Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of new onshore wind installations in Wales in each year since 2010.
Onshore wind plants in Wales are supported by either the Renewables Obligation (RO) for installations above 5 MW generation capacity or Feed in Tariff (FITs) for smaller installations. The table below shows the number of plants installed in Wales each year that are supported by each scheme.
RO closed to new applicants from 1 April 2017 with the exception of eligible generators that applied for a grace period.
Wales – onshore wind plants installed in year
Year | RO installations | Capacity (MW) | FITs installations | Capacity (MW) | Total installations | Capacity (MW) |
2010 | 1 | 9.1 | 25 | 0.2 | 26 | 9.3 |
2011 | 2 | 31.8 | 49 | 2.4 | 51 | 34.1 |
2012 | 2 | 43.2 | 146 | 5.2 | 148 | 48.4 |
2013 | 2 | 68.1 | 55 | 10.1 | 57 | 78.2 |
2014 | 1 | 8.1 | 130 | 21.9 | 131 | 30.0 |
2015 | 1 | 22.1 | 79 | 13.6 | 80 | 35.7 |
2016 | 3 | 248.3 | 65 | 17.3 | 68 | 265.5 |
2017 | 7 | 104.0 | 10 | 9.4 | 17 | 113.4 |
2018 | 1 | 56.8 | 4 | 1.9 | 5 | 58.7 |
Source: OFGEM ROC register and BEIS sub-regional Feed-in Tariff Statistics.