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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Cambridge

1,433 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 7,375 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 255 of 633 and accounts for 0.16% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,433installations
7,375 kWinstalled capacity
255of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 332 installed

When they went up

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

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

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,433

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,338
Non Domestic (Commercial)82
Community12
Non Domestic (Industrial)1

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
CB4 4051,704
CB2 3842,047
CB1 3601,401
CB3 1621,871
CB5 122351

Nearby in the ranking

Cambridgecouncil view Orkney and Shetland1,436 installationsCongleton1,436 installationsRossendale and Darwen1,435 installationsNewcastle upon Tyne North1,432 installationsNorth East Hertfordshire1,432 installationsEastbourne1,427 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)