Renewable Energy - 5th February 2015

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Renewable Energy.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-02-05/debates/15020543000010/RenewableEnergy

Mr Andrew Robathan (South Leicestershire) (Con)

2. What estimate he has made of the proportion of electricity demand that will be met by renewable energy in 2015 compared with 2010.

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The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Matthew Hancock)

We have doubled the amount of renewable energy from 6.8% of electricity in 2010 to more than 14% of electricity generation.

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09:45 Mr Robathan

So it is true: this is the greenest Government ever. Will my right hon. Friend tell us what proportion of that electricity is generated by onshore wind? Can he confirm that onshore wind is the most mature, least expensive, and most efficient form of renewable energy, and is actually pretty popular?

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Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op)

The Minister knows that some Liberal Democrat voices in the Government are keen on this being a green Government, but the fact is that there are climate change deniers in his own party in other Departments. Every time wind power is brought in, it is knocked down by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. The Minister knows there is a subversive element in the Government who hate anything to do with renewable energy.

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Matthew Hancock

I know my hon. Friend has a concern about solar panels being put in inappropriate places. There are appropriate places for solar to go, especially on roofs and in brownfield sites. That is, of course, a matter for a strong planning system, in which those local decisions are rightly made, but that does not take away from the fact that we have so much more renewable energy than we did just five short years ago.

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