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

How to use this series

Compare periods before drawing a conclusion

Capacity is cumulative, so a higher total does not reveal how many installations were added in a particular month.

Use consecutive checkpoints to understand the pace of national deployment, and compare the same months where seasonal reporting may matter. Policy changes, project size and reporting revisions can all move the series. For a home or site decision, pair this national trend with a roof survey, local planning constraints, grid-connection advice and an installer quote: none of those property-level facts are present here.

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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