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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Washington and Sunderland West

3,897 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 14,863 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 8 of 633 and accounts for 0.45% of every FIT installation in the country.

3,897installations
14,863 kWinstalled capacity
8of 633 constituencies
2015busiest year, 948 installed

When they went up

Washington and Sunderland West peaked in 2015, later than the national peak of 2011.

0 474 948 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Washington and Sunderland West by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic3,895
Wind2

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic3,873
Non Domestic (Commercial)22
Non Domestic (Industrial)2

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
SR5 1,3747,900
NE38 1,1413,419
NE37 8362,177
SR4 4991,216
NE9 3094
DH4 1759

Nearby in the ranking

Sunderlandcouncil view Tiverton and Honiton4,146 installationsNorth Cornwall4,103 installationsTorridge and West Devon3,969 installationsCentral Devon3,864 installationsSouth Norfolk3,751 installationsPlymouth- Moor View3,605 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)