Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate her Department has made of the number of homes installed with solar panels in (a) Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency, (b) London and (c) England and Wales; and what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of such homes.

Most solar panels installed by businesses, schools and domestic homes will be supported by the Feed in Tariff (FIT) scheme. The Central FIT Register (CFR) uses the following sector categories to classify installations: community, domestic, and non-domestic (commercial and industrial). This breakdown is used in Tables A, B, and C below, which show the number and total capacity of solar PV installations in Hackney North and Stoke Newington, London, and England and Wales, respectively, as of 31 May 2015. For panels supported by the Renewables Obligation, sector information is not collected.

Table A – Number and capacity of solar PV installations in Hackney and Stoke Newington

Table B – Number and capacity of solar PV installations in London

Table C – Number and capacity of solar PV installations in England and Wales

The information above is sourced from the latest extract from the CFR provided by Ofgem. Geographical breakdowns on the CFR are published by DECC quarterly, available online at:

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

The government’s strategy for solar PV was published last year, available online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-solar-pv-strategy-part-1-roadmap-to-a-brighter-future.