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Energy: Renewables

Answer

The figure of, "““over 170 applications in the planning process””," that I quoted in my Statement on the energy White Paper on 23 May related to wind farm applications in the local planning process and was provided bythe British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) in March 2007. My department also maintains figures on the number of renewable applications in the planning system on the RESTATS website www.restats.org.uk. This information is updated quarterly and breaks down applications by type of renewable technology and country. As at March 2007 the website was showing that there are 243 renewable applications of all technology types being considered in the planning process. I am providing a table detailing the number of applications on the RESTATS website by country and technology.

Renewable energy applications held in the planning process—May 2007
	England		Northern Ireland		Scotland		Wales
Technology Band	Number of schemes	Capacity MWe	Number of schemes	Capacity MWe	Number of schemes	Capacity MWe	Number of schemes	Capacity MWe
Biomass- dedicated	4	34.6	0	-	3	79	1	350	-
Hydro	0	0	0	0	8	25	2	0.9	-
Landfill Gas	8	13	1	1.5	0	0	0	0	-
Municipal and Industrial Waste	8	328.6	1	6.7	0	0	1	5.2	-
Wind Offshore	6	1,875	0	0	0	0	1	750	-
Wind Onshore	54	1,170.2	53	1,179.5	81	5,373.7	11	236.7	-
TOTAL Schemes	80	-	55	-	92	-	16	-	243
Total Capacity	-	3,421.4	-	1,187.7	-	5,477.7	-	1,342.8	11,429.6

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

4004; 692 c218-20WA

Session

2006-07

Related items

Energy White Paper
Wednesday, 23 May 2007
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Lords

Subjects

Planning permission Renewable energy

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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