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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Charnwood

1,476 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 6,254 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 247 of 633 and accounts for 0.17% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,476installations
6,254 kWinstalled capacity
247of 633 constituencies
2012busiest year, 321 installed

When they went up

Like most of the country, Charnwood front-loaded: the busiest year was 2012, before the tariff cuts began to bite.

0 161 321 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Charnwood by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,474
Wind2

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,444
Non Domestic (Commercial)28
Non Domestic (Industrial)2
Community2

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
LE7 5162,232
LE4 3271,138
LE3 2731,244
LE6 147659
LE12 134691
LE9 66223
LE67 638
LE5 624

Nearby in the ranking

Charnwoodcouncil view Harborough1,494 installationsBraintree1,493 installationsSouth West Surrey1,486 installationsIpswich1,453 installationsSouth Ribble1,443 installationsEast Surrey1,439 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)