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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Banff and Buchan

2,753 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 82,451 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 48 of 633 and accounts for 0.32% of every FIT installation in the country.

2,753installations
82,451 kWinstalled capacity
48of 633 constituencies
2012busiest year, 683 installed

When they went up

Like most of the country, Banff and Buchan front-loaded: the busiest year was 2012, before the tariff cuts began to bite.

0 342 683 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Banff and Buchan by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic2,461
Wind290
Hydro1
Anaerobic digestion1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic2,455
Non Domestic (Commercial)281
Community9
Non Domestic (Industrial)8

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
AB42 85414,727
AB43 74012,038
AB53 48919,917
AB45 37824,289
AB41 921,604
AB51 756,341
AB44 64291
AB54 562,715
AB56 5529

Nearby in the ranking

Aberdeenshirecouncil view East Devon2,799 installationsGainsborough2,777 installationsSouth West Devon2,774 installationsTruro and Falmouth2,742 installationsStroud2,707 installationsHarwich and North Essex2,704 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)