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Solar and the feed-in tariff in North East Somerset
1,689 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 16,513 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 192 of 633 and accounts for 0.19% of every FIT installation in the country.
1,689installations
16,513 kWinstalled capacity
192of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 637 installed
When they went up
Like most of the country, North East Somerset front-loaded: the busiest year was 2011, before the tariff cuts began to bite.
What is installed
| Technology | Installations |
|---|---|
| Photovoltaic | 1,680 |
| Hydro | 4 |
| Wind | 4 |
| Anaerobic digestion | 1 |
Domestic and everything else
| Installation type | Installations |
|---|---|
| Domestic | 1,615 |
| Non Domestic (Commercial) | 48 |
| Community | 22 |
| Non Domestic (Industrial) | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BA2 | 407 | 1,874 |
| BA3 | 341 | 1,800 |
| BS39 | 335 | 9,146 |
| BS31 | 289 | 1,314 |
| BS40 | 177 | 1,749 |
| BA1 | 99 | 427 |
| BS14 | 37 | 140 |
Nearby in the ranking
Bath and North East Somersetcouncil view New Forest East1,695 installationsArgyll and Bute1,690 installationsMid Bedfordshire1,689 installationsYnys Môn1,685 installationsBarnsley Central1,684 installationsChorley1,680 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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