New data from the UK government has shown that the UK now has 16.9GW of solar capacity online as of the end of June 2024.
The latest statistics from the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) revealed that the UK’s solar capacity grew by 8.5% (1.3 GW) over the previous year, a capacity spread across over 1.5 million domestic and commercial solar installations.
In 2023, 196,782 new solar projects came online. This represents the second-highest number of new solar projects in any given year, topped only by 2011’s 208,586 installations.
However, the document’s commentary notes that the amount of new capacity installed in 2023 was only the fifth highest on record as most of the new installations were small in size.
In June 2024, 15,807 new installations were completed, accounting for 65MW of capacity. While this is a lower number than May’s 16,333 number, it is much higher than the average figures seen between 2016 and 2021, and just higher than the median number of monthly installations over the past 12 months (15,000).
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