Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what progress has been made in achieving the level of renewable deployment set out in her Department's energy market review implementation plan.

My Department recently published updated analysis on estimated capacity of key renewable technologies in 2020/21, compared to the 2013 Electricity Market Reform Delivery Plan. Even with proposed cost control measures, we are on course to meet the Delivery Plan ranges and to deliver at least 30% of the UK's electricity from renewable sources by 2020. In 2014, nearly a fifth of the UK's electricity came from renewables.