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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Isle of Wight
3,140 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 42,303 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 27 of 633 and accounts for 0.36% of every FIT installation in the country.
3,140installations
42,303 kWinstalled capacity
27of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 1,063 installed
When they went up
Like most of the country, Isle of Wight front-loaded: the busiest year was 2011, before the tariff cuts began to bite.
What is installed
| Technology | Installations |
|---|---|
| Photovoltaic | 3,137 |
| Wind | 3 |
Domestic and everything else
| Installation type | Installations |
|---|---|
| Domestic | 3,068 |
| Non Domestic (Commercial) | 58 |
| Community | 8 |
| Non Domestic (Industrial) | 6 |
Postcode districts
Districts with five or more installations. Below five we publish nothing, because a count that small starts to identify individual houses.
| District | Installations | Capacity kW |
|---|---|---|
| PO30 | 650 | 28,527 |
| PO36 | 467 | 1,516 |
| PO33 | 460 | 1,740 |
| PO38 | 452 | 1,524 |
| PO31 | 270 | 955 |
| PO32 | 201 | 523 |
| PO40 | 172 | 739 |
| PO37 | 142 | 504 |
| PO35 | 107 | 334 |
| PO41 | 101 | 5,564 |
| PO34 | 62 | 200 |
| PO39 | 56 | 178 |
Nearby in the ranking
Isle of Wightcouncil view Somerton and Frome3,245 installationsSuffolk Coastal3,202 installationsSt Austell and Newquay3,188 installationsBoston and Skegness3,137 installationsMonmouth3,136 installationsBerwickshire- Roxburgh and Selkirk3,110 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.
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