§ 26. Mr. Crouchasked the Secretary of State for Energy what are his Department's priorities within its programme of support for the benign alternative energy technologies.
§ Mr. John MooreThe purpose of my Department's research and development programmes on wind, wave, tidal, solar and geothermal energy is to establish the extent to which these sources might be exploited economically in the United Kingdom. The technologies involved are insufficiently developed to allow these sources to be ranked in order of relative priority.