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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Scarborough and Whitby

1,623 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 6,829 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 210 of 633 and accounts for 0.19% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,623installations
6,829 kWinstalled capacity
210of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 327 installed

When they went up

Like most of the country, Scarborough and Whitby front-loaded: the busiest year was 2011, before the tariff cuts began to bite.

0 164 327 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Scarborough and Whitby by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,601
Wind21
Hydro1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,556
Non Domestic (Commercial)63
Community3
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.

DistrictInstallationsCapacity kW
YO12 4641,947
YO21 3411,178
YO13 2771,411
YO11 2621,029
YO22 204916
TS13 61204
YO14 14145

Nearby in the ranking

Scarboroughcouncil view The Cotswolds1,634 installationsNorth East Fife1,630 installationsSouth Shields1,627 installationsHartlepool1,623 installationsHenley1,618 installationsSedgefield1,618 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)