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<p>The Department has a programme of action to reduce dependence on non-renewable
sources of energy, including:</p><p>o taking action on energy efficiency to reduce
demand for heat through the Private Rented Sector Regulations and through the Energy
Company Obligation, which is worth £640m annually and will deliver around 300,000
measures per year until September 2018;</p><p>o encouraging households and businesses
to install renewable and low carbon heat systems through the Renewable Heat Incentive
scheme, with a £780m budget for 2017-2018;</p><p>o promoting heat networks in areas
of denser heat demand, through the department’s new £320m capital support through
Heat Networks Investment Project;</p><p>o working with major industrial sectors to
set out short term collaborative actions on decarbonisation;</p><p>Electricity generated
from renewables has increased from 7% to nearly 25% since 2010. We are on track to
meet our ambition of delivering 30% of the UK’s electricity from renewables in 2020-21.</p><p>Support
for large scale renewable deployment is delivered through competitive allocation of
Contracts for Difference. The second Contracts for Difference allocation round is
underway, with a budget of £290m of annual support for 15 years for technologies including
offshore wind. The Government has also provided support for small scale renewable
generation through Feed in Tariff.</p><p>Additionally, last November last year we
launched a consultation on world leading plans to end electricity generation from
unabated coal by 2025. The consultation ended on 8 February and we are currently considering
the contributions received. A response to the consultation will be published in due
course.</p>
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