Solar Power

(asked on 7th October 2020) - View Source

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase the amount of energy generated from solar power; and how they plan to assist private and public sector businesses (1) to start, or (2) to increase, generating solar power on land they own or occupy.


Answered by
Lord Callanan Portrait
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 20th October 2020

Solar PV is a UK success story and a key part of the government’s strategy for low cost decarbonisation of the energy sector.

Achieving our ambitious 2050 Net Zero target will require significant increases in renewable electricity generation, and we will need to increase deployment across a range of technologies, including solar PV. This is why government announced on 2 March 2020 that large scale solar PV projects will be able to compete in the next Contracts for Difference (CfD) allocation round. The round will open in late 2021 and aim to deliver up to double the renewable capacity of last year’s successful round, potentially providing enough clean energy for up to 10 million homes.

Small scale solar PV generators can receive payment for the renewable electricity that they export to the grid under the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG), introduced in January 2020. Generators can choose from several tariffs, which in some cases are higher than the export tariff provided under the previous Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme.

Both public and private sector businesses are entitled to seek support for new and extension solar PV projects under the CfD or SEG scheme, provided they satisfy the relevant eligibility requirements.

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