Lindsay Roy

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps his Department is taking to encourage renewable energy; and if he will make a statement. ( 314483 )

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Mr. Kidney

We published the Renewable Energy Strategy (RES) in July last year and this set out the comprehensive action plan that the UK Government have for achieving an almost seven-fold increase in the use of renewable energy by 2020. A copy of the Strategy has been deposited in the Libraries of both Houses.

The Government are fully committed to delivering the UK’s share of the overall EU target for renewable energy and transforming our energy use at the scale required. In order to meet our targets, we need to bring about significant and dramatic change through a range of measures including the provision of appropriate incentives and the removal of financial barriers, and the Government are working to create the right conditions for companies to invest in renewable energy projects across the country.

The Office for Renewable Energy Deployment (ORED) was also set up in July 2009 to take forward the commitments in the RES, including overcoming the non-financial barriers to deployment and the supply chain blockages and promoting business opportunities in the renewable sector in the UK.

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