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Written question asked by Mark Simmonds (Conservative) on Tuesday, 16 November 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 18 November 2010. It was answered by Charles Hendry (Conservative) on Tuesday, 30 November 2010 on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Renewable Energy

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much funding from the public purse his Department has allocated to the development of (a) biofuel, (b) biomass, (c) hydroelectricity, (d) solar energy, (e) tidal power, (f) wave power and (g) wind power in each of the last three years; and how much such funding he plans to allocate in each year of the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
Answer

The following amounts were spent on support for the development of biofuel, bioenergy, hydroelectricity, solar energy, tidal power, wave power and wind power technologies through the Environmental Transformation Fund and Low Carbon Innovation Funding over the last three financial years.

Spend (£ million)
2007-08 2008-09 2009-10
(a) Advanced Biofuels — — 1.0
(b) Bioenergy including Biomass 6.9 14.7 10.8
(e) and (f) Wave and Tidal Power 0.7 0.7 9.3
(g) Offshore Wind 12.7 2.4 2.0
Low Carbon Buildings Programme (Capital) 6.0 12.4 36.6

The Low Carbon Buildings Programme (LCBP) funds deployment of renewable microgeneration technologies including biomass, hydro, solar energy and wind. Figures for spend from 2006-09 by calendar year are set out in the following table.

Spend (£)
2006 2007 2008 2009
(b) Wood Fuelled Boilers 14,602 157,649 261,952 590,633
(g) Wind Turbines 76,949 1,129,918 649,011 1,142,520
(d) Solar Thermal 103,552 1,405,776 1,307,853 2,815,253
(d) Solar PV 156,778 3,934,422 6,129,489 12,894,930
(c) Small Scale Hydro 0 13,000 2,500 128,522
(b) Biomass Stoves 0 102,001 336,461 678,062

2010-11 budgets are as follows.

Spend (£ million)
2010-11
(a) Advanced Biofuels 0.5
(b) Bioenergy including Biomass 5.3
(e) and (f) Wave and Tidal Power 21.0
(g) Offshore Wind 16.2
Low Carbon Buildings Programme (Capital) 37.1

The Office for Renewable Energy Deployment (ORED) has also undertaken activity to reduce barriers to deployment across the range of renewable technologies.The spending review announcement included over £200 million to support the development of innovative energy technologies, of which up to £60 million has been earmarked for offshore wind manufacturing infrastructure at port locations. The Government are currently developing its detailed plans for the allocation of the remainder of this funding.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
25281; 519 c673-4W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Renewable energy
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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