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Solar and the feed-in tariff in St Austell and Newquay

3,188 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 54,483 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 26 of 633 and accounts for 0.37% of every FIT installation in the country.

3,188installations
54,483 kWinstalled capacity
26of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 850 installed

When they went up

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

0 425 850 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in St Austell and Newquay by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic3,138
Wind48
Anaerobic digestion1
Hydro1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic2,976
Non Domestic (Commercial)169
Community25
Non Domestic (Industrial)18

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
PL26 1,00420,921
PL25 6243,355
TR7 5752,229
TR8 29818,350
PL24 2571,017
TR9 2542,409
PL23 101676
TR2 424,947
PL30 33580

Nearby in the ranking

Cornwallcouncil view Totnes3,256 installationsSomerton and Frome3,245 installationsSuffolk Coastal3,202 installationsIsle of Wight3,140 installationsBoston and Skegness3,137 installationsMonmouth3,136 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)