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Solar and the feed-in tariff in South West Devon

2,774 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 26,373 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 47 of 633 and accounts for 0.32% of every FIT installation in the country.

2,774installations
26,373 kWinstalled capacity
47of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 623 installed

When they went up

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

0 312 623 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in South West Devon by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic2,757
Wind12
Hydro4
Anaerobic digestion1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic2,649
Non Domestic (Commercial)85
Non Domestic (Industrial)22
Community18

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
PL7 84013,707
PL9 7952,922
PL21 6232,914
PL8 2885,598
TQ7 125850
PL6 84269
TQ10 1760

Nearby in the ranking

South Hamscouncil view Louth and Horncastle2,814 installationsEast Devon2,799 installationsGainsborough2,777 installationsBanff and Buchan2,753 installationsTruro and Falmouth2,742 installationsStroud2,707 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)