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United Kingdom · energy transition

Solar capacity,
without roof-level guesses.

The official deployment series reports 22,992.2 MW of UK solar photovoltaic capacity in July 2026. It is useful national context, not a household installation register or suitability score.

Latest capacity22,992.2 MW
Latest periodJuly 2026
Starting point29.9 MW
LicenceOGL 3.0

Selected annual checkpoints

How deployment changed

Values are cumulative capacity in megawatts from the published monthly table.

2010December 2010Early series point29.9 MW
2015December 2015Cumulative capacity8,236.5 MW
2020December 2020Cumulative capacity13,154.2 MW
2023December 2023Cumulative capacity15,931.1 MW
2025December 2025Cumulative capacity22,278.6 MW
2026July 2026Latest point in this release22,992.2 MW

Source boundary

National deployment, not local exposure.

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Solar photovoltaics deployment, July 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. No household, owner or installation-level records are used.

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