Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department is taking to deliver the Government's aim of 20 GWp of solar PV by 2020.

The Government set out the measures it intends to take to promote deployment of solar PV in the UK Solar PV Strategy published in April:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/302049/uk_solar_pv_strategy_part_2.pdf

The Final EMR Delivery Plan indicated that about 11-12 GWp of solar PV could be deployed in UK by the end of the decade. Scope for more ambitious deployment, perhaps approaching 20GW early in the next decade, will be predicated on a number of factors being fulfilled, notably the sector moving towards grid parity over the next few years.