Renewable Energy Debate
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Lord Bradshaw
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(3 years, 11 months ago)
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Lord Callanan (Con)
As the noble Lord said, we have a tremendous record in deployment of renewables. Renewable capacity in the UK has gone from less than 9 gigawatts at the start of 2010 to almost 47 gigawatts at the start of 2020. We certainly hope to increase that rapid deployment.
Lord Bradshaw (LD) [V]
Could the Minister talk about the future of interconnectors and whether more are planned to give the security of supply to which he referred?
Lord Callanan (Con)
As the noble Lord correctly said, a number of very successful interconnector projects already exist and will exist in the future. We think they will make a valuable contribution to our energy mix and to providing security of supply.