Solar Power: Companies
(asked on 18th January 2016) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many solar power companies there were in (a) Lancashire, (b) the North West and (c) Britain in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013, (v) 2014 and (vi) 2015.
DECC does not hold information on the number of solar power companies. However, data on the number of solar photovoltaic installations (including households) by UK region, are available for 2010 to 2014. This is given in the table below. DECC does not hold information by UK county. Data for 2015 for the UK as a whole will be available on 28 January 2016, and by region in September 2016.
End-2010 | End-2011 | End-2012 | End-2013 | End-2014 | |
North-West England | 1,404 | 17,723 | 33,208 | 41,960 | 54,583 |
Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) | 25,684 | 221,000 | 374,778 | 465,678 | 574,582 |
Source: Regional Renewables Statistics, 2003-2014, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/regional-renewable-statistics
Data by Local Authority (for 2014 only) are available on the same link. Monthly solar installations data for the UK as a whole are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solar-photovoltaics-deployment