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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Caithness- Sutherland and Easter Ross
1,517 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 24,857 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 234 of 633 and accounts for 0.17% of every FIT installation in the country.
1,517installations
24,857 kWinstalled capacity
234of 633 constituencies
2012busiest year, 445 installed
When they went up
Like most of the country, Caithness- Sutherland and Easter Ross front-loaded: the busiest year was 2012, before the tariff cuts began to bite.
What is installed
| Technology | Installations |
|---|---|
| Photovoltaic | 1,378 |
| Wind | 112 |
| Hydro | 27 |
Domestic and everything else
| Installation type | Installations |
|---|---|
| Domestic | 1,436 |
| Non Domestic (Commercial) | 72 |
| Non Domestic (Industrial) | 5 |
| Community | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| KW14 | 370 | 3,485 |
| KW1 | 200 | 1,131 |
| IV17 | 129 | 2,380 |
| IV27 | 128 | 6,822 |
| IV25 | 101 | 362 |
| IV18 | 91 | 423 |
| IV19 | 88 | 825 |
| IV20 | 69 | 939 |
| KW12 | 60 | 296 |
| KW9 | 53 | 468 |
| IV24 | 46 | 1,754 |
| KW3 | 38 | 399 |
| KW10 | 37 | 141 |
| IV16 | 36 | 4,805 |
| IV28 | 20 | 110 |
| KW6 | 18 | 118 |
| KW5 | 15 | 228 |
| KW8 | 8 | 26 |
| KW13 | 5 | 125 |
Nearby in the ranking
Highlandcouncil view Horsham1,547 installationsSheffield South East1,545 installationsKettering1,524 installationsStafford1,512 installationsElmet and Rothwell1,512 installationsMid Sussex1,509 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)