The latest statistics released by the United Kingdom's government reveal that the solar photo voltaic capacity continued to grow in 2012, by increment, slowly but surely, in the first three quarters of the year, the main reason being the high uptake of the feed in tariff, at least that's what the official figures told us.
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC for friends) released the statistics at the end of 2012, they reveal that the total photo voltaic capacity installed in the United Kingdom in the Q3 of 2012 reached 1.6 GW, a pretty impressive figure.
This means that 11 percent of all renewable electricity generated in the UK comes from solar power alone, and this is an increase of 169 MW over the previous quarter's total.
If we compare the figures to the same quarter last year, the solar power capacity in the United Kingdom more than tripled, in 2011 the capacity installed was a mere 489 MW.
The documents claim that the increase was facilitated by the uptake of the United Kingdom's feed-in tariff.
Anyway, the growth was pretty slow between Q2 and Q3 in 2012, if we compare with the same period of 2011, the increase was only 170 MW compared to 277 MW in 2011.
Bottom line, according to DECC's figures, from the total capacity of the UK, renewables were 11.7 percent, an increase of 2.4 percent on the same figure at the end of Q3 of 2011, when the renewables represented just 9.1 percent of UK's capacity.
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