For the first time ever, solar photovoltaics has been included as a key technology in the government’s Renewables Roadmap.
The updated Renewables Roadmap sets out which renewable technologies the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) views as integral to achieving the UK’s 2020 renewable targets.
Following a five-fold increase in solar capacity, DECC has recognised that solar in the UK has the potential to form a significant part of the future energy generation mix. As part of the updated roadmap, DECC has modelled that the industry could install between 7-20GW of solar by 2020. However, the document warns that, “movement towards the top limit of deployment (20GW) is heavily dependent on decreasing the costs and being able to balance the UK grid network.”
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