Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many representations his Department has received from the geothermal industry suggesting or requesting changes to trespass laws; and if he will publish those representations.

The Department has received a number of representations through the Renewable Energy Association (REA) on the underground access required for geothermal schemes, including representations through letters, meetings, and the Government’s ‘Consultation on Proposal for Underground Access for the Extraction of Gas, Oil or Geothermal Energy’.