Solar Power: Renewables Obligation

(asked on 11th September 2015) - View Source

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many domestic solar PV installations were made in the UK in each of the last five years for which records are available.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 22nd September 2015

The table below provides the number of domestic solar PV installations in the UK from 2010 to 2015 (data up to June for 2015). Data for Great Britain are for installations supported by the Feed in Tariff, designated as being for domestic use. For Northern Ireland, there is no breakdown of sector available, but all installations are less than 50 kW, and are all included here.

Year

GB

NI

UK

2010

21,044

41

21,085

2011

189,280

155

189,435

2012

148,483

775

149,258

2013

88,570

3,779

92,349

2014

113,080

6,634

119,714

2015

39,118

2,830

41,948

Source:

GB data from the Central Feed-in Tariff Register, as at end of June 2015. A snap shot of cumulative installations as at the end of June 2015 is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics

Data for Northern Ireland from the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (and Renewables Obligation), also available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solar-photovoltaics-deployment.

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