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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Wells
2,699 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 32,566 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 52 of 633 and accounts for 0.31% of every FIT installation in the country.
2,699installations
32,566 kWinstalled capacity
52of 633 constituencies
2011busiest year, 917 installed
When they went up
Like most of the country, Wells front-loaded: the busiest year was 2011, before the tariff cuts began to bite.
What is installed
| Technology | Installations |
|---|---|
| Photovoltaic | 2,686 |
| Wind | 11 |
| Anaerobic digestion | 1 |
| Hydro | 1 |
Domestic and everything else
| Installation type | Installations |
|---|---|
| Domestic | 2,572 |
| Non Domestic (Commercial) | 89 |
| Community | 29 |
| Non Domestic (Industrial) | 9 |
Postcode districts
Districts with five or more installations. Below five we publish nothing, because a count that small starts to identify individual houses.
| District | Installations | Capacity kW |
|---|---|---|
| BA5 | 493 | 2,973 |
| BA6 | 322 | 1,405 |
| TA8 | 321 | 1,171 |
| BA16 | 272 | 1,266 |
| BA4 | 243 | 1,957 |
| BS27 | 217 | 837 |
| TA9 | 214 | 4,115 |
| BS26 | 191 | 960 |
| BA3 | 173 | 1,220 |
| BS28 | 152 | 1,847 |
| BS25 | 55 | 186 |
| BS24 | 30 | 14,512 |
| BS40 | 16 | 118 |
Nearby in the ranking
Mendipcouncil view Truro and Falmouth2,742 installationsStroud2,707 installationsHarwich and North Essex2,704 installationsWest Suffolk2,695 installationsBroadland2,695 installationsNorth Shropshire2,652 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.
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