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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Ashton-under-Lyne

1,502 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 5,545 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 241 of 633 and accounts for 0.17% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,502installations
5,545 kWinstalled capacity
241of 633 constituencies
2015busiest year, 593 installed

When they went up

Ashton-under-Lyne peaked in 2015, later than the national peak of 2011.

0 297 593 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Ashton-under-Lyne by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,502

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,476
Non Domestic (Commercial)22
Community3
Non Domestic (Industrial)1

Postcode districts

Districts with five or more installations. Below five we publish nothing, because a count that small starts to identify individual houses.

DistrictInstallationsCapacity kW
OL6 6812,065
OL7 3951,210
M43 2931,159
M35 89940
M34 41128

Nearby in the ranking

Tamesidecouncil view City of Durham1,508 installationsOgmore1,508 installationsBatley and Spen1,507 installationsRibble Valley1,501 installationsWest Lancashire1,501 installationsHarborough1,494 installations

On the tariff itself rather than the map: the rate finder will tell you what an installation here is paid, from its eligibility date and size.

Ofgem register as at 2025-12-31 Download all 633 constituencies (CSV)