The North West and North Wales has been part of the record rise in solar panel installations

A record number of homeowners had solar panels installed this month throughout North West England and North Wales, according to energy regulator Ofgem.

A total of 45'000 installations were recognised at the end of July 2011.Of this 45,000, more than a third of installations were registered within the last three months, highlighting a significant increase in the rate of installations registering under the scheme.

As in previous quarters of the scheme, photovoltaic installations continue to represent the vast majority of newly registered installations at over 98 percent of all installations registered between 1 April to 30 June 2011. Additionally during this period a number of other technologies were registered, although the rate of registration of these technologies was slower in the last quarter than in the fourth quarter of the first year.

The charts shown abvove (provided by ofgem) display the number of installations nationwide. It is clear to see that the South West and East are leading the numbers in terms of installations but the rest of the country is also contributing.

You can see installations in the North West of England total nearly 10% of Great Britains total. Wales also achieves 10% of all installations.

If you would like to see the full Ofgem report you can find it here.