PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Renewable Energy: Expenditure (30 June 2015)

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).

Table 1: Policy costs by sector over time (£m)*

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:

• https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-buy-out-fund-2013-14;
• https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/2013/10/buy-out_fund_redistribution_12-13.pdf;
• https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-buy-out-fund-2011-12;
• https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-late-payment-fund-2010-2011;
• https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/renewables-obligation-annual-report-2009-2010;
• Directly from each annual report for Feed-in-Tariffs spend:

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/feed-tariff-fit-scheme/feed-tariff-reports/annual-reports;

• For heat, directly from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014;
• For transport, adjusted using the GDP deflator:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-transport-fuel-obligation-annual-report-2013-to-2014;

• https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/307437/impact-assessment-pir.pdf;
• http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/method-quality/specific/economy/national-accounts/changes-to-national-accounts/index.html.