Wind Power

(asked on 11th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to increase the production of electricity from onshore wind.


This question was answered on 15th December 2017

Over 12GW of installed onshore wind capacity was operational in the UK at the end of the second quarter of 2017. This deployment was supported by schemes such as the Renewables Obligation (RO), which are funded by bill payers.

Further onshore wind farms are expected to deploy up to March 2019 with support from the RO, utilising grace periods provided for in the Energy Act 2016 and the Renewables Obligation Closure Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 and the Renewables Obligation Closure (No.2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016. In addition, around 690MW of onshore wind capacity has been contracted to deploy under the Contracts for Different regime by 2019, which was established to replace the RO.

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