The UK 's large - scale ground - mount post - subsidy solar pipeline is far smaller than the 3.34 billion cited by some analysts , according to climate research organisation Solar Media . It has identified 55 schemes out of the 197 schemes in the planning system which it describes as " live " , putting the solar capacity at 573 MW . The company said across the entire UK portfolio of 197 schemes , 41 projects were regarded as " 2019-viable " , putting the active capacity at 629 MW .
The UK's large-scale ground-mount post-subsidy solar pipeline is far smaller than the 3.34 GW cited by some analysts, according to market research organisation Solar Media. It has identified 55 projects out of the 125 projects in the planning system which it deemed as "live", putting the solar pipeline at 573 MW. The company said across the entire UK portfolio of 197 schemes, 41 projects were regarded as "2019-viable", putting the active pipeline at 629 MW.