Wow! 125,000 #UK homes added #solar #energy, to their rooftops last year The U.K.s residential rooftop PV sector enjoyed healthy and steady growth in 2014 as 125,000 homes added a solar system to their roof last year. Data published today by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) reveals that overall, some 700 MW of solar PV capacity was added to the U.K.’s small-scale sector in 2014 – a healthy level of growth for the country’s FIT-eligible solar sector, said David Pickup, business analyst at the Solar Trade Association (STA). These latest statistics show that the FIT solar PV market is seeing healthy growth with plenty of solar going up on domestic and commercial roofs as well as small solar farms, he said. The U.K. FIT is subject to regular reductions that are either triggered by volumes being met or a nine-month period being reached. Today’s announcement that the tariff for residential-size installations (sub 5 kW) is set to be reduced from April is the first time since 2012 that such a reduction has been triggered by installation growth rather than an automatic nine-month reduction. pv-magazine/news/details/beitrag/uk-added-700-mw-of-fit-driven-pv-in-2014--figures-show_100017918/#ixzz3PfQTuVJ5
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 04:24:56 +0000
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