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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Dumfries and Galloway

2,177 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 24,061 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 94 of 633 and accounts for 0.25% of every FIT installation in the country.

2,177installations
24,061 kWinstalled capacity
94of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 831 installed

When they went up

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

0 416 831 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Installations commissioned in Dumfries and Galloway by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,860
Wind259
Hydro48
Anaerobic digestion10

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,893
Non Domestic (Commercial)249
Non Domestic (Industrial)19
Community16

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
DG7 4043,754
DG2 4003,840
DG9 3725,955
DG8 3664,960
DG1 2981,335
DG6 1771,295
DG5 1302,441
DG3 30481

Nearby in the ranking

Dumfries and Gallowaycouncil view Yeovil2,204 installationsNewton Abbot2,191 installationsHemsworth2,181 installationsWarrington North2,174 installationsBerwick-upon-Tweed2,167 installationsEast Hampshire2,157 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)