HC Deb 07 May 1991 vol 190 cc373-4W
Mr. Wallace

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will list his Department's current and planned renewable energy programmes in Scotland by type, cost, site location and capacity.

Mr. Moynihan

A total of 38 renewable energy projects currently being carried out under my Department's research, development and demonstration programme have a contractor or site located in Scotland. They comprise:

Technology Projects Contract Value
£ million
Wind 14 15.5
Biomass 13 2.8
Solar 6 0.8
Geothermal 1 0.6
Wave/Hydro 4 0.3

Wind

  • 3MW Aerogenerator at Burgar Hill
  • 60 WTG performance monitoring phase 4
  • Additional monitoring of Shetland HWP 750
  • Wind turbine control systems modelling and design
  • The influence of noise on wind turbine design
  • Yaw system loads of HAWTS
  • Evaluation of the concept of a stall limited rotor
  • Fast acting control of wind turbines
  • Wind energy resource in Caithness and Sutherland
  • MS-3 for NEL test site
  • Feasibility of testing WT incorp advanced tip cont rotor
  • Aerodynamic braking and control devices HAWTS
  • Development of MW-rated WTS using WEG LS-1 orkney
  • Design/test controller for variable speed turbine

Biomass

  • Elucidation of interspecies interactions
  • Peat as fuel
  • RDF combustion
  • Straw ash chemistry study
  • Straw combustion—Fluid bed boiler
  • Harvesting processing and storing trials
  • Support services in forestry for energy
  • Development of fuelwood harvesting systems
  • Forest residue communition and screening
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  • Single stem trees as energy crops
  • Large scale trials of short rotation coppice
  • Trials of single stem energy plantations
  • Trials of short rotation coppice phase 2 and 3

Solar

  • Development bredem for passive solar application
  • Consultancy for the CEC Passys test cell project
  • Internal convective heat transfer coefficients
  • Continued participation with CEC Passys project
  • ESP support and enhancement
  • Operation of an extended pilot DAS

Geothermal

  • Seismic monitoring in South West England

Wave/Hydro

  • Telemetry demonstration
  • Small scale low cost wave power device phase 2
  • Transfer of PDP2 tapes
  • Consultancy on review of NEL—OWC

Mr. Wigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy how much has been allocated in research and development moneys by his Department to cover(a) nuclear power and (b) renewable energy in each year from 1979.

Mr. Moynihan

The figures are given in the table:

Nuclear energy Renewables
£ million £ million
1979–80 145.5 8.2
1980–81 188.0 11.3
1981–82 203.2 15.3
1982–83 212.4 12.7
1983–84 203.8 11.9
1984–85 196.2 14.9
1985–86 189.6 13.6
1986–87 159.7 12.5
1987–88 141.0 16.1
1988–89 159.3 16.3
1989–90 135.9 17.9
1990–91 133.5 20.3
11991–92 93.4 24.5
1 Estimate.

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