PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Wind Power (28 November 2022)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much onshore wind generation capacity (a) is operating, (b) is under construction and (c) has planning permission as of 30 September 2022.

Asked by:
James Wild (Conservative)

Answer

The UK currently has approximately 14.6GW of operational onshore wind capacity. Individual projects under construction and with planning permission awaiting construction are listed in the Renewable Energy Planning Database at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract.

There are no published aggregated figures for these categories.


Answered by:
Graham Stuart (Conservative)
2 December 2022

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