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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Chelmsford

1,154 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 5,053 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 350 of 633 and accounts for 0.13% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,154installations
5,053 kWinstalled capacity
350of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 267 installed

When they went up

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

0 134 267 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Chelmsford by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,154

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,126
Non Domestic (Commercial)24
Non Domestic (Industrial)3
Community1

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
CM1 5842,751
CM2 5702,302

Nearby in the ranking

Chelmsfordcouncil view Tamworth1,165 installationsDunfermline and West Fife1,164 installationsWakefield1,156 installationsNorth Warwickshire1,139 installationsGedling1,130 installationsAyr- Carrick and Cumnock1,123 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)