Julie Elliott – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Elliott on 2014-05-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of how much solar farm capacity (a) has been installed in the UK and (b) will be installed (i) in 2015-16 and (ii) by 2020.

Gregory Barker

Energy Trends published in March 2014, show that at the end of 2013, there were 2698MW [1] of installed capacity across all scales of solar photovoltaic. From January to the end of March 2014, the Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), which tracks all renewables projects over 0.01MW through the planning system (including both building mounted and ground mounted solar PV), shows an additional 264.37MW [2] of solar PV installed.

It is not possible to state precisely how much solar PV will be installed in 2015-16.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/295362/ET_March_2014.PDF .

[2]

https://restats.decc.gov.uk/app/reporting/decc/monthlyextract

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