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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Gainsborough

2,777 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 31,907 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 46 of 633 and accounts for 0.32% of every FIT installation in the country.

2,777installations
31,907 kWinstalled capacity
46of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 628 installed

When they went up

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

0 314 628 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Gainsborough by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic2,739
Wind30
Anaerobic digestion8

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic2,592
Non Domestic (Commercial)169
Non Domestic (Industrial)10
Community6

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
DN21 8749,243
LN8 5138,544
LN2 3772,247
LN1 3466,379
LN3 3181,760
LN7 2301,839
DN41 41212
DN38 35234
DN37 25957
DN20 13472
DN17 522

Nearby in the ranking

West Lindseycouncil view West Dorset2,821 installationsLouth and Horncastle2,814 installationsEast Devon2,799 installationsSouth West Devon2,774 installationsBanff and Buchan2,753 installationsTruro and Falmouth2,742 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)