Solar Power
(asked on 7th September 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of solar panels installed in homes and small businesses in the UK in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
We publish statistics on numbers of solar photovoltaic installations rather than on the number of solar panels installed or whether installations are domestic or small business. Typically installations on domestic properties will be less than 4 kiloWatts in capacity, and those on small businesses between 4 and 50 kiloWatts in capacity. The number of installations within each of these capacity bands over the last three years for which statistics are available is as follows:
Number of installations
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
0-4 kW – largely domestic | 97,327 | 131,994 | 179,066 |
4-50 kW – largely small businesses | 8,086 | 9,041 | 12,254 |
Source data:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solar-photovoltaics-deployment (table 1)