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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Folkestone and Hythe

2,006 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 10,450 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 118 of 633 and accounts for 0.23% of every FIT installation in the country.

2,006installations
10,450 kWinstalled capacity
118of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 567 installed

When they went up

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

0 284 567 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Folkestone and Hythe by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,996
Wind9
Anaerobic digestion1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,917
Non Domestic (Commercial)70
Non Domestic (Industrial)12
Community7

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
TN29 3782,524
CT19 2841,320
CT18 2801,045
CT21 2771,471
TN25 2381,544
TN28 206841
CT20 192686
CT4 100590
TN26 40349
CT15 1040

Nearby in the ranking

Folkestone and Hythecouncil view Garston and Halewood2,042 installationsCleethorpes2,041 installationsDoncaster Central2,010 installationsAshford1,995 installationsThornbury and Yate1,979 installationsGravesham1,978 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)