Installations of renewable tech hit new highs in 2025

RECORD numbers of renewable technologies, from heat pumps to solar panels, were installed in UK homes and small businesses in 2025, figures show.

- EMILY BEAMENT Press Association

Data from the MCS (Microgeneration Certification Scheme), the quality mark for small-scale renewables, show 369,000 certified renewable installations were installed in 2025, a record level fuelled by new highs of rooftop solar, heat pumps and battery storage units.

Rooftop solar installations beat the record set in 2011 by 31%, as 267,032 sets of panels were installed, while more than 60,000 certified heat pumps were put in, the most for a single year.

Meanwhile, there were more than 40,000 certified installations of batteries in homes and small businesses, almost doubling the previous record, MCS said.

The level of renewable installations is an increase of a third (34%) on 2024, and equates to one unit of clean technology being installed across British homes and businesses every 90 seconds last year.