Microgeneration

(asked on 30th June 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Matthew Pennycook Portrait
Matthew Pennycook
(Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of UK energy was supplied by microgeneration in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
This question was answered on 7th July 2015

DECC does not routinely produce figures specifically for energy supplied by micro-generation technologies (defined as electricity schemes of up to 50 kW of capacity, and heat up to 45 kW). The table below shows an estimate of energy generated by renewable micro-generation (and a small amount of, non-renewable, micro CHP) under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), the Great Britain Feed in Tariff (FiT) scheme and the Renewables Obligation (RO) (including Northern Ireland). It does not therefore include micro-generation from the majority of non-renewable sources. This is compared with total UK energy production for the corresponding financial years, beginning with 2010/11, the first year of the FiT scheme.

RHI heat generation (up to 45 kW schemes only)

(GWh)

FiTs electricity generation

(up to 50 kW schemes only)

(GWh)

RO electricity generation

(up to 50 kW schemes only)

(GWh)

Total renewable energy micro-generation (GWh)

Total energy production (GWh)

Renewable Micro-generation proportion of energy production

2010/11

49

8

57

1,792,507

0.00%

2011/12

0.0

393

13

406

1,545,549

0.03%

2012/13

3.3

1,253

34

1,290

1,385,757

0.09%

2013/14

11.0

1,920

44

1,975

1,337,335

0.15%

Notes:

FiTs covers installations up to 5 MW, so overall generation figures for these schemes have been adjusted by the proportion of micro-generation within overall FiTs capacity at the end of each year.

FiTs and RO data are not yet available for 2014/15, so that year has not been included.

Source:

Feed in Tariffs data from FiTs annual reports, available at:

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/feed-tariff-fit-scheme/feed-tariff-reports/annual-reports

Feed in Tariffs deployment data, available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/monthly-small-scale-renewable-deployment

Renewables Obligation generation data from table ET 6.3, available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-section-6-renewables

Total energy production from table ET 1.1, available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/total-energy-section-1-energy-trends

RHI statistics are published monthly and are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-heat-incentive-renewable-heat-premium-payment-statistics.

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