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Solar and the feed-in tariff in South Shields

1,627 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 5,120 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 209 of 633 and accounts for 0.19% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,627installations
5,120 kWinstalled capacity
209of 633 constituencies
2015busiest year, 590 installed

When they went up

South Shields peaked in 2015, later than the national peak of 2011.

0 295 590 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in South Shields by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,627

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,558
Non Domestic (Commercial)68
Community1

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
NE34 1,3753,729
NE33 159992
SR6 93398

Nearby in the ranking

South Tynesidecouncil view Salisbury1,638 installationsThe Cotswolds1,634 installationsNorth East Fife1,630 installationsScarborough and Whitby1,623 installationsHartlepool1,623 installationsHenley1,618 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)