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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Blackburn

1,799 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 6,851 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 157 of 633 and accounts for 0.21% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,799installations
6,851 kWinstalled capacity
157of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 733 installed

When they went up

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

0 367 733 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Blackburn by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,799

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,755
Non Domestic (Commercial)35
Community5
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
BB1 1,1284,377
BB2 6482,391
BB3 2384

Nearby in the ranking

Blackburn with Darwencouncil view Mansfield1,804 installationsStalybridge and Hyde1,804 installationsStoke-on-Trent Central1,803 installationsBexhill and Battle1,788 installationsPerth and North Perthshire1,786 installationsNorth West Norfolk1,783 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)