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Solar and the feed-in tariff in Wigan

1,066 installations are accredited under the Feed-in Tariff here, holding 3,620 kW of capacity. That ranks the constituency 368 of 633 and accounts for 0.12% of every FIT installation in the country.

1,066installations
3,620 kWinstalled capacity
368of 633 constituencies
2012busiest year, 499 installed

When they went up

Like most of the country, Wigan front-loaded: the busiest year was 2012, before the tariff cuts began to bite.

0 250 499 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Installations commissioned in Wigan by year. Ofgem Feed-in Tariff register, 2025-12-31.

What is installed

TechnologyInstallations
Photovoltaic1,065
Wind1

Domestic and everything else

Installation typeInstallations
Domestic1,046
Non Domestic (Commercial)18
Non Domestic (Industrial)1
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
WN5 3271,161
WN2 242844
WN6 242794
WN1 205653
WN3 50167

Nearby in the ranking

Wigancouncil view Fylde1,080 installationsDartford1,074 installationsBracknell1,070 installationsRayleigh and Wickford1,060 installationsBradford South1,059 installationsCarlisle1,059 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)