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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Bridgwater and West Somerset
2,935 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 35,909 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 37 of 633 and accounts for 0.34% of every FIT installation in the country.
2,935installations
35,909 kWinstalled capacity
37of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 872 installed
When they went up
Like most of the country, Bridgwater and West Somerset front-loaded: the busiest year was 2011, before the tariff cuts began to bite.
What is installed
| Technology | Installations |
|---|---|
| Photovoltaic | 2,904 |
| Wind | 19 |
| Hydro | 8 |
| Anaerobic digestion | 4 |
Domestic and everything else
| Installation type | Installations |
|---|---|
| Domestic | 2,747 |
| Non Domestic (Commercial) | 137 |
| Community | 44 |
| Non Domestic (Industrial) | 7 |
Postcode districts
Districts with five or more installations. Below five we publish nothing, because a count that small starts to identify individual houses.
| District | Installations | Capacity kW |
|---|---|---|
| TA6 | 747 | 14,790 |
| TA7 | 635 | 8,581 |
| TA24 | 490 | 2,109 |
| TA5 | 404 | 5,279 |
| TA4 | 272 | 1,239 |
| TA23 | 182 | 660 |
| TA22 | 93 | 609 |
| TA9 | 74 | 2,494 |
| TA3 | 17 | 57 |
| TA2 | 12 | 47 |
Nearby in the ranking
Sedgemoorcouncil view North Herefordshire3,047 installationsSouth East Cambridgeshire3,021 installationsScunthorpe2,960 installationsBrigg and Goole2,899 installationsRichmond (Yorks)2,894 installationsTaunton Deane2,870 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.
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