Renewable Energy
(asked on 17th December 2014) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much renewable electricity capacity is projected to come online before 2020.
The Electricity Market Reform Delivery Plan [1], published in December 2013, outlined the following projections for renewable electricity capacity in 2020 split by technology. All the values given are in gigawatts.
Technology | 2020 |
Advanced Conversion Technologies (with or without CHP) | c.0.2-0.3 |
Anaerobic Digestion (with or without CHP) (>5 MW) | c.0.3-0.4 |
Biomass Conversion | 1.7 – 3.4 |
Dedicated Biomass (with CHP) | c. 0.3-0.6 |
Energy from Waste (with CHP) | c. 0.4 |
Geothermal (with or without CHP) | < 0.1 |
Hydro (>5 MW) | c. 1.7 |
Landfill Gas | c. 0.9 |
Offshore Wind | 8 – 15 |
Onshore Wind (>5 MW) | 11-13 |
Sewage Gas | c. 0.2 |
Large-Scale Solar Photo-Voltaic (>5 MW) | 2.4 – 4 |
Tidal Stream | c. 0.1 |
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