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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Hitchin and Harpenden

1,188 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 9,121 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 340 of 633 and accounts for 0.14% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,188installations
9,121 kWinstalled capacity
340of 633 constituencies
2012busiest year, 380 installed

When they went up

Like most of the country, Hitchin and Harpenden front-loaded: the busiest year was 2012, before the tariff cuts began to bite.

0 190 380 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Hitchin and Harpenden by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,185
Wind3

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,149
Non Domestic (Commercial)35
Community4

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
SG4 4081,689
SG5 265954
AL5 2341,068
AL4 172555
AL3 55373
SG1 30117
LU2 234,361

Nearby in the ranking

North Hertfordshirecouncil view Livingston1,196 installationsEasington1,195 installationsTelford1,189 installationsNorwich South1,176 installationsGreat Grimsby1,176 installationsFilton and Bradley Stoke1,175 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)