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1061129

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of onshore wind sites with planning consent in Wales which could potentially bid in a Contract for Difference auction.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	221806
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>In order to be eligible to compete for a Contract for Difference (CfD) onshore wind projects must, amongst other requirements, be able to demonstrate that they have received planning consent and have an installed capacity greater than 5MW.</p><p> </p><p>The Department tracks the progress of renewable electricity projects in the UK, including onshore wind projects, through the planning system and publishes this data in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), which can be viewed online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 25/02/2019 10:09:55 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1061130

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of new onshore wind installations in Wales in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	221807
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>Onshore wind plants in Wales are supported by either the Renewables Obligation (RO) for installations above 5 MW generation capacity or Feed in Tariff (FITs) for smaller installations. The table below shows the number of plants installed in Wales each year that are supported by each scheme.</p><p> </p><p>RO closed to new applicants from 1 April 2017 with the exception of eligible generators that applied for a grace period.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Wales – onshore wind plants installed in year</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>RO installations</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Capacity (MW)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FITs installations</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Capacity (MW)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total installations</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Capacity (MW)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>9.1</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td><td><p><strong>26</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9.3</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>31.8</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p><strong>51</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>34.1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>43.2</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>5.2</p></td><td><p><strong>148</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>48.4</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>68.1</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>10.1</p></td><td><p><strong>57</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>78.2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>21.9</p></td><td><p><strong>131</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30.0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>22.1</p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p>13.6</p></td><td><p><strong>80</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>35.7</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>248.3</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>17.3</p></td><td><p><strong>68</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>265.5</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>104.0</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>9.4</p></td><td><p><strong>17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>113.4</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>56.8</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p><strong>5</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>58.7</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source: OFGEM ROC register and BEIS sub-regional Feed-in Tariff Statistics.</em></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 25/02/2019 10:10:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1016390

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Skilled Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that skilled workers in the offshore oil and gas sector can train to work in the offshore wind sector without incurring unreasonable extra cost or duplicate qualifications.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	196842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>Within the offshore oil and gas industry several initiatives are taking place to help diversify the workforce into other sectors of the economy such as offshore wind. For example, OPITO the offshore industry skills body is working with Government and representatives from offshore oil and gas, onshore oil and gas, renewables and nuclear sectors to identify common transferable qualifications for a range of technical job roles to enable workers to move more freely between energy sectors.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 03/12/2018 10:35:16 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1010441

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to support the offshore wind sector.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	907706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Offshore wind is already bringing high value jobs to coastal communities like Grimsby, for example, from the Triton Knoll project.</p><p> </p><p>Hull has seen 1,000 direct jobs created from the £310 million investment in Siemens’ blade factory.</p><p> </p><p>We are moving to advance discussions with the offshore wind sector around a Sector Deal that ensures higher levels of local content, UK jobs and investment in supply chains, like those in the hon Member’s constituency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 20/11/2018 15:19:40 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

1110808

	registered interest
	date	09/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding the Government has allocated to offshore wind in Scotland since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
	tabling member printed	Luke Graham
	uin	242956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>Offshore wind is supported under the Renewables Obligation (RO) and Contracts for Difference (CfD). The RO was available to all eligible generators<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>. Since 2015 onwards, support has been awarded on a competitive basis using Contracts for Difference (CfD). The offshore wind capacity brought forward in Scottish waters through RO and CfD since 2010 is approximately 2.3 GW<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup>.</p><p> </p><p>The costs of these schemes are paid for through consumers’ energy bills and managed by Ofgem and the Low Carbon Contracts Company. From 2010 to 2017/18, the last financial year for which spend figures are available, there has been £355.6 million of spending under the RO on offshore wind in Scotland. No CfD payments were made in respect of offshore wind generation in Scotland during the same period.</p><p>Innovation has been key in bringing down the costs of offshore wind. The work of the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, based in Glasgow and Levenmouth, has been, and will continue to be, important, in this. For example in June 2018 the ORE Catapult announced a £1.3 million programme of technology innovation projects designed to advance Scotland’s offshore wind sector[i]. In 2018, the Government also announced a further £73.5 million, five-year funding plan for the ORE Catapult.</p><p> </p><p>[1] The RO closed to new capacity on 31 March 2017 (with exceptions that extended the deadline to 31 March 2018 for certain offshore wind stations). Accredited capacity will receive support for 20 years or until the final closure of the scheme on 31 March 2037, whichever is the earlier.</p><p>[2] CfDs awarded for 2,062 MW; under RO total installed at the end of 2017/18 was 218.5 MW.</p><p> </p><p>[i] <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fore.catapult.org.uk%2Fpress-releases%2Finnovation-funding-boost-scottish-offshore-wind%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCynthia.Pereira%40beis.gov.uk%7C1f5e701183444a321a2408d6c1a2c879%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636909302217258469&amp;sdata=0N2NzG0e3DGAHcR5txV%2Bvoj6mDOVFK7VSigbGFzT4Us%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://ore.catapult.org.uk/press-releases/innovation-funding-boost-scottish-offshore-wind/</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/04/2019 14:01:40 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4622 label Biography information for Luke Graham

