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date	05/01/2015
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	Solar Power: North Africa
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking in working with EU partners to encourage the development of concentrated solar power in the desert regions of North Africa as part of plans to meet the 15 per cent interconnections target for Europe.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	219753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>The UK fully supports EU efforts to bring about further energy interconnection, both within the EU and linking the EU with third countries, in order to meet energy security and low carbon objectives. Developing concentrated solar power (CSP) in North Africa is potentially a part of these efforts among many others, although more research and development is required to demonstrate further improvements in CSP technology. The UK fully supports EU work in this area, such as in the Horizon 2020 Energy Programme.</p><p>Geographical and cost factors mean that CSP development in North Africa is not currently of direct interest to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 09/01/2015 14:02:16 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

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date	02/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Solar Power: North Africa
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide funding for the import of concentrated solar power from North Africa.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	219617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>Under Electricity Market Reform, the Government’s Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme is the primary mechanism to support large scale electricity generation in the UK. Concentrated Solar Power is not currently an eligible technology for support from UK CfDs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Under this scheme projects outside the UK are not currently eligible. The Government has been considering the benefits of supporting projects outside of the UK and published a paper in August 2014 setting out indicative areas of work that would need to be addressed to open the UK CfD scheme to eligible non-UK projects. This paper can be found here:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cfds-for-non-uk-renewable-electricity-projects" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cfds-for-non-uk-renewable-electricity-projects</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 09/01/2015 14:58:16 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile