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PV installation rates on the rise

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The latest PV installation figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) indicate that installed capacity has hit a rate of 7MW a week, for the first time in three months.

For the week ending 03 March, 7,134kW of fresh capacity was registered in the 0-50kW band which rose to 7,582 in the week ending 17 march.

This latest data appears to show a small amount of growth in the domestic PV sector after weekly installation rates fell to a low of 2MW at the turn of the year.

So far, installation rates in the 0-50kW band have been too weak throughout 2013 to trigger any further degression in the Feed-in Tariff and no change is now expected until 01 July.

Week ending

Capacity installed (kW)

30 December 2012

863

06 January 2013

1,975

13 January 2013

4,923

20 January 2013

5,683

27 January 2013

4,835

03 February 2013

5,892

10 February 2013

5,900

17 February 2013

5,662

24 February 2013

6,608

03 March 2013

7,134

10 March 2013

6,655

17 March 2013

7,582

 Source: DECC