DECC announced 1.3GW of installations in UK

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The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that solar installations under the country’s feed-in tariff (FiT) have reached 1.3GW across the UK, according to Solar Power Portal.

The largest segment of the British market remains the <4kW retrofit market, which saw 13.513MW of solar capacity installed in September, a 4% on August’s figures.

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The latest figures show mixed performances across the various different tariff bands that solar operates within. However, the market appears to be slowly recovering after the fourth cut to the feed-in tariff was introduced last August.

 

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