Non-fossil Fuel Obligation

HC Deb 22 October 1991 vol 196 cc512-3W

Mr. Speller

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy when he will announce the combined capacity and individual capacity per technology for the components of the non-fossil fuel obligation generation of electricity; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Soley

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make it his policy to require the production of 165 MW of wind energy in the non-fossil fuel obligation.

Mr. Moynihan

My right hon. Friend will set the level and structure of the 1991 renewables non-fossil fuel obligation after he has completed his statutory consultations with the Director-General of Electricity Supply and with the regional electricity companies.

Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what special arrangements he has in mind to encourage renewable energy projects in Scotland of equivalent commercial viability to those proposed in England and Wales to be enabled to contract their supply via the Non-Fossil Fuel Purchasing Agency.

Mr. Heathcoat-Amory

The future exploitation of renewable energy sources in Scotland is being considered by my Department's renewable energy advisory group. The Government will carefully consider the group's report when it is available.

Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what proposals he has for altering the relative and absolute size of the bands in the second tranche of the non-fossil fuel obligation.

Mr. Heathcoat-Amory

My right hon. Friend will decide his policy for the 1991 renewables order when he has completed the statutory consultations.