SPUK: Solar dominates UK FiT scheme

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Head of FiTs of the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, Alisdair Grainger, told participants at Solar Power UK in Birmingham that 98.2% of installations under the FiT scheme in the UK are now from PV. The head of FiTs made a very strong attempt to reassure the audience that cuts to and degression of the FiT in the UK was a positive move.

UK deployment data will be used by the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (Ofgem) to determine the FiT payment rates for solar PV installations. 

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Details are as follows:

Installations with declared net capacity of: Aggregate capacity deployed in period:
>0–10kW 163,769
>10–50kW 57,091
>50kW and standalone 13,938

 

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