Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much domestic solar PV by MWp has been deployed in quarter 2 of the new FIT scheme; and what the cap is for this quarter.

Domestic solar PV (typically over 4kW) is included within the over 10kW solar PV cap. The quarter two 2016 cap for solar PV over 10kW was set at 76.96 MW, which includes unutilised capacity from the quarter one 2016 cap. As of 17 May, 12.141 MW of capacity had been deployed within this cap.

Ofgem’s regular reports on the Feed-In Tariff deployment caps can be found at:

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/feed-tariff-fit-scheme/feed-tariff-fit-reports-and-statistics/feed-tariff-deployment-caps-reports.

More recent deployment levels followed a high number of applications before the introduction of caps and reduced tariffs on 8 February. For example, domestic (over 4kW) deployment in MW in December 2015 was more than double that of December 2014, and January 2016 more than triple that of January 2015.