Written Evidence Feb. 08 2024
Inquiry: Renewable Energy and Net Zero in Northern IrelandFound: REN0041 - Renewable Energy and Net Zero in Northern Ireland The Association for Consultancy and Engineering
Written Evidence Feb. 08 2024
Inquiry: Renewable Energy and Net Zero in Northern IrelandFound: REN0004 - Renewable Energy and Net Zero in Northern Ireland Brunel University London Written Evidence
Written Evidence Feb. 08 2024
Inquiry: Renewable Energy and Net Zero in Northern IrelandFound: REN0037 - Renewable Energy and Net Zero in Northern Ireland Future Renewables Written Evidence
Written Evidence May. 08 2024
Inquiry: Economics of the energy sectorFound: ECO0006 - Economics of the energy sector Northumbria University Written Evidence
Written Evidence Feb. 08 2024
Inquiry: Renewable Energy and Net Zero in Northern IrelandFound: REN0028 - Renewable Energy and Net Zero in Northern Ireland Stream Bioenergy Written Evidence
Asked by: Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat - North Shropshire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that financing is available to farmers who wish to invest in sustainable energy projects.
Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Farming Investment Fund has supported renewable energy projects through its grants for rooftop solar. In our recent Improving Farm Productivity grant, farmers and horticultural businesses in England were able to apply for capital grants towards solar equipment to increase energy resilience and the take-up of renewable energy generation on their farms. Grants of between £15,000 and £100,000 were available at an intervention rate of 25%. This scheme has now closed for new applications. We will continue to consider how to support farmers to invest in renewable energy projects in the future.
Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) and renewable energy. - Speech Link
2: Lord Tunnicliffe (Lab - Life peer) We then turn the energy captured in those plants into fuel and burn it in vehicle engines and so forth - Speech Link
3: None Although the EU’s renewable energy directive allows the support of RCFs, no EU country has yet implemented - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) The Climate Change Committee is clear that sustainable biomass can provide a low-carbon and renewable - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) are not third-world countries—that are renewable, sustainable and properly managed. - Speech Link
3: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) energy source if the wood that is being used is a renewable and sustainable harvest”. - Speech Link
4: Lord Geddes (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, on the general subject of renewable energy, in the announcement yesterday of two new gas-fired - Speech Link
Written Evidence Feb. 27 2024
Inquiry: Enabling sustainable electrification of the UK economyFound: ESE0073 - Enabling sustainable electrification of the UK economy District Councils’ Network Written Evidence
Written Evidence Jan. 31 2024
Inquiry: Renewable Energy and Net Zero in Northern IrelandFound: REN0021 - Renewable Energy and Net Zero in Northern Ireland NI Commission for Children and Young People