Sheffield leads the way in feed-in tariff installations

Leeds and Bristol also on the podium as UK's micro-generation capacity rises 400 per cent since subsidy scheme began, reports Business Green.

Just under 161MW of capacity was added across the country from April 2010, when the scheme started, to the end of June this year, according to Ofgem data compiled by analysts AEA.

Applications for 44,460 separate installations have been made, three quarters of which were solar PV systems. Solar systems below 4kW dominate, although several large plants commissioned just before the end of July, when feed-in tariff rates decreased, are still to be registered.

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