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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Eastbourne

1,427 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 5,686 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 258 of 633 and accounts for 0.16% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,427installations
5,686 kWinstalled capacity
258of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 558 installed

When they went up

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

0 279 558 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Installations commissioned in Eastbourne by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,427

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,386
Non Domestic (Commercial)34
Community6
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
BN23 5452,143
BN22 4461,579
BN20 230937
BN21 165930
BN26 4197

Nearby in the ranking

Eastbournecouncil view Cambridge1,433 installationsNewcastle upon Tyne North1,432 installationsNorth East Hertfordshire1,432 installationsRomsey and Southampton North1,426 installationsMorley and Outwood1,425 installationsWarrington South1,425 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)