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386608

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Renewable Energy: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much the Government has spent in each renewable energy sector in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	4982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK continues to make progress on renewable energy in electricity, heat and transport. The cost of policies over the last five years (2009/10-2013/14) averaged at £2,396m per annum (see table 1 below).</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Table 1: Policy costs by sector over time (£m)*</em></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Sector </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Electricity**</p></td><td><p>£1,120</p></td><td><p>£1,300</p></td><td><p>£1,609</p></td><td><p>£2,498</p></td><td><p>£3,290</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Heat</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>£2</p></td><td><p>£27</p></td><td><p>£52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Transport</p></td><td><p>£352</p></td><td><p>£453</p></td><td><p>£538</p></td><td><p>£345</p></td><td><p>£398</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£1,471</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£1,752</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£2,148</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£2,869</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£3,740</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><em>*in millions of nominal GBP. Discrepancies due to rounding.</em></p><p><em>**this information is publicly available – sources are set out below. Figures for 14/15 not available yet. There was no spend between 2009/10 to 2013/14 on Contracts for Difference.</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This information was taken from publicly available sources: for electricity, by multiplying ‘total obligation (ROCs) and ‘buy-out’ price (£ per ROC) for the Renewables Obligation spend:</p><p> </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-buy-out-fund-2013-14" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-buy-out-fund-2013-14</a>;</li><li><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/2013/10/buy-out_fund_redistribution_12-13.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/2013/10/buy-out_fund_redistribution_12-13.pdf</a>;</li><li><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-buy-out-fund-2011-12" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-buy-out-fund-2011-12</a>;</li><li><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-late-payment-fund-2010-2011" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-late-payment-fund-2010-2011</a>;</li><li><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-annual-report-2009-2010" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-annual-report-2009-2010</a>;</li><li>Directly from each annual report for Feed-in-Tariffs spend:</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/feed-tariff-fit-scheme/feed-tariff-reports/annual-reports" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/feed-tariff-fit-scheme/feed-tariff-reports/annual-reports</a>;</p><ul><li>For heat, directly from: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014</a>;</li><li>For transport, adjusted using the GDP deflator:</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-transport-fuel-obligation-annual-report-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-transport-fuel-obligation-annual-report-2013-to-2014</a>;</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/307437/impact-assessment-pir.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/307437/impact-assessment-pir.pdf</a>;</li><li>http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/method-quality/specific/economy/national-accounts/changes-to-national-accounts/index.html.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/07/2015 13:08:24 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

386609

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Energy: Income
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 has received from the six largest energy companies on the level of their earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation from electricity (a) generation and (b) supply in (i) 2014 and (ii) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	4752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information pertaining to the earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of energy generation assets other than material already in the public domain.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/07/2015 12:55:36 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

386610

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Electricity Generation: Competition
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 place in the Library the unredacted version of the Competition Market Authority report, Analysis of generation profitability, published on 25 February 2015.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	4753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is an independent body. The Government does not have access to the commercially confidential information that market participants have provided to the CMA as part of the investigation into energy markets. It is a matter for the CMA to determine what information is put into the public domain.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 06/07/2015 15:05:43 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

386611

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Wind Power: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate her Department has made of the number of jobs in (a) construction and (b) operation that may be lost following the ending of onshore wind subsidy.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	4723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>There were an estimated 19,000 people employed in the onshore wind sector in 2013, including in the supply chain. [1] We currently have enough projects in the pipeline to meet our 2020 renewable electricity objective of between 11-13GW of onshore wind capacity while remaining within the limits of what is affordable. This pipeline of projects will deliver new jobs across the UK.</p><p>[1] <em>The Size and Performance of the UK Low Carbon Economy: Report for 2010 to 2013</em> (March 2013): <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/416240/bis-15-206-size-and-performance-of-uk-low-carbon-economy.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/416240/bis-15-206-size-and-performance-of-uk-low-carbon-economy.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/07/2015 13:23:59 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

386612

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Department of Energy and Climate Change: Public Appointments
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 place in the Library a list of all public appointments made by her Department between 1 January 2015 and 1 May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	4963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>Under the Code of Practice for Ministerial Appointments to Public Bodies April 2012, government departments are required to publicise successful appointments.</p><p>Public appointments made by the Department are either published on the Department or the relevant public bodies’ website. Between 1 January 2015 and 1 May 2015 appointments were published on the Departments website and on the Fuel Poverty Advisory Groups website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-energy-climate-change" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-energy-climate-change</a>;</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/the-fuel-poverty-advisory-group" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/the-fuel-poverty-advisory-group</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/07/2015 12:06:58 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

386614

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Renewable Energy: Investment
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 make a comparative estimate of per capita investment in the renewable energy sector by the UK and (a) Germany, (b) China and (c) the EU average.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	4831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the UK has benefitted from over £53bn of private sector investment in the renewable energy market (Biomass &amp; Waste, Geothermal, Marine, Small Hydro, Solar and Wind) since 2004. This equates to an average of £79 per capita per year. In the same period, around £133bn was invested in Germany at an average of £148 per capita per year and £244bn was invested in China at an average of £16 per capita per year. The European average for the same period is £78 per capita per year.</p><p>In 2014 there was over £8bn of private sector investment in the UK equivalent to £132 per capita, compared to £97 for Germany and £36 for China. The European average was £60.</p><p><em>Source - Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Eurostat and UN </em></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/07/2015 12:37:35 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

