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Solar and the feed-in tariff in South Dorset

1,780 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 18,013 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 162 of 633 and accounts for 0.20% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,780installations
18,013 kWinstalled capacity
162of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 686 installed

When they went up

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

0 343 686 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in South Dorset by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,770
Wind6
Hydro4

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,727
Non Domestic (Commercial)42
Community7
Non Domestic (Industrial)4

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
DT4 4561,500
DT3 4401,855
BH19 2841,162
BH20 2696,348
DT5 194940
DT2 1356,191

Nearby in the ranking

Dorsetcouncil view Perth and North Perthshire1,786 installationsNorth West Norfolk1,783 installationsDaventry1,782 installationsNorth East Hampshire1,778 installationsInverness- Nairn- Badenoch and Strathspey1,777 installationsStratford-on-Avon1,774 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)