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Solar and the feed-in tariff in North Cornwall
4,103 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 94,618 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 6 of 633 and accounts for 0.47% of every FIT installation in the country.
4,103installations
94,618 kWinstalled capacity
6of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 1,091 installed
When they went up
Like most of the country, North Cornwall front-loaded: the busiest year was 2011, before the tariff cuts began to bite.
What is installed
| Technology | Installations |
|---|---|
| Photovoltaic | 3,917 |
| Wind | 180 |
| Hydro | 6 |
Domestic and everything else
| Installation type | Installations |
|---|---|
| Domestic | 3,693 |
| Non Domestic (Commercial) | 367 |
| Community | 25 |
| Non Domestic (Industrial) | 18 |
Postcode districts
Districts with five or more installations. Below five we publish nothing, because a count that small starts to identify individual houses.
| District | Installations | Capacity kW |
|---|---|---|
| PL15 | 825 | 19,801 |
| EX23 | 680 | 22,135 |
| PL27 | 672 | 10,729 |
| PL30 | 582 | 6,465 |
| PL31 | 401 | 18,650 |
| PL32 | 237 | 6,833 |
| PL28 | 200 | 913 |
| EX22 | 100 | 2,578 |
| PL17 | 93 | 4,816 |
| PL33 | 91 | 578 |
| PL34 | 84 | 506 |
| PL29 | 80 | 240 |
| PL35 | 52 | 305 |
| PL26 | 6 | 70 |
Nearby in the ranking
Cornwallcouncil view North West Cambridgeshire4,354 installationsStirling4,329 installationsTiverton and Honiton4,146 installationsTorridge and West Devon3,969 installationsWashington and Sunderland West3,897 installationsCentral Devon3,864 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.
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