in 2012, the government announced that 4 million homes across the uk will be powered by the sun within eight years, representing 22 gigawatt (gw) of installed solar power capacity by 2020. at the end of september 2013, retailer ikea announced that solar panel packages for houses would be sold at 17 united kingdom stores by july 2014. the decision followed a successful pilot project at the thurrock ikea store, during which one photovoltaic (pv) system was sold almost every day. the panels are manufactured by the chinese company hanergy. this partnership did not last and in october 2015 ikea ended its relationship with hanergy.