Speeches

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, how much solar PV was installed under the 50kW to 5MW feed-in tariff bands in (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014 to date.

Gregory Barker

The table below shows the total number of 50kW to 5MW solar PV installations accredited under the Feed-in Tariff scheme.

From April

Number of installations

Total installed capacity (kW)

2010

11

956

2011

231

84,478

2012

212

36,878

2013

180

30,071

2014 [1]

2

320

Installations are grouped into years based on their ‘commissioning date’ i.e. the date the technology was physically installed and deemed to be up and running.

[1] Includes installations commissioned to the end of March 2014. April 2014 statistics will be published at 09:30am on Thursday 22nd May 2014 on the DECC website (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/monthly-small-scale-renewable-deployment).