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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Elmet and Rothwell

1,512 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 7,787 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 236 of 633 and accounts for 0.17% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,512installations
7,787 kWinstalled capacity
236of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 295 installed

When they went up

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

0 148 295 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Elmet and Rothwell by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,500
Wind9
Anaerobic digestion3

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,478
Non Domestic (Commercial)26
Community5
Non Domestic (Industrial)3

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
LS25 4162,020
LS26 3831,374
LS22 216826
LS23 1861,878
LS17 106463
LS15 77289
WF10 65209
LS14 43270
WF3 15440
LS24 519

Nearby in the ranking

Leedscouncil view Kettering1,524 installationsCaithness- Sutherland and Easter Ross1,517 installationsStafford1,512 installationsMid Sussex1,509 installationsCity of Durham1,508 installationsOgmore1,508 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)