Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the proportion of energy production accounted for by micro-generation in the next three years.

Installations of electricity microgeneration technologies (<50kW) are supported by Feed-In Tariffs (FITs). The FITs scheme was launched in April 2010. Under FITs the latest available estimated generation figures for microgeneration technologies are 2.7 TWh in 2014/15. We have not published any projections for FITs further into the future.

Installations of microgeneration heat technologies (<45kW) are supported by the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). The domestic RHI scheme launched in April 2014. Our estimates of the amount of heat that will be generated from installations under domestic RHI are 0.1TWh 2014/15 and 0.4TWh in 2015/16 (a small number of installations may be larger than 45kW).

We do not produce microgeneration projections for the non-domestic RHI as the scheme is primarily aimed at larger installations, though there will be some energy produced at the microgeneration scale.