Renewable Energy

(asked on 14th April 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2022 to Question 144990 on Ofgem, whether his Department has taken account of the time taken to publish the Strategy and Policy Statement to Ofgem, outlined in the Energy White Paper, on potential grid investment to support renewable energy and low carbon technologies.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 26th April 2022

The Strategy and Policy Statement is intended to give a strategic steer to the regulator on the Government’s priorities. This will give further weight to Ofgem’s statutory objectives including achieving Net Zero by supporting low carbon technologies. Ahead of this, Government welcomed Ofgem’s regulatory response to the Net Zero target, including publication of its Decarbonisation Action Plan, asking network companies to show how their price control business plans could adapt to support Net Zero and consideration of how to set price controls to advance decarbonisation goals.

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