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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Barnsley East

1,874 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 8,046 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 140 of 633 and accounts for 0.22% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,874installations
8,046 kWinstalled capacity
140of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 482 installed

When they went up

Like most of the country, Barnsley East front-loaded: the busiest year was 2011, before the tariff cuts began to bite.

0 241 482 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Barnsley East by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,871
Wind3

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,823
Non Domestic (Commercial)48
Non Domestic (Industrial)2
Community1

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
S73 4901,784
S72 4852,540
S70 3911,618
S74 3191,310
S71 187786

Nearby in the ranking

Barnsleycouncil view Rushcliffe1,891 installationsMilton Keynes North1,887 installationsArundel and South Downs1,875 installationsYork Outer1,872 installationsBournemouth West1,862 installationsDewsbury1,855 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)