386615

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Renewable Energy: EU Law
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 make a comparative assessment of progress in meeting targets under the EU Renewable Energy Directive by the UK and other EU member states.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	4832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK is continuing to make progress towards the EU Renewable Energy Directive target of 15% of final energy consumption from renewable sources. We are on track to meet the next interim target for 2013/14; provisional figures published on 25 June 2015 show 6.3% of final energy consumption came from renewable sources in 2013/14 against a target level of 5.4%. We will be reporting final figures at the end of the year.</p><p>Further information on the progress of the EU overall and individual Members States can be found on the Eurostat website:</p><p><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/energy/data/shares" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/energy/data/shares</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 06/07/2015 15:04:02 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

386617

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Microgeneration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of UK energy was supplied by microgeneration in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	4889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>DECC does not routinely produce figures specifically for energy supplied by micro-generation technologies (defined as electricity schemes of up to 50 kW of capacity, and heat up to 45 kW). The table below shows an estimate of energy generated by renewable micro-generation (and a small amount of, non-renewable, micro CHP) under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), the Great Britain Feed in Tariff (FiT) scheme and the Renewables Obligation (RO) (including Northern Ireland). It does not therefore include micro-generation from the majority of non-renewable sources. This is compared with total UK energy production for the corresponding financial years, beginning with 2010/11, the first year of the FiT scheme.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>RHI heat generation (up to 45 kW schemes only)</strong></p><p><strong>(GWh)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FiTs electricity generation</strong></p><p><strong>(up to 50 kW schemes only) </strong></p><p><strong>(GWh)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>RO electricity generation</strong></p><p><strong>(up to 50 kW schemes only)</strong></p><p><strong>(GWh)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total renewable energy micro-generation (GWh)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total energy production (GWh)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Renewable Micro-generation proportion of energy production</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2010/11</em></p></td><td> </td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>1,792,507</p></td><td><p>0.00%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2011/12</em></p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td><td><p>393</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>406</p></td><td><p>1,545,549</p></td><td><p>0.03%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2012/13</em></p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>1,253</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>1,290</p></td><td><p>1,385,757</p></td><td><p>0.09%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2013/14</em></p></td><td><p>11.0</p></td><td><p>1,920</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>1,975</p></td><td><p>1,337,335</p></td><td><p>0.15%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p><em>FiTs covers installations up to 5 MW, so overall generation figures for these schemes have been adjusted by the proportion of micro-generation within overall FiTs capacity at the end of each year.</em></p><p><em>FiTs and RO data are not yet available for 2014/15, so that year has not been included.</em></p><p>Source:</p><p>Feed in Tariffs data from FiTs annual reports, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/feed-tariff-fit-scheme/feed-tariff-reports/annual-reports" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/feed-tariff-fit-scheme/feed-tariff-reports/annual-reports</a></p><p>Feed in Tariffs deployment data, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/monthly-small-scale-renewable-deployment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/monthly-small-scale-renewable-deployment</a></p><p>Renewables Obligation generation data from table ET 6.3, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-section-6-renewables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-section-6-renewables</a></p><p>Total energy production from table ET 1.1, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/total-energy-section-1-energy-trends" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/total-energy-section-1-energy-trends</a></p><p>RHI statistics are published monthly and are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-heat-incentive-renewable-heat-premium-payment-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-heat-incentive-renewable-heat-premium-payment-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/07/2015 12:57:59 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

386619

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Electricity Generation: Competition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Competition Market Authority report Analysis of generation profitability, published on 25 February 2015, what the earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation from electricity (a) generation and (b) supply were of each of the six largest energy companies, in the period covered by that report; and what comparative assessment she has made of the level of such earnings from electricity generation and supply.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	4835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Competition and Markets Authority report “Analysis of Generation Profitability” published on 25<sup>th</sup> February does not contain the information requested (some of this information may be found in publically available financial statements).</p><p>The Government supports the CMA’s independent investigation into energy market competition. The CMA’s legal powers provide access to the detailed information required to make a robust assessment of earnings and they have stated that they are continuing to look at overall profitability levels in both supply and generation.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 06/07/2015 15:05:18 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

386160

registered interest
date	29/06/2015
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	Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect on sea levels of a two-degree increase in global temperatures.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	4531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>Sea level will rise in response to the expansion of the warming oceans and from melting land ice. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5th Assessment Report notes that for a climate change scenario consistent with remaining below 2°C, global mean sea level rise is likely to be between 0.26 to 0.55 m for the period 2081–2100, compared to 1986–2005. The top of this range could be higher should the marine-based ice sheets in Antarctica collapse, increasing by up to several tenths of a metre. Sea level rise will continue beyond the 21<sup>st</sup> century in this scenario even though global temperatures stabilise, with at least a further 0.5 m expected by 2500.</p><p>The future contribution from ice sheets remains very uncertain. There is a risk their melting could result in considerable sea level rise in the longer term.</p><p>The UK government is funding research into future sea level rise and its impacts through the DECC and Defra co-funded Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme, and through the DECC funded AVOID programme.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 03/07/2015 13:30:29 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 10894 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds