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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Gower

1,324 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 7,460 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 291 of 633 and accounts for 0.15% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,324installations
7,460 kWinstalled capacity
291of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 426 installed

When they went up

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

0 213 426 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Installations commissioned in Gower by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,322
Wind1
Hydro1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,273
Non Domestic (Commercial)43
Community8

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
SA3 5972,572
SA4 5533,875
SA6 110514
SA2 30153
SA5 19292
SA8 727
SA7 517

Nearby in the ranking

Swanseacouncil view Calder Valley1,337 installationsDover1,332 installationsFaversham and Mid Kent1,327 installationsDarlington1,323 installationsBroxtowe1,321 installationsMaidenhead1,316 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)