Renewable Energy: Feed-in Tariffs

(asked on 9th October 2015) - View Source

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of reducing the Feed in Tariff on the ability of the UK to meet its renewable energy targets.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
This question was answered on 14th October 2015

We are on track to exceed our target of generating more than 30% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

The Feed-in Tariff has been extremely successful in deploying renewable energy sources. We have already exceeded our 2020/21 projections for wind, hydro, and anaerobic digestion under the scheme and, even with the action proposed in the consultation, we will be within the range of our solar projections.

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