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registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps he has taken to encourage the further development of the offshore wind turbine industry; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	122030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The UK is at the forefront of offshore wind deployment. The last Contracts for Difference auction (announced 11 September 2017) will bring forward 3.2GW of new offshore wind capacity to be built by 2024.</p><p> </p><p>In the Clean Growth Strategy, published on 12 October 2017, the Government reaffirmed our future support for offshore wind stating that we would improve the route to market for renewable technologies such as offshore wind through:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Up to £557 million for further Pot 2 Contract for Difference auctions with the next one planned for spring 2019;</li><li>Working with industry as they develop an ambitious Sector Deal for offshore wind which could result in 10 gigawatts of new capacity, with the opportunity for additional deployment if this is cost effective, built in the 2020s.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 16/01/2018 15:16:33 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford previous answer version 34246 answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

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registered interest
date	02/11/2017
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the offshore wind capital expenditure data was for each of the last two years; and what the evidential basis is for his Department's assessment of the fall in the cost of wind power.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	111098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on capital expenditure for individual offshore wind projects. The Department’s latest projection of capital expenditure for generic offshore wind projects is published in Arup (2016): Review of Renewable Electricity Generation Cost and Technical Assumptions, and can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arup-2016-review-of-renewable-electricity-generation-cost-and-technical-assumptions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arup-2016-review-of-renewable-electricity-generation-cost-and-technical-assumptions</a>.</p><p>The Contracts for Difference (CfD) Second Allocation Round results, which were announced on 11 September 2017, showed one offshore wind project commissioning in 2021/22 cleared at a strike price of £74.75/MWh (2012 prices) and two offshore wind projects commissioning in year 2022/23 cleared at a strike price of £57.50/MWh (2012 prices). Both these prices represent a saving on the administrative strike price set using the data from Arup (2016), indicating that offshore wind costs are falling.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/11/2017 12:02:03 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

782936

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of guaranteeing the strike price to consumers of operational offshore wind sites in (a) 2015 and (b) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	111099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2017 answer text <ul><li>The first Contract For Difference (CfD) allocation round results, published in 2015, saw over 1.2 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity secure contracts, estimated at the time of the auction to cost consumers just over £240 million per year (2012 prices).</li><li>The second round results, announced in September 2017, saw the clearing price half for offshore wind delivered in the auction; we secured an additional 3.2 gigawatts of new offshore wind capacity, estimated at the time of the auction to cost consumers just over £130 million per year (2012 prices).</li><li>There are many factors that affect payments under these contracts, which mean that actual costs may go up or down.</li><li>These results demonstrate that the UK is an attractive place to invest, with a record amount of renewable capacity secured to power our homes.</li><li>The price of offshore wind clearing through the auction has halved in two years, demonstrating that competitive auctions are working well to drive down costs and deliver savings for consumers, whilst delivering the government’s decarbonisation ambitions.</li></ul> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/11/2017 13:09:22 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

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registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to prioritise investment in offshore wind energy over nuclear energy in light of recent figures that shows that energy from offshore wind will now be cheaper.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	9937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>The result from the contracts for difference auction is a great result for British consumers and will drive down the cost of decarbonisation. However, the strike prices for offshore wind and nuclear are not directly comparable given the differences in the characteristics of the technologies. Having a diverse generation mix is important for the UK’s security of supply. Nuclear also has a key role to play as part of a diverse generation mix delivering reliable low carbon electricity for consumers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 14/09/2017 09:09:17 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

751484

registered interest
date	12/07/2017
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of the UK's offshore wind sector is owned by UK investors and companies.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	4643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold specific information on UK ownership given the breadth of the sector and related supply chain. There has been significant overseas investment into offshore wind in the UK. Bloomberg New Energy Finance reported that in 2016 the UK led Europe for the third successive year, with investment of $25.9bn, up 2% year on year percentage increase in investment in the UK in clean energy.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 26/07/2017 09:13:47 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford previous answer version 5078 answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey