Wind Power

Lord Barker of Battle Excerpts

Monday 12th May 2014 Written Statements

[The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Gregory Barker)]

The Procedure Committee has requested that the response to UIN 193072 be revised in order to give a more complete response to the hon. Member for Sunderland Central.

The question asked:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much onshore wind capacity (a) received planning approval and (b) was rejected in each month in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011, (d) 2012 and (e) 2013; and how many planning applications for onshore wind farms were (i) approved and (ii) rejected in each of those months. [193072].

The original answer—Official Report, 25 March 2014, column 161W—was given as:-

This information is available in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), which tracks the progress of all renewable energy projects 0.01 MW and over from submission of a planning application through to determination and generation: https://restats.decc.gov.uk/app/reporting/decc/monthlyextract.

The full answer, including the relevant data, is:

The Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) tracks the progress of all projects over 0.01 MW from submission of a planning application through to determination and generation: https://restats.decc.gov.uk/app/reporting/decc/monthlyextract.

Historical data for planning approvals and refusals change from one month to the next owing to time taken for planning information to be published and the difficulty in locating each individual piece of planning data.

As at the end of March 2014, the REPD shows (for onshore wind installations):

The number and installed capacity of onshore wind farms that have been through the planning system and either accepted or rejected on a month by month basis since January 2009 are: