The Department of Energy and Climate Change has released the official quarterly statistics for solar pv installations in 2012. Under the newly-introduced capacity trigger mechanism, the level of installations recorded in May, June and July inform the Feed in Tariff rates for November 1st.

As a result, the Feed in Tariff rates in the UK from November 1 will be as follows:

Digression Band	Tariff band	Deployment level	Digression rate	FiT tariff from November 1
0-10kW	≤4kW	163.77MW	3.5%	15.44p
	>4-10kW		3.5%	13.99p
>10-50kW	>10-50kW	57.09MW	3.5%	13.03p
>50kW-5MW	>50-100kW	13.94MW	0.0%	11.5p
	>100-150kW		0.0%	11.5p
	>150-250kW		0.0%	11p
	>250kW-5MW		0.0%	7.1p
	Stand-alone		0.0%	7.1p

For further details on the changes as an existing or prospective MCS Installer please call our MCS Accreditation team on 0800 882 4309.