The UK now has almost 400 large-scale solar power sites, totalling more than 9GW of potential new solar capacity. That’s the finding in the July 2020 release of a new report by Solar Media Market Research: UK Large-Scale Solar Farms: The Post-Subsidy Prospect List.
For example, during the first six months of 2020, new sites totalling 2.6 GW have been added to the pipeline – during the whole of 2019, the total capacity added up to 2.9GW, itself a figure that was thought to be extremely ambitious, Solar Markets & Finance notes, adding that just during the past three months of UK ‘lockdown’, more than 1.6GW of new sites have been added. The vast majority are at a very early stage, mostly at local authority screening and scoping. Site sizes are increasingly centred in the 40-50MWdc range, with 49.9MW by far the most common today.
The report is available here.