Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) Our commitment to renewables is beyond question, and we have done more to drive forward that agenda with - Speech Link
2: None significant infrastructure projects, just like all other onshore forms of electricity generation; remove the obligation - Speech Link
3: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) Some developers do enter into such agreements, but some do not, and there is currently no obligation - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Frost (CON - Life peer) This stressed renewables grid cannot be relied on by a modern economy.Secondly, as a result of these - Speech Link
2: Lord Turnbull (CB - Life peer) For example, is there an obligation to contribute to building up our strategic reserves? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) Who really knows what renewables will end up costing consumers, not in a hypothetical 2050 but in three - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) just because this a critical bridge to net zero by 2050—which, I remind the House, we have a legal obligation - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (CON - East Surrey) We have boosted our share of renewables from just 7% in 2010 to almost half today. - Speech Link
2: Claire Coutinho (CON - East Surrey) He also said that growing our renewables sector to 40% was pie in the sky, but in the first quarter of - Speech Link
3: Claire Coutinho (CON - East Surrey) billion up to 2028, in addition to the £5 billion that will be delivered through the energy company obligation - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) It is unforgivable that the Government have cancelled the obligation for landlords to upgrade homes to - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) The Government’s universal service obligation on Royal Mail guarantees delivery of parcels at uniform - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) There is certainly, as part of the administration process, an obligation on the administrators to look - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) in north Devon, where we talked about the potential for UK shipbuilding jobs linked to the offshore renewables - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) The amendments would place an additional obligation on government to bring forward proposals to remove - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) is really a good strategy, because if you look at the cost overruns and the delays, I think purely a renewables-based - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) members—have all highlighted the role that new nuclear electricity generating capacity, in partnership with renewables - Speech Link
4: None may, for any purpose connected with that obligation, make provision corresponding to or similar to any - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Ravensdale (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Those renewables may be cheap in terms of cost at the generator, but how do we manage intermittency? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) continued economic success but, unless we are successful in doing it, we will fail to meet our legal obligation - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Renewables are there now. All those roofs are sitting there ready to have solar panels put on them. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) We have grown to more than 40% of energy being generated by renewables. - Speech Link
2: Angus Brendan MacNeil (IND - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) Gentleman talks about bill payers, but for the previous wind that was built under renewables obligation - Speech Link
3: None I turn to renewables. - Speech Link
4: Craig Mackinlay (CON - South Thanet) Friend is making an excellent point about the extra energy provision that we need to make renewables - Speech Link
5: None in section 124(2) of the Energy Act 2004 (renewable transport fuel obligation) - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornhill (LDEM - Life peer) level of uncertainty is just not acceptable.The Minister will no doubt say that Clause 87 imposes an obligation - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) same time, we need to do this in a way which is both effective and appropriate.Clause 87 imposes an obligation - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blackstone (LAB - Life peer) the rooftop solar amendment, which in no way suggests that it is an alternative to other important renewables - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) This useless Government who have delivered 43% renewables on to the grid! - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) In fact, over that period, we have gone from virtually no renewables in our system—6.9%—to 43% in the - Speech Link
3: Mick Whitley (LAB - Birkenhead) Government for their failure on energy efficiency, with the number of homes helped under the energy company obligation - Speech Link
4: Mark Pawsey (CON - Rugby) At a time when the cost of generating electricity is falling thanks to the increasing use of renewables - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) regulator is the administrator for monitoring compliance with the sustainability criteria within the renewables - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) First, the renewables obligation legislation was originally introduced by the last Labour Government. - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) My Lords, looking at renewables more broadly, does my noble friend have a view on the efficacy and morality - Speech Link