Gregory Campbell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2016-02-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the amount of wind energy that will be generated in each of the next five years.
Andrea Leadsom
The table below sets out total estimated wind energy generation to the nearest terawatt hour, from 2015/16 to 2020/21. These estimates include both onshore and offshore wind generation and are consistent with LCF spend projections published in November 2015 and updated renewable capacity projections, published alongside updates to the Feed in Tariff Scheme in December 2015.
|
Generation (TWh) |
2015/16 |
2016/17 |
2017/18 |
2018/19 |
2019/20 |
2020/21 |
|
Total Wind |
36 |
44 |
53 |
60 |
66 |
71 |
Source:
http://cdn.budgetresponsibility.independent.gov.uk/EFO_November__2015.pdf
Breakdown of LCF spend projections up to 2020 is set out in fiscal supplementary table 2.7 at http://cdn.budgetresponsibility.independent.gov.uk/Fiscal__Supplementary__Tables_November__2015.xls;
Updated renewable capacity projections https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486285/20151217_Estimated_capacity_by_technology_2020-21.pdf;
FiTs projections
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-a-review-of-the-feed-in-tariff-schemev
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