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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Maidstone and The Weald

1,384 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 7,819 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 271 of 633 and accounts for 0.16% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,384installations
7,819 kWinstalled capacity
271of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 350 installed

When they went up

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

0 175 350 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Installations commissioned in Maidstone and The Weald by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,381
Wind1
Hydro1
Anaerobic digestion1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,305
Non Domestic (Commercial)66
Community10
Non Domestic (Industrial)3

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
ME16 3461,233
ME15 3441,528
TN12 2271,451
ME14 205743
TN17 1332,111
ME17 81490
ME18 46255

Nearby in the ranking

Maidstonecouncil view Mole Valley1,396 installationsTatton1,393 installationsPontypridd1,388 installationsDenton and Reddish1,379 installationsMid Derbyshire1,378 installationsCardiff South and Penarth1,376 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)