Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what plans his Department has to accelerate domestic renewable generation, including offshore wind, tidal energy, green hydrogen and geothermal.

Accelerating renewable generation is one of this Government’s missions and that’s why we published the Clean Power Action Plan.

There are a range of interventions this Government made since coming to power, including lifting the onshore wind ban in England and the significant progress already made to deliver a solar rooftop revolution.

The Contracts for Difference (CfD) mechanism is one of our main levers to intervene and in Allocation Round 7, we secured a record 14.7GW of renewable capacity, including 8.4GW of offshore wind, and four new tidal stream projects totalling 20.9MW. We look forward to more capacity being released under future CfDs.

We are supporting 10 green hydrogen projects across England, Scotland and Wales through the first Hydrogen Allocation Round.

The Government recognises the renewable resource that the UK has for geothermal energy and is pleased to see innovation in both heat and power applications.