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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Leicester West

1,935 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 9,917 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 130 of 633 and accounts for 0.22% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,935installations
9,917 kWinstalled capacity
130of 633 constituencies
2012busiest year, 884 installed

When they went up

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

0 442 884 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Leicester West by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,934
Anaerobic digestion1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,893
Non Domestic (Commercial)34
Non Domestic (Industrial)4
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
LE3 1,1254,298
LE4 7755,199
LE2 33170

Nearby in the ranking

Leicestercouncil view Gordon1,942 installationsMiddlesbrough South and East Cleveland1,942 installationsTewkesbury1,939 installationsNormanton- Pontefract and Castleford1,923 installationsNorth West Durham1,921 installationsMoray1,920 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)