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 |
