MCS is reporting a record January for renewable installations, with a particularly strong surge in battery storage and heat pumps.
Ian Rippin, CEO at MCS, comments, “The latest data from the MCS Data Dashboard show that January 2025 was the strongest start to the year in Scheme history for certified renewable installations, with 23,021 systems installed – up 26% from January 2024.
“Battery storage saw its best month ever, with over 2,600 installations – a 176% increase compared to January 2024. This surge is underpinned by the growth of our certified battery storage installer base, which now exceeds 2,000.
“Heat pumps also continue their upward trajectory, with 4,902 installations recorded in January – up 21% on January last year – as more homeowners make the switch to low-carbon heating. This brings the UK’s total number of certified heat pump installations to 280,992 as of the end of January 2025.”
MCS holds the most comprehensive repository of data on the uptake of small-scale renewable technologies across the UK on The MCS Data Dashboard. For near-real-time updates on renewable installations, you can sign up for free to The MCS Data Dashboard by clicking here.
About The MCS Data Dashboard
The MCS Data Dashboard provides near-real-time dynamic visualisations of the uptake of small-scale renewable technologies across the UK. It is divided into two sections: Installation Insights and Scheme Insights. Both can be filtered by year and month, location, technology type and installation type, and the system is updated every 24 hours as new installation data becomes available.
Address-level installation data is mapped to the local authority/regional/national geographical levels using a small degree of estimation from postcode to output area, in order to be matched to census data. As there are no live datasets detailing household data for each local authority, uptake percentage figures should be taken as estimates, with their calculation being the total number of installations in an area divided by the total number of households in that same area.
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