and battery. In Comely Bank, solar and battery currently carry 0% VAT until 31 March 2027. Your engineer confirms your cost at survey.
There are no solar panel grants in Comely Bank, or anywhere else in Scotland, and Home Energy Scotland’s interest-free loan no longer covers solar PV, so it’s a cash purchase for owner-occupiers. The main saving is the 0% VAT rate until 31 March 2027, plus the electricity savings the system delivers.
Yes, and for most Comely Bank flats we recommend it. A battery stores daytime solar for use in the evening peak instead of exporting it cheaply, which pushes self-consumption from around 35-40% up past 70-80%. On a smaller array that boost matters more, with less power to export. We fit Fox ESS, Ecoflow PowerOcean and SigEnergy SigenStor storage sized to your household’s usage.
Solar panel savings in Comely Bank depend on system size and usage, but a well-designed solar and battery system typically covers 70-80% of annual electricity needs. Combined with Smart Export Guarantee income of 12p per kWh on surplus, most systems pay back in 8 to 12 years, then run effectively for free for the rest of their 25-year-plus life.
Most Comely Bank solar installations are completed within a single day for a compact flat-sized array, or up to two days for a larger villa system with battery included. This covers panel mounting, inverter and battery installation, electrical connection, testing, and MCS commissioning.
Solar panels for homes in Comely Bank come down to four things: roof direction, pitch, available area, and shading from chimney stacks or neighbouring blocks. On Comely Bank’s tenement flats, roof access and ownership matter as much as the roof itself, so your engineer confirms both at the engineer-led survey. On the larger villas towards Craigleith, the same checks apply, with more room.
Yes. Every Comely Bank installation includes a full engineer-led survey, system design, installation, MCS registration, Smart Export Guarantee setup, and ongoing aftercare with monitoring. You deal with your installer directly throughout, not a call-centre or a subcontractor.
A few details is all it takes. We reply within one working day, with a real engineer, not a call centre.
We’ll assess your roof, explain your options, and leave you to decide.
