Renewable Energy: Finance

(asked on 24th October 2022) - View Source

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

To ask His Majesty's Government how much consumers were paid back from renewable energy schemes signed up to the Contracts for Difference schemes in the two quarters since April this year.


Answered by
Lord Callanan Portrait
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 8th November 2022

Renewable generators signed up to the Contracts for Difference scheme make payments to energy suppliers, rather than directly to consumers.

The total CfD payments made to suppliers relating to the last two quarters was:

£258,813,576.63.

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