Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Bob Russell and Andrew Bridgen

Thursday 6th November 2014 Commons Chamber

[Sir Bob Russell (Colchester) (LD)]

3. What steps he is taking to encourage the public sector to increase rooftop solar energy installations.

[Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire) (Con)]

4. What steps he is taking to encourage businesses to increase rooftop solar energy deployment.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (Amber Rudd)]

The solar PV strategy set out how we will maximise the potential for deployment on mid-sized commercial and industrial buildings and on the public sector estate. We are taking actions to deliver on that ambition, including: making changes to the feed-in tariffs to protect the incentive for building mounted solar; consulting on allowing solar PV to transfer from one build to another without losing FIT accreditation; and working with the Cabinet Office on our ambition to see 1 GW of mid-scale solar deployed across the Government estate.