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Solar and the feed-in tariff in North Dorset
2,270 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 24,367 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 84 of 633 and accounts for 0.26% of every FIT installation in the country.
2,270installations
24,367 kWinstalled capacity
84of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 818 installed
When they went up
Like most of the country, North Dorset front-loaded: the busiest year was 2011, before the tariff cuts began to bite.
What is installed
| Technology | Installations |
|---|---|
| Photovoltaic | 2,254 |
| Wind | 6 |
| Anaerobic digestion | 5 |
| Hydro | 5 |
Domestic and everything else
| Installation type | Installations |
|---|---|
| Domestic | 2,161 |
| Non Domestic (Commercial) | 93 |
| Non Domestic (Industrial) | 10 |
| Community | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| DT11 | 588 | 3,671 |
| SP8 | 422 | 2,195 |
| DT10 | 354 | 3,292 |
| SP7 | 287 | 6,733 |
| BH21 | 246 | 1,915 |
| BH31 | 242 | 900 |
| SP6 | 53 | 5,157 |
| SP5 | 30 | 226 |
| DT2 | 22 | 111 |
| DT9 | 15 | 68 |
| BH16 | 8 | 41 |
Nearby in the ranking
Dorsetcouncil view Wrexham2,284 installationsLewes2,272 installationsSouth West Wiltshire2,272 installationsCarmarthen East and Dinefwr2,252 installationsGrantham and Stamford2,249 installationsBlackley and Broughton2,248 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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