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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Houghton and Sunderland South

3,293 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 8,905 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 22 of 633 and accounts for 0.38% of every FIT installation in the country.

3,293installations
8,905 kWinstalled capacity
22of 633 constituencies
2015busiest year, 1,013 installed

When they went up

Houghton and Sunderland South peaked in 2015, later than the national peak of 2011.

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Installations commissioned in Houghton and Sunderland South by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic3,290
Wind3

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic3,271
Non Domestic (Commercial)17
Community4
Non Domestic (Industrial)1

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
DH4 1,2993,340
SR3 8582,764
DH5 8272,058
SR4 281648
SR2 2791

Nearby in the ranking

Sunderlandcouncil view South East Cornwall3,334 installationsColchester3,328 installationsMid Norfolk3,319 installationsTotnes3,256 installationsSomerton and Frome3,245 installationsSuffolk Coastal3,202 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)