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
MCS-certified solar panels in Currie, laid out face by face on the roof you have, from a bungalow to a stone house near the Kirk. Your quote shows generation, export income and payback before you decide.
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.
“I don’t think solar panels work well in our cloudy weather.”
“Can I really get my money back with solar?”
“Our bungalow roof looks small. Will enough panels fit on it?”
Panels generate under cloud, and payback on solar panels in Currie rests on roof area, pitch, shade and when you use power. Your quote lays out generation, self-use, export income and payback for your own roof, with 0% VAT until 31 March 2027.
Where a roof splits into smaller faces, we lay the panels out face by face and can split them east and west, as our roof direction guide shows.
Currie grew from a village on the Water of Leith into late-1950s estates east of Curriehill Road. Around the Kirk, the conservation area keeps panels off roof slopes facing a road.
If the gas boiler is near its end, our heat pump installations in Currie can share one survey with the panels.
We measure each roof face, then size the array and battery from your bills. Whatever the house cannot use earns Smart Export Guarantee income once we register the system with MCS.
Small or split roof faces still take panels when the layout runs face by face.
We programme the battery around your tariff and the hours the house is in use.
Planning an EV charger or a heat pump? The panel count and battery are sized for it from the start.
A few months in, we compare what the system saves with what the design promised.
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
£24.79 a Month: Christine’s Solar, Battery and Heat Pump Fix in Gartcosh. Near Glasgow, Christine’s family home in Gartcosh had an air source heat pump nobody had set up properly, and some months the electricity bill came to around £600.
We fitted a 10.5 kWp black bifacial solar array and 20.8 kWh of battery storage, then re-set the heat pump’s flow temperatures, balancing and controls. The bill dropped to £24.79 a month, about £6,900 a year less.
A Currie household planning a heat pump gets the battery and array sized for the heating load as well as the house.
“Excellent service before and 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
Get the same approach we bring to solar panel installation across Scotland.
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Illustration of a typical installation
We measure each roof face, note the shading from trees and neighbouring houses, check the consumer unit and where a battery and inverter can go, then match the design to your electricity bills.
For a house in the conservation area around Currie Kirk, the survey includes the planning check. Your quote then sets out the generation, export and payback figures for each roof face.
A Currie solar installation takes one to two days on site, with array size and scaffolding setting the pace. The team mounts the panels, connects the inverter and battery, tests the system and registers it with MCS before leaving.
We set up the monitoring app with you, programme the battery around your tariff and the hours you are home, and help you register for an export tariff. A few months on, we read your monitoring data and confirm the savings are on track.
Currie prices turn on how many roof faces carry panels, battery size, kit choice and scaffold access.
• From around £8,000 for panels alone.
• Around £11,000 for panels plus a battery, a typical Currie quote.
• Up to around £19,000 with a larger array and a big battery.
• 0% VAT on panels and batteries until 31 March 2027, already in these figures.
HES has no solar PV grant and its panel and battery loan is shut to new applicants; our solar panel grants in Scotland guide follows what is open.
Where a Currie system earns its money:
• Power you use as it is generated avoids the full import price.
• Exported power earns 12p a unit on Outgoing Octopus (September 2026) under the Smart Export Guarantee.
• A battery raises the solar you use yourself from 35-40% to 70-80%.
• Payback takes 8 to 12 years; the panels then generate for 25 years or more.
Export tariffs sit side by side in our Smart Export Guarantee guide for Scotland.
Yes. Panels generate under cloud, with most of the year’s output from spring to autumn. On a Currie survey the shade that matters comes from trees and neighbouring houses, and a battery carries more of the daytime output into the evening, so the array covers a larger share of your annual use.
Expect around £8,000 for panels alone in Currie, around £11,000 for a typical solar and battery system and up to around £19,000 for a large array with a big battery. Every figure carries 0% VAT until 31 March 2027, and the survey quote itemises each part.
Not for solar PV. Home Energy Scotland has no solar grant, and its solar PV and battery loan has closed to new applicants, so a Currie homeowner saves through 0% VAT and export income instead.
Yes, and for a Currie household that is out through the middle of the day we recommend it. Solar battery storage holds daytime generation for the evening and can charge from a cheap overnight tariff in winter, lifting the share of solar you use yourself from around 35 to 40% to 70 to 80%.
It depends on array size, battery capacity and how much of the day the house is occupied. A well-designed solar and battery system lets you use 70 to 80% of what your panels generate, and with export paid at 12p a unit on Outgoing Octopus a typical system pays back in 8 to 12 years.
One to two days on site for a typical Currie home, after a survey visit beforehand. Extra time comes from scaffolding, a bigger array or a battery mounted in a garage far from the consumer unit, and the survey tells you in advance.
In many cases, yes. A bungalow roof can split into smaller faces, and we fit panels to the ones facing south, east or west. A house in the conservation area keeps them off the road-facing slopes, and a listed one needs consent, as our guide to solar panels for period and listed homes explains.
Yes, at lower output. A Currie roof makes a small share of its June output in December, so in winter the battery charging on a cheap overnight rate counts as much as the panels. Your quote models both seasons.
Yes. We install solar panels across Currie and neighbouring Balerno. Towards the city, our solar work in Colinton runs from the same team with the same survey and aftercare.
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.
