Solar Power: Feed-in Tariffs
(asked on 23rd October 2015) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the cost to the public purse was of the solar industry feed-in tariff in (a) the UK and (b) London in each year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
The Feed-in-Tariff is not financed through the public purse. The cost of the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) scheme is paid for through a levy on consumer electricity bills and managed within the Levy Control Framework (LCF).
The table below shows total payments for all technologies under the FITs scheme as reported by Ofgem. Payments made under the FIT scheme are not available by technology, but the majority of deployment is solar photovoltaic. We do not hold this data by region.
2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | ||
FIT Total Expenditure | £14,526,123 | £151,147,686 | £511,137,737 | £690,991,283 |
Below you can find a link to Ofgem’s webpage of Annual Reports:
Ofgem’s Annual Report reporting generation payments for 2014/15 will be released in the next few months.