Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of plug-in solar deployment on the capacity requirements of the electricity distribution network in the south east of England.

The Department expects the impact of plug-in solar on network capacity requirements to be small as the maximum power output is low and most of the electricity generated is expected to be self-consumed. We have worked with the Energy Networks Association (ENA) to develop a simple consumer registration platform to provide network operators with visibility of installations and support network planning.