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Written question asked by Catherine West (Labour) on Thursday, 10 March 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 14 March 2016. It was answered by Andrea Leadsom (Conservative) on Wednesday, 16 March 2016 on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Housing: Energy

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much funding the Government allocated to incentivising installation of (a) solar panels and (b) home insulation in each year since 2010.

Answer

Solar panels have primarily been incentivised to date through two schemes: the Renewables Obligation, which typically supports larger installations, and the Feed-in Tariff, which supports smaller projects.

The value of the Renewables Obligation for solar PV in each year since 2010 is show in the following table:

Financial Year

Renewables Obligation PV scheme value, £m (nominal)

2010-11

£0.2

2011-12

£0.1

2012-13

£0.9

2013-14

£34.9

2014-15

£133.9

A proxy for the total spend each year on all eligible technologies is given by the size of the Levelisation fund. The size of this fund and solar PV’s share of total FiTs capacity is shown in the following table:

Financial Year

Levelisation fund (nominal)

% solar PV share of total FIT capacity

2010-11

£14,435,325

69.7

2011-12

£150,756,064

90.0

2012-13

£506,328,139

86.4

2013-14

£690,991,283

84.3

2014-15

£865,553,975

81.6

It should be noted that the percentage share of capacity does not necessarily equate to the percentage share of total spend under the scheme.

No payments have yet been made to solar PV generating stations under Contracts for Difference (CfDs), although three solar PV projects signed CfDs following the first allocation round.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
30733
Session
2015-16
Subjects
Housing Energy Insulation Solar power Renewables obligation
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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