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Solar and the feed-in tariff in South Leicestershire

1,617 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 14,394 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 214 of 633 and accounts for 0.19% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,617installations
14,394 kWinstalled capacity
214of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 289 installed

When they went up

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

0 145 289 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Installations commissioned in South Leicestershire by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,602
Wind13
Anaerobic digestion2

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,549
Non Domestic (Commercial)60
Non Domestic (Industrial)5
Community3

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
LE9 4625,215
LE17 3783,624
LE8 3291,407
LE19 1993,240
LE3 155525
LE2 54245
LE10 37129

Nearby in the ranking

Blabycouncil view Hartlepool1,623 installationsHenley1,618 installationsSedgefield1,618 installationsClacton1,617 installationsStockton South1,614 installationsDwyfor Meirionnydd1,611 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)