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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Makerfield

1,267 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 4,921 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 313 of 633 and accounts for 0.15% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,267installations
4,921 kWinstalled capacity
313of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 433 installed

When they went up

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

0 217 433 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Makerfield by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,266
Wind1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,251
Non Domestic (Commercial)15
Non Domestic (Industrial)1

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
WN2 5072,214
WN4 4031,250
WN3 2761,103
WN5 79348

Nearby in the ranking

Wigancouncil view Bridgend1,272 installationsTunbridge Wells1,270 installationsRedditch1,270 installationsTonbridge and Malling1,262 installationsWyre Forest1,261 installationsRugby1,258 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)