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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Penrith and The Border
2,543 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 19,375 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 63 of 633 and accounts for 0.29% of every FIT installation in the country.
2,543installations
19,375 kWinstalled capacity
63of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 650 installed
When they went up
Like most of the country, Penrith and The Border front-loaded: the busiest year was 2011, before the tariff cuts began to bite.
What is installed
| Technology | Installations |
|---|---|
| Photovoltaic | 2,474 |
| Wind | 52 |
| Hydro | 9 |
| Anaerobic digestion | 8 |
Domestic and everything else
| Installation type | Installations |
|---|---|
| Domestic | 2,364 |
| Non Domestic (Commercial) | 156 |
| Community | 12 |
| Non Domestic (Industrial) | 11 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CA10 | 499 | 2,606 |
| CA11 | 465 | 6,371 |
| CA6 | 430 | 3,953 |
| CA16 | 259 | 1,327 |
| CA8 | 254 | 1,179 |
| CA7 | 189 | 1,239 |
| CA4 | 168 | 1,485 |
| CA17 | 134 | 569 |
| CA9 | 77 | 383 |
| CA3 | 24 | 79 |
| CA5 | 21 | 94 |
| CA12 | 16 | 54 |
Nearby in the ranking
Edencouncil view South West Norfolk2,584 installationsWest Worcestershire2,570 installationsCamborne and Redruth2,558 installationsPreseli Pembrokeshire2,528 installationsRother Valley2,518 installationsNorth East Cambridgeshire2,501 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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