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 23 January 2017 to Question 60586, what recent assessment he has made of the likelihood of the UK failing to meet its 15 per cent renewable target by 2020; and if he will make a statement.

The UK is currently in line with the trajectory set out in the Renewable Energy Directive, having met the Directive’s interim targets for 2011/12 and 2013/14.

We are making good progress towards the next interim target, requiring an average of 7.47% of energy to come from renewables across 2015 and 2016. In 2015 alone 8.3% of energy came from renewable sources.