Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what criteria her Department uses to support the development of new energy technologies.

The Government’s Net Zero Research and Innovation Delivery Plan (2022-25) sets out the criteria for prioritising public sector investment in new energy technologies. This considers the technology’s likely contribution to maximising UK strategic advantage, focussing on UK business opportunities and jobs and developing UK energy security; its expected contribution to delivering the UK’s carbon budgets and major decarbonisation; and retaining optionality of different net zero pathways to ensure a cost-effective route to net zero.