Solar power uptake in UK isn’t just down south
Posted by ericww on August 21, 2010
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WE’VE not written much on this blog about A Shade Greener apart from a few passing mentions with regards to recent free solar power offers – but the company is definitely doing its bit to prove that even if you are based in the slightly less sunny northern part of the UK, you can still benefit from solar power and cheaper electricity bills.
Figures released earlier this month by Ofgem, the gas and electricity regulator, revealed the number of solar PV installations which have taken place since 1 April, 2010 – when the Feed-in-tariff (FiT) was introduced in the UK – up to 31 July, 2010.
According to A Shade Greener the figures demonstrated that Yorkshire and Humberside is now just behind the South West and South East when it comes to megawatts of solar PV fitted since the FiT scheme began.
It says on the company’s website: “An astonishing 1.69 megawatts were fitted in the Yorkshire & Humberside region from 1st April to 31st July and the Solar Power Portal considers that our company’s scheme is the reason that the installations for this region are much higher than would be expected.”
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