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The Feed-in Tariff for wind, hydro and other technologies
Almost everything written about the Feed-in Tariff assumes solar panels. For tens of thousands of installations that is the wrong guide, so this is the one for the rest.
Where they sit. 860,477 of the installations on the register are solar PV, but 9,330 are not: 7,508 wind, 1,284 hydro, 439 anaerobic digestion and 99 micro-CHP. They are on the same scheme, with the same export rules, but their own tariffs and often their own term lengths.
Same scheme, different tariff
The structure is identical to solar. Your generation tariff was set by your eligibility date and your capacity band, it is index-linked and revised every financial year, and it runs for a fixed term. What differs is the number: each technology has its own tariff table, so a wind or hydro rate is not a solar rate, and comparing yours against a neighbour's solar figure tells you nothing.
The full published table, technology by technology, is on the rates page.
Terms tend to run longer
Feed-in Tariff terms run between 10 and 25 years. Domestic solar clustered around 20 and 25 years, but hydro in particular was frequently accredited on the longest terms, which is part of why 1,284 hydro schemes, a small number, represent a disproportionate share of the scheme's long-lived generation. Your own term is on your accreditation and your FIT statement, and what happens when your tariff ends applies in exactly the same way.
Export works the same way
The export side is scheme-wide, not technology-specific. You are on deemed or metered export like everyone else, and when your term ends the Smart Export Guarantee is the same successor. Wind and hydro that genuinely export more than the deemed assumption are the cases where a metered arrangement is most worth examining, because unlike a domestic roof they can generate around the clock.
Anaerobic digestion and micro-CHP are mostly non-domestic, so if that is you, the commercial page and the tax treatment of a business installation matter more than the domestic guides do.
We hold the counts and the published tariff tables, not your accreditation. For a non-solar installation especially, the figure that governs you is the one on your own paperwork, because the bands are narrower and there are fewer neighbours to compare against.
Technology counts from the Ofgem Feed-in Tariff installation report of 2025-12-31. Tariffs by technology are from the Ofgem FIT tariff table for 2026-27. Information only, and not financial advice.