Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which bioenergy installations (a) have and (b) have not achieved greenhouse gas savings of at least 70 per cent compared to the fossil fuels comparators.

Those installations supplying greater than 50kW of energy from bioliquids have been required to comply with the Renewable Energy Directive sustainability criteria since 2011. The average GHG emissions saving of bioliquids reported to Ofgem in the year 2012-2013 was 84.7%.

In addition, the UK Government is bringing in tough new sustainability criteria for those supplying energy and power from biomass and biogas.

Initially these were introduced as reporting requirements from April 2014. Next year we are introducing a mandatory 69% greenhouse gas saving1 requirement. All information on these savings will be published by Ofgem.

[1] compared to coal