UK: number of solar PV electricity sites

Solar photovoltaic sites in the United Kingdom numbered 1,259,511 by the end of 2022. Following commercial distribution in 2007, installations boomed between 2009 and 2014. With the market becoming more competitive, installation costs have fallen in recent years. Prices for small scale solar PV systems oscillated between 1,165 and 2,000 British pounds per kilowatt as of May 2022.

Number of sites generating electricity from solar photovoltaic in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2007 to 2022

Characteristic	Number of sites
2007	1,679
2008	2,475
2009	4,537
2010	28,958
2011	234,827
2012	403,014
2013	508,934
2014	650,660
2015	839,879
2016	877,422
2017	922,377
2018	992,958
2019	1,036,759
2020	1,072,261
2021	1,111,550
2022	1,249,511

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Release date

September 2023

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2007 to 2022

Supplementary notes

This statistic is using original data from the Department for Energy Security Net Zero and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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