Metered, not modelled
Solar output in Kilmarnock & Ayrshire
618–731 kWh per kWp a year
the middle half of 83 real Kilmarnock & Ayrshire systems, measured over 2024
- Systems measured 83
- Median 677
- Best 10% of roofs 790
- Rank of 49 areas 49th
- Typical system size 3.7 kWp
A typical 4 kWp system here made roughly 2,470 to 2,920 units of electricity last year.
Not a forecast. 83 solar systems around Kilmarnock & Ayrshire were metered through 2024, and the middle half made 618 to 731 kWh for every kWp of panels.
Even here the best tenth made around 790 kWh per kWp, clearing the British median of 766. The average in Kilmarnock & Ayrshire is low; the ceiling is not.
Systems here are bigger than typical, a median of 3.7 kWp against 2.9 nationally.
That places Kilmarnock & Ayrshire 49th of 49, near the bottom of the areas we can measure — worth knowing rather than glossing over.
The local roof stock is unusually well pointed: 95% of these systems face south, south-east or south-west, against 86% nationally. Some of the figure above is orientation rather than weather.
What none of it tells you is what your own roof would do. These systems point in every direction and some have been up for fifteen years.
The spread behind that number
Every Kilmarnock & Ayrshire system, grouped by what it made, against Britain as a whole. The two shapes overlap heavily, which is the honest headline: your postcode nudges the result, your roof decides it.
Kilmarnock & Ayrshire: the middle half of 83 systems made 618–731 kWh per kWp.
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Output figures from openclimatefix/uk_pv (Hugging Face, CC-BY-4.0), collected by Sheffield Solar. The British median is 766 kWh per kWp. How we measure.
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