ownergy

Home › In your area › Constituency › Harwich and North Essex

Solar and the feed-in tariff in Harwich and North Essex

2,704 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 18,659 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 51 of 633 and accounts for 0.31% of every FIT installation in the country.

2,704installations
18,659 kWinstalled capacity
51of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 588 installed

When they went up

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

0 294 588 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Harwich and North Essex by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic2,665
Wind36
Anaerobic digestion2
Hydro1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic2,602
Non Domestic (Commercial)96
Community4
Non Domestic (Industrial)2

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
CO7 8624,457
CO5 5361,905
CO6 4472,718
CO12 3181,468
CO11 2706,839
CO4 126762
CO3 57162
CO16 41207
CO2 36107
CO8 1134

Nearby in the ranking

Colchestercouncil view Banff and Buchan2,753 installationsTruro and Falmouth2,742 installationsStroud2,707 installationsWells2,699 installationsWest Suffolk2,695 installationsBroadland2,695 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)