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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Preston

547 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 2,435 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 538 of 633 and accounts for 0.06% of every FIT installation in the country.

547installations
2,435 kWinstalled capacity
538of 633 constituencies
2013busiest year, 100 installed

When they went up

Preston peaked in 2013, later than the national peak of 2011.

0 50 100 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Preston by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic547

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic480
Non Domestic (Commercial)62
Non Domestic (Industrial)3
Community2

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
PR2 3731,627
PR1 174808

Nearby in the ranking

Prestoncouncil view Birmingham- Selly Oak551 installationsEast Dunbartonshire551 installationsStretford and Urmston551 installationsAberdeen North546 installationsCarshalton and Wallington537 installationsWolverhampton South West536 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)