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Government figures show a 6.7% increase in the UK’s solar capacity in last year

July 28, 2023
The UK government has published solar PV deployment statistics which show a total of 15.2GW of solar capacity, an increase of 6.7% in the year since June 2022.
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UK installing domestic solar PV at the fastest rate since 2016

July 6, 2023
New data from NTT DATA, based on UK government statistics, suggests that 73% of all solar deployment in 2022 was domestic.
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80GW of new solar PV needed to reach net zero targets

September 9, 2020
The UK will need to deploy 80GW of solar to meet net zero according to a new whitepaper.
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STA brands BEIS as ‘extremely negligent’ over inaccurate solar statistics

January 31, 2020
The Solar Trade Association (STA) has once again hit out at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) over its solar statistics.
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Export guarantee assessment suggests solar deployment impact to be minimal

January 9, 2019
The government expects its proposed Smart Export Guarantee to have a positive, albeit notional impact on domestic solar deployment it has said.
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Exclusive: Government shelved its own solar deployment plans after subsidy cuts

March 20, 2018
The government quietly abandoned plans to install 1GW of solar on its estate following cuts to subsidies it enacted in 2015, Solar Power Portal can reveal.
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UK solar hits near 6-year low as Q3 deployment fails to reach 100MW

November 1, 2016
There remain mixed views on where the UK solar industry goes from now. In the wake of a six-year low in deployment, Finlay Colville mulls the options.
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UK solar deployment again creates challenges for government tracking methods

June 30, 2016
Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media looks into how the government continues to struggle with solar deployment

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