Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he expects the amount of renewable energy generated in 2017 to be greater than that produced in 2016.

Final figures for renewable electricity generation will not be available until 2018. However, the most recent statistics show renewable electricity generation for the first two quarters of 2017 combined was 47.5 terawatt hours, an increase of 9.4 percent on the 43.4 terawatt hours generated in the same period of 2016. (Source: Energy Trends, September 2017)

For renewable heat, the Department has not yet received complete data for 2017, however for the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive the total heat generated and paid for in 2016 was 6,041 gigawatt hours. So far in 2017 (up to the end of October) the Non-Domestic Scheme has supported 6,379 gigawatt hours of generated heat.

Payments in the Domestic scheme are paid on deemed heat, rather than metered. The number of accredited installations up to end October 2017 is 7,007. This is slightly lower than the same period in 2016, where there were 7,351 accredited applications.

The Department publishes data on both renewable heat schemes on a monthly basis: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rhi-deployment-data-october-2017