The latest figures from the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (onsnz) show that the solar capacity has risen by 8.1% year after year.
From the end of May 2025, the VK has added a total of 18.9 GW of solar capacity over 1,803,000 installations, with 1.4 GW of solar capacity since May 2024. Last month, 23,098 saw new solar installations with a combined capacity of 89 MW completed in the Development of the DC and Number of the DC and Number of the DC from the DC and Number of the DC from the DC from the DC from the DC from the DC from the DC in the DCTUT of the DC and Number of the Det Avert) and the Devel of Developed from the DC from the DC and Number of the Det off-the Deputies and the Devel of Det Age of Deted from the DC from the DC and Number of Det Age of Deted from the DC from the DCTUT from the DC from the DC from the DC from the Det Age of the DC from the DC from the DCCOST from the DCCOST VAN CHOTOR that and the one. 2021.
Although most of the British Solar PV installations are domestic per volume, which means that 1,552,266 of the total solar installations of the country form, these installations are only 30% of the total MW capacity of the British solar zon. In May of this year, 66% of the new solar PV was installed on residential buildings, which adds 65 MW capacity, an increase in relation to the total of 59 MW of last month.
In 2024 a total of 191,000 solar installations came online in the UK, a decrease of 3% compared to the figure of 197,000. However, this number is much greater than the average number of annual installations between 2016 and 2022, which is 63,000 annually.
A recent report from Solar Media Market Research estimates that the UK is expected to add new solar capacity in 2025 between 3 GW and 3.5 GW. About 20% of the 2.3 GW of solar energy that was used in 2024 came from residential roof installations, with commercial installations on the roof that still contributes 20%.
Other recent analysis, however, indicates a number of factors that can hinder the growth capacity in the UK this year -of this, the increasing time that is taken for approving planning applications is demonstrably the most important, where market research analyst Josh Cornes of the Zonne -Media has risen to the average waiting time. The shortening of the time frame for PV energy plants for solar energy to obtain the approval of the planning has become an increasing focus of the British government in recent months, with the industrial strategy announced last week insisting on the recruitment of 300 new planning officials in a significant sub-divisional officials to pack a significant sub-divorce officials in a significant sub-divorce officers in.
