State of Play of the Market

[Worcester]

Here's a quick analyis of April-August 2013 vs 2012 - Starting April ignores last years Jan-March rushes on all technologies.

Figures are # of installs

	2012	2013	Change
Technology	Apr-Aug	Apr-Aug	%
Air Source Heat Pumps	1,767	1,762	-0.28%
Biomass	264	484	83.33%
Exhaust Air Source Heat Pumps	92	0	-100.00%
Ground Source Heat Pumps	453	206	-54.53%
Micro CHP	46	6	-86.96%
Micro Hydro	3	0	-100.00%
Small Wind	549	111	-79.78%
Solar PV	59,804	42,649	-28.69%
Solar Keymark	1,736	955	-44.99%
Solar Thermal	513	500	-2.53%
Grand Total	65,227	46,673	-28.45%

Solar thermal is down, becasue solar pv is down - the shiny suited salesman often sold both technologies at one hit.

Here also are the numbers of installers of the different technologies:

	Aug-12	Aug-13
Solar PV installers	4412	3140
Joining the scheme	55	30
Leaving the scheme	56	80
Biomass	233	266
Joining the scheme	7	11
Leaving the scheme	1	7
Air Source Heat Pumps	897	858
Joining the scheme	20	19
Leaving the scheme	10	23
Exhaust Air Heat Pumps	554	560
Joining the scheme	15	15
Leaving the scheme	8	13
Ground Source Heat Pumps	756	719
Joining the scheme	16	15
Leaving the scheme	9	18
Micro Hydro	28	28
Joining the scheme		0
Leaving the scheme		0
Micro CHP	19	15
Joining the scheme		0
Leaving the scheme	1	0
Solar Thermal	1268	1074
Joining the scheme	31	14
Leaving the scheme	11	32
Small and Micro Wind	144	128
Joining the scheme	0	0
Leaving the scheme	3	4
Total number of Installers	5173	3650
Number of installers joining the scheme	144	104
Number of installers leaving the scheme	99	177

Remove the PV installers, and you've only got in the order of 1000 - 1500 installers ....

 

[SRE]

Greenest government ever - nuff said!

 

[Worcester]

Any Questions Radio 4 last night shouting that there were 1m homes with PV on.... according to MCS website actual number of MCS PV installations is less than 500,000 (456,303)

 

[TedM]

Gordon, is the data from your first post from the MCS (so only ≤50kW) or from DECC covering all sizes (or from somewhere else)?

 

[Worcester]

Hi Ted, it's the latest figured from The MCS web site, so <50kW

 

[The Solar King]

Anecdotally, I have heard that only about 25% of registered PV installers are active. The comes from two different sources both of whom were contacting all registered businesses as part of telemarketing activity.