Ofgem unveils plan for electricity retail market-wide half-hourly settlement
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UK s solar sector rebounding from pandemic and subsidy closures
175MW of solar generation capacity was installed across the UK between January and March, according to new figures, compared to just 60MW in the same quarter of 2020.
Ground-mounted arrays accounted for the majority of capacity additions
The figures were released this week in a new announcement from Solar Energy UK and Solar Media. According to these organisations, the UK’s total installed capacity is now 14GW – of which more than 1GW is classed as completely subsidy-free.
The organisations tracked a sharp decline in capacity additions in the second quarter of 2019, following the closure of the Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) scheme. Additions then began to pick up in the latter half of 2019 but fell once again in early 2020, with Covid-19 affecting supply chains and investor priorities.
Friday, 16 April 2021 Figures released by Solar Energy UK and Solar Media Ltd show that 175 MW of photovoltaic (PV) solar capacity was installed across the UK from January – March 2021.
This significant growth over the winter period brings the UK’s total installed PV capacity to more than 14 GW, generating enough electricity to power over 3 million homes. Ground-mounted solar parks form 70 percent of the new capacity, while post-subsidy rooftop markets also continue to thrive. Rooftop solar capacity has seen 14 percent year-on-year growth.
Subsidy-free solar PV in the UK now exceeds 1 GW, or 7.3 percent of total installed capacity.
On a rolling basis, 660 MW of new capacity was installed in the 12-month period to 31 March 2021, and the UK could be on track to deliver a gigawatt of new solar capacity this year.