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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Forest of Dean
2,480 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 33,126 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 68 of 633 and accounts for 0.29% of every FIT installation in the country.
2,480installations
33,126 kWinstalled capacity
68of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 628 installed
When they went up
Like most of the country, Forest of Dean front-loaded: the busiest year was 2011, before the tariff cuts began to bite.
What is installed
| Technology | Installations |
|---|---|
| Photovoltaic | 2,461 |
| Wind | 9 |
| Anaerobic digestion | 7 |
| Hydro | 3 |
Domestic and everything else
| Installation type | Installations |
|---|---|
| Domestic | 2,324 |
| Non Domestic (Commercial) | 122 |
| Community | 22 |
| Non Domestic (Industrial) | 12 |
Postcode districts
Districts with five or more installations. Below five we publish nothing, because a count that small starts to identify individual houses.
| District | Installations | Capacity kW |
|---|---|---|
| GL15 | 532 | 14,561 |
| GL14 | 356 | 6,893 |
| GL18 | 338 | 3,832 |
| GL16 | 315 | 1,188 |
| GL17 | 274 | 2,432 |
| GL19 | 271 | 1,444 |
| GL2 | 211 | 2,011 |
| NP16 | 148 | 592 |
| HR8 | 23 | 86 |
| HR9 | 6 | 23 |
Nearby in the ranking
Forest of Deancouncil view Rother Valley2,518 installationsNorth East Cambridgeshire2,501 installationsRutland and Melton2,497 installationsSelby and Ainsty2,474 installationsNorth Norfolk2,456 installationsSouth Holland and The Deepings2,439 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)