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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Bishop Auckland

1,695 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 8,741 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 188 of 633 and accounts for 0.19% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,695installations
8,741 kWinstalled capacity
188of 633 constituencies
2015busiest year, 332 installed

When they went up

Bishop Auckland peaked in 2015, later than the national peak of 2011.

0 166 332 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Bishop Auckland by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,667
Wind24
Hydro4

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,634
Non Domestic (Commercial)50
Community7
Non Domestic (Industrial)4

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
DL14 5892,871
DL16 3821,653
DL12 2932,087
DL4 153930
DL2 127575
DL13 126464
DL11 22116

Nearby in the ranking

County Durhamcouncil view Sunderland Central1,701 installationsAngus1,699 installationsNorth West Hampshire1,695 installationsNew Forest East1,695 installationsArgyll and Bute1,690 installationsMid Bedfordshire1,689 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)