Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much electricity was produced from (a) wind, (b) tidal, (c) biomass, (d) solar, (e) hydro and (f) geothermal power in (i) Gloucestershire and (ii) England in each of the last five years.

The amount of electricity (in gigawatt hours) generated by wind, tidal, biomass, solar, and hydro generation in England in each of the last five years is as follows:

Source: statistics from the latest quarterly edition of Energy Trends, tables ET 6.1, available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-section-6-renewables

There is no electricity generation from geothermal sources in the UK.

Official statistics on renewable electricity generation are not collected at county level. However, they are available at local authority level (for 2014 and 2015 currently). The table below gives the combined figure for Gloucester, South Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Cotswold, Forest of Dean and Stroud local authorities for the two years available. Figures for 2016 will be available on 28 September 2017.

Source: Renewable electricity by local authority, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/regional-renewable-statistics