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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Leicester South

1,101 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 4,087 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 358 of 633 and accounts for 0.13% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,101installations
4,087 kWinstalled capacity
358of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 375 installed

When they went up

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

0 188 375 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Leicester South by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,099
Wind2

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,070
Non Domestic (Commercial)25
Non Domestic (Industrial)3
Community3

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
LE2 9763,392
LE5 107410
LE1 18286

Nearby in the ranking

Leicestercouncil view Guildford1,121 installationsSouth Thanet1,114 installationsReading East1,108 installationsNorth Ayrshire and Arran1,097 installationsLinlithgow and East Falkirk1,094 installationsWoking1,093 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)