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454146

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Warm Home Discount Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when she plans to open her Department's consultation on changes to the Warm Home Discount scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
	tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
	uin	27980
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government announced in the Spending Review on 25 November 2015 that the Warm Home Discount scheme would be extended to 2020/21 at current levels of £320m per year, rising with inflation, to help households who are at risk of fuel poverty with their energy bills. Government will publically consult on changes to the scheme later this year.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/02/2016 14:49:22 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

454155

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Tidal Power
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her Department's policy is on the future development of tidal lagoons in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgwater and West Somerset
	tabling member printed	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger
	uin	27842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government recognises the potential that exists in harnessing tidal energy around the coastline of the UK.</p><p> </p><p>That is why we are commissioning an independent strategic review to assess the case for tidal lagoons and consider whether they could represent value for money for the consumer.</p><p> </p><p>Government will carefully consider the recommendations from the review before making decisions on future development of tidal lagoons.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/02/2016 14:06:33 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1396 label Biography information for Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

454152

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Yorkshire and the Humber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information her Department holds on the number of people employed in the (a) wind and (b) solar energy sector in Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Michael Dugher
	uin	27879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business Innovation and Skills published a report in March 2015 on “The Size and Performance of the UK Low Carbon Economy”. This contains estimates of the number of people employed directly within different sectors of the low carbon economy, and in their supply chains:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-economy-size-and-performance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-economy-size-and-performance</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The report estimates that for 2013 in Yorkshire and Humber there were 2,900 people employed in the solar photovoltaics sector, with equivalent estimates of 2,100 and 500 for the onshore and offshore wind sectors respectively. These figures include those directly employed by firms in the sector, and resulting jobs within the supply chain.</p><p> </p><p>One thousand new jobs will be created in Hull at Siemens’ offshore wind manufacturing plant which is due to be operational from 2017 and will also create additional jobs in the supply chain.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/02/2016 14:03:34 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	3916 label Biography information for Michael Dugher

454153

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Yorkshire and the Humber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the level of installed capacity was for (a) wind and (b) solar energy in Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Michael Dugher
	uin	27883
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>The level of installed capacity for wind and solar PV in Yorkshire and the Humber, for the ten years to 2014, is given in the attached table. Data for 2015 will be available on 29 September, 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/02/2016 14:26:08 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom attachment 1 file name Regional Renewable Statistics 2003 2014 Installed Capacity.doc.docx title Regional Renewable Statistics Installed Capacity
	tabling member	3916 label Biography information for Michael Dugher

454147

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Renewable Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will publish an updated set of Levy Control Framework projections.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
	uin	27990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>The Office for Budget Responsibility published updated Levy Control Framework (LCF) spend projections alongside the Spending Review on 25 November and we anticipate they will publish an update alongside the March budget. The Department will publish further details on the LCF projections in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/02/2016 14:05:27 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

454148

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Renewable Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what evidential basis was used when calculating the latest forecasts for the Levy Control Framework.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
	uin	27991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>We use a range of assumptions when updating Levy Control Framework (LCF) forecasts. Strike prices for signed Contracts for Difference are available on the Low Carbon Contracts Company website. Renewable Obligation and Feed in Tariff Scheme deployment data is published monthly on the Renewable Energy Planning Database and Ofgem’s website respectively:</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><p><a href="https://www.renewablesandchp.ofgem.gov.uk/Public/ReportManager.aspx?ReportVisibility=1&amp;ReportCategory=0" target="_blank">https://www.renewablesandchp.ofgem.gov.uk/Public/ReportManager.aspx?ReportVisibility=1&amp;ReportCategory=0</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The publication of the Renewables Obligation 2016/17 outlined the methodology for deriving some of the LCF’s key assumptions:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/464685/Renewables_Obligation_Level_Calculations_for_2016-17.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/464685/Renewables_Obligation_Level_Calculations_for_2016-17.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>A similar approach is taken for FiTs and CfD assumptions, and with interim adjustments made to reflect the latest commercial, technical, and policy specific information available to DECC.</p><p> </p><p>Assumptions on wholesale prices used in the LCF projections that were published alongside the autumn Spending Review were consistent with the wholesale fossil fuel, electricity, and carbon prices scenarios published as part of the updated Energy and Emissions Projections in November 2015, and are set out in Annex M at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/477625/Annex-m-price-growth-assumptions.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/477625/Annex-m-price-growth-assumptions.xls</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/02/2016 14:10:57 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

