{"id":3797,"date":"2014-06-27T11:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T10:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2015-09-09T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T08:57:18","slug":"uk-breaks-solar-power-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/27\/uk-breaks-solar-power-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Solar Power Record is Smashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SunPanel.jpg\" alt=\"SunPanel\" width=\"355\" height=\"230\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>The UK has broken its own personal best solar power record in the last few weeks by nearly doubling its 2013 solar output for the same period. This is a massive step in the right direction and wasn\u2019t predicted. (With the budget removed by the government it was feared this would shrink.) Solar capacity in the UK is difficult to measure due to massive array of small personal PV and solar cells on houses. However, it is estimated that last year the installed solar capacity generated from homes, buildings, and solar farms was 2.7GW. It has now risen to 4.7gw!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What the Experts Say<\/h2>\n<p>Ray Noble, consultant at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bre.co.uk\/podpage.jsp?id=2983\">UK National Solar Centre<\/a>, said this: \u201cThere are now 530,000 installations in the UK, of which 510,000 are domestic small-scale ones. Last weekend we estimated they generated about 8% of daytime electricity in total. We think that this is likely to double again within a year. There is nothing to stop it getting to 30-40% of UK electricity at this time of year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Worldwide Picture<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3813 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/earth-from-space-449751-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"earth-from-space-449751\" width=\"355\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/earth-from-space-449751-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/earth-from-space-449751-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/earth-from-space-449751.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re not the only ones breaking records either! France, Italy, Denmark, and Germany (amongst others) are believed to have generated record amounts in June as well. Germany has been one of the fore-runners in moving to renewable energy for a long time. They managed a peak of 23.1GW hours at lunchtime Monday 9 June. This is equivalent to 50.6% of its total electricity need. It\u2019ll be a long time before we can challenge them for the top spot but the UK certainly isn\u2019t the last horse in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Europe added 10.9GW of PV capacity in 2013 which made a total of 81GW worldwide!<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2014\/jun\/23\/uk-and-germany-break-solar-power-records\">The Guardian: UK and Germany break solar power records<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bre.co.uk\/podpage.jsp?id=2983\">UK National Solar Centre<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has broken its own personal best solar power record in the last few weeks by nearly doubling its 2013 solar output for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,43],"tags":[112,107],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-solar-energy","tag-breaking-news","tag-solar-energy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK Breaks Previous Solar Power Record from 2013<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The UK has smashed its best solar power records in the last few weeks nearly doubling its 2013 solar output for the same period.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/27\/uk-breaks-solar-power-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK Breaks Previous Solar Power Record from 2013\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The UK has smashed its best solar power records in the last few weeks nearly doubling its 2013 solar output for the same period.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/27\/uk-breaks-solar-power-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Indoor\/Outdoor Lighting Guides &amp; 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