This suggests the country will add more than 4.5GW in 2014, potentially making the UK the biggest EU market this year, overtaking Germany, which is expected to install 3GW.

With more than 440 large ground-mounted PV projects at various points in planning, and with at least 124 of them with ambitions of coming on stream before April 2015 (according to researcher NPD Solarbuzz), an installation rush looks inevitable.

However,