Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the value was of subsidies to onshore wind energy providers in each of the last three years.

Onshore wind has received support over the past three years from the Renewables Obligation (RO) and the Feed-in Tariff (FITs) schemes.

The cost of supporting onshore wind through the RO in 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 was as follows (figures not adjusted for inflation):

Outturn data is not yet available for spend in 2014/15, but we would expect an increase in the total level of support for onshore wind as there was a higher level deployment.

Some small-scale onshore wind was supported by the FIT, but FIT costs are not available disaggregated by technology.