454021

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Heating
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will instruct the National Measurement and Regulation Office to publish a list of all known heat networks in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
	uin	27989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>In the final quarter of this year DECC will publish summary tables, including regional breakdowns, of the data gathered as a result of the notification requirement in the Heat Networks (Metering and Billing) Regulations. Due to the commercially sensitive nature of the data, this information will be aggregated rather than a list of individual networks.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/02/2016 14:52:39 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

454145

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Heat Pumps: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether her Department has undertaken a value-for-money assessment for gas absorption heat pumps for inclusion within the Renewable Heat Incentive; and if she will place in the Library a copy of such an assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
	tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
	uin	28128
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>We intend to reform the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) to improve value for money and reduce costs; improve cost control and budget management; and ensure the scheme focuses more on our long-term needs, while contributing to both our carbon and renewable energy targets. We plan to consult on the changes shortly. Therefore, I am unable to make specific commitments as to the future shape of the scheme at this point.</p><p> </p><p>DECC commissioned a suite of evidence to look into the cost and performance of technologies which are not currently eligible for the RHI but could be considered for future inclusion; one of which was Gas Driven Heat Pumps – available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/371695/RHI_Evidence_Report_-_Gas_Driven_Heat_Pumps.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/371695/RHI_Evidence_Report_-_Gas_Driven_Heat_Pumps.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>We have not undertaken a formal value for money assessment for the inclusion of gas absorption heat pumps under the RHI, though we have undertaken a more general assessment of whether gas absorption heat pumps should be supported within the RHI.</p><p> </p><p>Given the challenges of reforming the existing RHI scheme, we are not persuaded that now is the time to also consider opening the scheme to technologies which are not currently supported. Instead, we want to start building a dialogue around the long-term policy framework required for the low-carbon technologies needed in the future, which does not rely on public subsidy.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/02/2016 14:51:53 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 47553 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

454143

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Energy: Meters
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many smart (a) electric and (b) gas meters have been installed in Calderdale since the smart meter programme started; and what estimate she has made of the total savings achieved by consumers as a result of the smart meter programme to date.
	tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
	tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
	uin	28114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>Data on the number of smart electricity and gas meters installed in Great Britain is set out in the Government’s ‘Smart Meters, Great Britain, Quarterly report to end September 2015’, published on 22 December 2015:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-release-and-data-smart-meters-great-britain-quarter-3-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-release-and-data-smart-meters-great-britain-quarter-3-2014</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The roll-out is making good progress with more than 2 million meters now operating under the Programme.</p><p> </p><p>Currently, data is published only at Great Britain level. Data is not collected from energy suppliers in a format that allows constituency- or local authority-level data to be produced.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2015 DECC published research on the effects of the early roll-out of smart meters – The Early Learning Project:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-metering-early-learning-project-and-small-scale-behaviour-trials" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-metering-early-learning-project-and-small-scale-behaviour-trials</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This project found reductions in energy consumption consistent with DECC’s steady state projections for domestic consumers. The projections are 2.8% for electricity (prepayment and credit), 2% for gas (credit) and 0.5% for gas (prepayment).</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/02/2016 14:50:17 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker

454149

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Electricity Generation: Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when she will publish the findings of the Frontier Economics analysis commissioned by her Department in 2014 with the aim of further systematising her Department's understanding of the whole system impacts of electricity generation technologies.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
	uin	27992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>DECC commissioned Frontier Economics late in 2014 to undertake a project on the Whole System Impacts of Electricity Generation Technologies on the electricity system.</p><p> </p><p>Given the variety of different terminologies and approaches to whole system impacts in existing literature, the core aim of the project is to set out a comprehensive framework to define whole system impacts and their components and drivers, which can be used to further systematise DECC’s modelling capability. The resulting methodological report is nearing completion following peer review by experts in the field of whole system impacts.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/02/2016 14:53:18 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook