Energy: Hydropower

Countess of Mar Excerpts

Wednesday 10th October 2012 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Verma]

My Lords, hydropower is an important part of the renewable energy mix and currently contributes around 15% of the renewable generation capacity in the UK. There is further potential for hydro schemes but it is limited by size. However, we still estimate that there is a potential to increase the number of small-scale projects to produce an additional capacity of around 1 gigawatt.

[The Countess of Mar]

My Lords, what is the level of subsidy for hydropower compared with that for solar power and wind power?

[Baroness Verma]

My Lords, all the different technologies have different subsidy levels. I should like to write to the noble Countess on the different subsidy levels, if she will allow that.