Mr. Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Energy what is the current annual rate of public expenditure on renewable energy sources research in each of the European Community countries, converted to pound sterling at the present rate of exchange.
Mr. Buchanan-SmithThe most recent information available to me, collected on a comparable basis, is as follows:
Member State Annual Expenditure (1982) (£ million) Belgium 4.3 Denmark 2.1 Germany 50.4 France 25.0 Greece 4.0 Ireland 3.0 Italy 26.4 Netherlands 13.5 United Kingdom 16.5 (a) Information is not available for Luxembourg.
(b) Data are from surveys made by the International Energy Agency or the Commission of the European Community.
(c)Technologies included are:
- solar energy
- geothermal energy
- wind energy
- energy from biomass
- ocean energy