August 2016: The last set of sub regional Feed in Tariff (FIT) statistics published by DECC – before it is merged with the business department into BEIS – were published last week (available here). London PV data – alongside other UK regions – is reproduced below.
Table 1. Cumulative installations confirmed on the Central Feed-in Tariff Register by Region
Table 2. Cumulative capacity confirmed on the Central Feed-in Tariff Register by Region
So – as at the end of June 2016:
- London had 20,551 PV installations (95% of which were domestic installations) with a total combined electrical generating capacity of 83.911MW.
- London’s capacity represented just 2% of total UK PV generating capacity
- The last FIT quarterly data set (for data up to the end of March 2016) reported that London had 20,123 PV installations in London and 81.623 MW – indicating a 2.28MW increase in capacity over the last three months.