Energy Supply: Solar Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much electricity installed photovoltaic generation has contributed to the UK electricity supply through the national grid in each of the last five years. (148429)

The latest available data are as follows:

*GWh*
	Generation from photovoltaic sources transferred to the public distribution system	Total electricity supplied
2001	1.5	371,187
2002	2.2	368,979
2003	2.4	374,469
2004	3.6	373,401
2005	7.5	379,485
Source: Digest of UK Energy Statistics, 2006.

The proportion of total photovoltaic energy generation supplied to the grid is estimated. The proportion of UK electricity supplied accounted for by photovoltaics is in each year less than 0.01 per cent.

Volume 462: debated on Tuesday 10 July 2007