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Solar and the feed-in tariff in North West Durham

1,921 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 12,475 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 132 of 633 and accounts for 0.22% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,921installations
12,475 kWinstalled capacity
132of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 402 installed

When they went up

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

0 201 402 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in North West Durham by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,889
Wind29
Anaerobic digestion2
Hydro1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,831
Non Domestic (Commercial)82
Non Domestic (Industrial)4
Community4

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
DH8 8254,839
DL15 4524,168
DL13 2481,574
DH7 236933
NE16 80410
DH9 39134
NE39 18138
DL14 14249
NE17 827

Nearby in the ranking

County Durhamcouncil view Tewkesbury1,939 installationsLeicester West1,935 installationsNormanton- Pontefract and Castleford1,923 installationsMoray1,920 installationsDerbyshire Dales1,912 installationsOchil and South Perthshire1,906 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)