Biofuels: Subsidies

(asked on 27th October 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, in context of biomass fuel, what scientific advice his Department received when deciding that only 70 per cent of wood pellets would need to come from sustainable forests to qualify for renewable subsidies.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 3rd November 2021

The Government only supports sustainable biomass and generators only receive subsidies for compliant biomass. All biomass must be legally harvested in accordance with national legislation of the sourcing country. Generators are required to demonstrate that at least 70% of all biomass must be sustainable. In developing the new Biomass Strategy, the Government will assess the UK’s existing biomass sustainability standards, which are already some of the world’s most stringent, to see where and how they can be improved even further.

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