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How a battery is fitted depends on the building, whether a sandstone tenement in Glasgow, a granite terrace in Aberdeen, an off-gas farmhouse or an island home.
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We install home batteries across Scotland, from sandstone tenements in Glasgow and Edinburgh to harled semis, granite terraces in Aberdeen, off-gas farmhouses and island homes. Each property type changes where the battery goes, how cables are routed and whether solar is practical. A survey confirms what suits your home before you receive a quote.
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Scotland's housing stock is unusually varied, and the right battery set-up for a Glasgow tenement flat is very different from the right one for a farmhouse in Perthshire. Rather than publish headline numbers that would not apply to your home, this page explains the property types we install in and what changes from one to the next. We install through MCS-certified partners.
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen
Flats in traditional tenements rarely have roof space of their own, so batteries here usually run on pure grid arbitrage: charge overnight, cover the evening. The survey focuses on where the meter sits, often in the close or a hall cupboard, and whether the battery can go inside the flat with a safe cable route. Factor or neighbour consent may be needed for any work in common areas.
Fife, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, the Lothians
Roughcast or harled semi-detached houses and terraces are some of the most straightforward homes to fit. There is usually space in a hallway, utility room or on a gable wall, and many have a south, east or west-facing roof that suits a modest solar array alongside the battery.
Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, the Borders, Dumfries and Galloway
Larger rural homes often have outbuildings, garages or plant rooms that make siting easy. Many are off the gas grid and heated by oil, LPG or electric storage heaters, so evening electricity use can be higher and a larger battery, sometimes with solar, may make sense.
Highlands, Moray, Argyll, Western and Northern Isles
Homes in the far north and on the islands face strong winds, salt air and long winter nights. Equipment placement and enclosures are chosen with exposure in mind. Grid connections here are managed by SSEN, and some areas have tighter network limits, which we check before design.
Three things drive how a battery performs. The first is your tariff: a half-hourly tariff such as Octopus Agile, or an overnight tariff such as Intelligent Octopus Go, creates the gap between cheap and expensive hours the battery uses. The second is your evening usage: the more electricity you use between late afternoon and bedtime, the more of the battery's stored energy goes to replacing expensive grid power. The third is the property: where the battery can sit, whether solar is possible, and which network operator you connect to — SP Energy Networks in the central belt and south, SSEN in the north and on the islands.
Weather plays a part too. Scottish solar output is lower in mid-winter and strong from late spring to early autumn, so in summer a battery often stores spare solar, while in winter it relies more on cheap overnight grid power. Typical domestic systems sit between roughly 5 and 13.5kWh of storage. A no-obligation survey gives figures for your home, based on your own bills.
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