32 COUNCIL AREAS. ONE SCOTLAND.

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Official solar snapshotEnd of 2025

Solar PV sites across 32 areas210,629

Change in recorded sites since 2024+26,115

Scottish solar sites per 1,000 households81.9

Area-wide deployment, including homes, businesses and larger sites. This is not a score for council-owned installations or council policy. Solar figures are a dated snapshot, not a live count.

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Leading by this measureStirling207.7 sites per 1,000 households

Sites divided by DESNZ’s estimated household count. This adjusts for area size; it is not the percentage of homes with solar. Equal values share a rank.

Rank	Solar sites	Per 1,000 households	2024–25 growth	Capacity (MW)
1	8,580	207.7	9.0%	29.54
2	18,795	159.0	10.8%	90.45
3	7,317	141.9	15.8%	21.15
4	5,721	131.8	12.0%	15.92
5	7,152	126.8	12.5%	33.35
6	9,130	126.6	13.4%	52.74
7	8,959	125.6	23.6%	40.59
8	13,409	116.8	23.2%	50.66
9	7,492	114.3	19.2%	44.10
10	4,942	110.6	19.3%	21.85
11	6,026	109.0	11.4%	62.23
12	8,601	104.4	11.9%	25.56
13	4,209	98.4	37.5%	18.99
14	14,061	91.4	19.9%	37.00
15	12,610	82.9	12.6%	36.79
16	13,761	79.5	10.6%	64.38
17	1,889	77.2	8.3%	11.51
18	6,733	76.0	16.4%	18.58
19	4,111	72.8	9.0%	13.51
20	2,710	66.5	8.4%	7.21
21	3,368	63.1	12.3%	12.10
22	4,025	54.8	10.2%	14.62
23	661	51.1	24.7%	2.75
24	558	50.9	10.9%	2.33
25	2,040	47.2	6.4%	6.82
26	3,365	47.0	16.6%	11.64
27	1,683	44.6	7.3%	4.96
28	10,985	44.4	14.3%	34.35
29	2,071	44.1	12.6%	13.20
30	4,580	40.5	11.9%	17.37
31	409	37.8	27.8%	2.02
32	10,676	35.6	6.4%	28.14

Showing 32 of 32 areas. Rankings always use the full Scottish table.

Sources, dates & how the league works

Solar: DESNZ Regional Renewable Statistics

Source release: 29 September 2026. Data: end of 2025; trend: 2020–25. Checked for this SunBru snapshot on 6 October 2026. Extracted from “LA - Sites” and “LA - Capacity” worksheets, joining by official council code. All 32 Scottish areas are included. The Scottish summary shown here sums these 32 rows.

Density = solar sites ÷ estimated households × 1,000. Household estimates are taken as supplied in the DESNZ workbook, whose notes reference ONS household estimates. They are a comparison denominator, not a count of homes fitted with panels. Growth = (2025 sites − 2024 sites) ÷ 2024 sites × 100. Changes can include revisions, so they are not a count of installations completed during the year.

Homes, businesses and larger solar sites are included. Housing type, roof suitability, geography and large developments affect comparisons. This league does not measure council effort, installation quality or household savings. Ranks use unrounded values; figures displayed in the table are rounded.

DESNZ source publication ↗ · Original workbook ↗

Battery: coverage still to be completed

The DESNZ battery release of 28 May 2026 was checked. It covers MCS-certified domestic retrofit installations and excludes commercial and new-build properties; its tables do not provide local-authority totals. Battery fields remain blank in the download. Solar and battery series should not be added together as a count of unique properties.

DESNZ battery statistics ↗

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. SunBru’s rankings are independently calculated, not endorsed by DESNZ or any council. This snapshot does not update automatically. The September 2026 release revises earlier years; the 2024 baseline here comes from the same workbook as 2025, rather than the previous SunBru snapshot.

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