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MCS Installations Database (MID) - data request route
The MCS Service Company Ltd
- Licence
- Commercial or restricted
- Cost
- Paid or bespoke
- Account needed
- Unclear
- Harvestable
- Not harvestable
What it contains
Record-level register of every MCS-certified small-scale renewable installation in the UK since 2008: technology, capacity, commissioning date, installation address/postcode, installer identity, product make/model. The authoritative UK microgeneration register.
When you need it
Useful at these project stages, from the working group's stage matrix:
- Matched on
- Description of adjacent buildings and projects
- Assigned by
- Matched to data items the matrix names
Coverage and detail
- Geographic
- United Kingdom
- Nations
- UK-wide
- Resolution
- Installation-level with address; MCS releases to postcode granularity by negotiation
- Formats
- CSV/XLSX by agreement
- Update cadence
- On request
Access and machine route
- Licence as stated
- COMMERCIAL/BESPOKE - 'Any data provided that exists beyond The MCS Data Dashboard may incur a charge'. Data-sharing agreement plus GDPR data-minimisation justification required.
- Assertion source
- as published by The MCS Service Company Ltd
- Protocol
- Request form only; no API, no bulk download
- Harvest note
- no
Caveats
Answers the brief's MCS question definitively: dashboard is free but aggregate-only; record-level is paid and contractual; there is NO API. Private company, so no FOI route.
Classification
- Category
- Infrastructure & Networks
- Sub-category
- 3.4 Existing geothermal & ground-source installations
- Assigned by
- Stated by the source
- Depth domain
- Surface
- Data form
- Tabular
- Evidence confidence
- Not yet assessed. Only a person can set this.
How current this entry is
- Last updated here
- 2026-09-22
- Last checked against the holder
- 2026-09-07
- Checked by a person
- Not yet. Nobody has read this entry.
- Catalogue id
- mcs-installations-database-mid-data-request-route
Open at The MCS Service Company Ltd
Commercial or restricted terms apply.
Resolved
A server answered on 2026-09-08 and returned the expected page.
Checked by automated request, not in a browser. A site can answer a script and still fail for a reader, so treat this as a weak signal.
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