PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Renewable Energy (17 December 2014)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much renewable electricity capacity is projected to come online before 2020.
Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)
Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)
Answer
The Electricity Market Reform Delivery Plan [1], published in December 2013, outlined the following projections for renewable electricity capacity in 2020 split by technology. All the values given are in gigawatts.
Technology | 2020 |
Advanced Conversion Technologies (with or without CHP) | c.0.2-0.3 |
Anaerobic Digestion (with or without CHP) (>5 MW) | c.0.3-0.4 |
Biomass Conversion | 1.7 – 3.4 |
Dedicated Biomass (with CHP) | c. 0.3-0.6 |
Energy from Waste (with CHP) | c. 0.4 |
Geothermal (with or without CHP) | < 0.1 |
Hydro (>5 MW) | c. 1.7 |
Landfill Gas | c. 0.9 |
Offshore Wind | 8 – 15 |
Onshore Wind (>5 MW) | 11-13 |
Sewage Gas | c. 0.2 |
Large-Scale Solar Photo-Voltaic (>5 MW) | 2.4 – 4 |
Tidal Stream | c. 0.1 |
Wave |
Answered by:
Matt Hancock (Conservative)
5 January 2015
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