1088441

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: North Sea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the number of jobs that will be created for UK-resident (a) seafarers and (b) divers at the (i) transportation, (ii) installation, (iii) construction and (iv) maintenance phases of the Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm; and what recent assurances he has sought from Red Rock Power regarding the contractors engaged to carry out each phase of work.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	231985
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>No estimates have been made by the Government on the number of jobs that will be created by the Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm.</p><p> </p><p>Red Rock has publicly stated the Inch Cape project could create up to 1,900 jobs in the UK during construction. <a href="http://www.inchcapewind.com/news/Inch_Cape_Offshore_Wind_Development_announces_supply_chain_commitments" target="_blank">http://www.inchcapewind.com/news/Inch_Cape_Offshore_Wind_Development_announces_supply_chain_commitments</a></p><p> </p><p>The project will also create long-term local jobs during the operations and maintenance of the windfarm.</p><p> </p><p>The Department meets regularly with all offshore wind developers to understand their plans for delivering projects in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 18/03/2019 15:11:31 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1110255

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: North Sea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to increase the production of wind energy in the North Sea.
	tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
	uin	242097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK has the largest installed offshore wind capacity in the world, with over 7.9 GW operational. This will rise to around 14GW by 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The Offshore Wind Sector Deal, published on 7<sup>th</sup> March 2019 in collaboration with the sector, brings a strategic approach to the delivery of offshore wind that could see up to 30GW of offshore wind by 2030, with a significant amount of this potentially deploying in the North Sea.</p><p> </p><p>The UK also plays an important part in the North Seas Energy Cooperation together with the nine countries in the region. The aim of this initiative is to maximise the development of the renewable energy resources in the North Seas as cost-efficiently and sustainably as possible, for example by collaborating on the construction of offshore generation and grid infrastructure.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/04/2019 08:49:47 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1019398

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Noise
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he is taking steps to ensure that the level of regulation applied to fracking sites on the permanent monitoring of noise emissions applies also to (a) the wind industry, (b) wind turbines and (c) all wind farm sites; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
	uin	198310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/12/2018 answer text <p>Planning authorities are responsible for applying and enforcing any conditions attached to the planning permission for a fracking or wind turbine development, and this must be assessed on a case-by-case basis. This may include monitoring of noise levels.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/12/2018 13:23:06 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

1019510

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the oral contribution of 21 November 2018 by the Minister of State for Climate Change and Industry to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on Carbon Capture and Storage, Question 229, if he will identify the evidence on which the Minister based her statement that onshore wind cost-comparisons are not necessarily particularly accurate.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	uin	198142
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s most recent assessment of levelised costs for a range of technologies was published in 2016. We are currently undertaking a review of our evidence on levelised costs of electricity generation.</p><p> </p><p>The cost of developing, building and operating any onshore or offshore wind farm will vary according to site specific characteristics. Levelised costs are a generic central estimate which take into account the range of likely costs associated with developing projects of a particular technology class but are not in themselves project specific.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/12/2018 17:10:35 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1019512

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the relative cost of onshore wind as a form of energy production compared to other forms of production.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	uin	198143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>BEIS’s most recent published assessment of electricity generation costs can be found in the generation costs report (2016)[1] which covers both renewable and non-renewable technologies, including onshore wind. We are currently undertaking a review of our evidence on levelised costs of electricity generation.</p><p>[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-november-2016</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/12/2018 17:08:30 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead