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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of the findings of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance study, Beyond the tipping point: flexibility gaps in future high-renewable energy systems in the UK, Germany and the Nordics.

The Department takes into account a wide range of information and evidence in setting the Government’s energy policies, and we welcome this and other recent reports on the renewables sector. Our recent Clean Growth Strategy sets out policies and proposals for continuing to expand the low carbon electricity sector. In addition, our Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan outlines a range of measures that the Government, Ofgem and industry are taking to enable the transition to a smarter, more flexible energy system.