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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Penistone and Stocksbridge
1,831 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 8,086 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 149 of 633 and accounts for 0.21% of every FIT installation in the country.
1,831installations
8,086 kWinstalled capacity
149of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 499 installed
When they went up
Like most of the country, Penistone and Stocksbridge front-loaded: the busiest year was 2011, before the tariff cuts began to bite.
What is installed
| Technology | Installations |
|---|---|
| Photovoltaic | 1,801 |
| Wind | 28 |
| Hydro | 2 |
Domestic and everything else
| Installation type | Installations |
|---|---|
| Domestic | 1,781 |
| Non Domestic (Commercial) | 47 |
| Community | 2 |
| 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.
| District | Installations | Capacity kW |
|---|---|---|
| S36 | 649 | 3,085 |
| S35 | 646 | 2,444 |
| S75 | 464 | 2,060 |
| S70 | 30 | 84 |
| S5 | 25 | 85 |
| HD9 | 9 | 213 |
| HD8 | 6 | 102 |
Nearby in the ranking
Barnsleycouncil view Eddisbury1,834 installationsBuckingham1,834 installationsShrewsbury and Atcham1,831 installationsNorth East Bedfordshire1,830 installationsStockton North1,823 installationsNorthampton South1,819 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)