Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Alan Simpson (Labour), on Thursday, 29 October 2009, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 95 members in total.

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FEED-IN TARIFFS AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

That this House underlines the importance of demonstrating a strong commitment to policies to tackle climate change in the run-up to negotiations in Copenhagen; reiterates its welcome for the inclusion of feed-in tariff legislation in the Energy Act 2008; notes the strong support for this legislation from a wide variety of businesses, environmental, consumer and fuel poverty groups, trade unions, farmers and social landlords; further notes the huge technical potential for sub-5 megawatt decentralised renewable technologies to deliver up to one third of the UK's electricity; believes that decentralised energy could make a considerable contribution to cutting the UK's carbon emissions, tackling fuel poverty, increasing energy security and generating green jobs; is concerned that tariffs proposed for the Government's Clean Energy Cashback scheme will mean decentralised renewable electricity is anticipated to contribute just two per cent. of the UK's electricity by 2020; considers this to be a wholly inadequate level of ambition; supports calls for a suitably ambitious tariff which delivers a significantly higher return on investment; and therefore calls on the Government to revise the proposed tariffs substantially, to increase the level of ambition of the scheme and offer communities, households and businesses a significant role in driving UK renewable energy deployment.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2196 

Session

2008-09

Other sponsors

Peter Ainsworth

Simon Hughes

Adam Price

Mark Durkan

Mike Weir

Subjects

Renewable energy

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk