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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Leigh

1,367 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 6,699 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 278 of 633 and accounts for 0.16% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,367installations
6,699 kWinstalled capacity
278of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 346 installed

When they went up

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

0 173 346 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Leigh by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,366
Wind1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,330
Non Domestic (Commercial)35
Non Domestic (Industrial)2

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
WN7 6453,632
WA3 3371,552
M29 2561,098
M46 65232
M28 59163

Nearby in the ranking

Wigancouncil view Rotherham1,376 installationsNewcastle-under-Lyme1,374 installationsLoughborough1,371 installationsSittingbourne and Sheppey1,366 installationsYork Central1,365 installationsGosport1,362 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)