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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Saffron Walden
2,338 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 13,338 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 78 of 633 and accounts for 0.27% of every FIT installation in the country.
2,338installations
13,338 kWinstalled capacity
78of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 515 installed
When they went up
Like most of the country, Saffron Walden front-loaded: the busiest year was 2011, before the tariff cuts began to bite.
What is installed
| Technology | Installations |
|---|---|
| Photovoltaic | 2,331 |
| Wind | 6 |
| Anaerobic digestion | 1 |
Domestic and everything else
| Installation type | Installations |
|---|---|
| Domestic | 2,222 |
| Non Domestic (Commercial) | 103 |
| Non Domestic (Industrial) | 9 |
| Community | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CM6 | 551 | 4,056 |
| CB11 | 422 | 2,573 |
| CB10 | 326 | 1,362 |
| CM22 | 305 | 1,356 |
| CM3 | 242 | 1,347 |
| CM1 | 231 | 1,607 |
| CM24 | 137 | 358 |
| CM23 | 70 | 345 |
| SG8 | 23 | 94 |
| CM7 | 12 | 93 |
| CB21 | 11 | 36 |
| CM4 | 5 | 25 |
Nearby in the ranking
Uttlesfordcouncil view Doncaster North2,373 installationsStoke-on-Trent North2,370 installationsCorby2,338 installationsCarmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire2,317 installationsCeredigion2,299 installationsWrexham2,284 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)