§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will break down, by programme, the budget for renewable energy for the period 2002–03 to 2005–06. [162046]
§ Mr. TimmsThe DTI has announced £348 million of support for renewable energy for this period.
Not all of this expenditure has yet been allocated to specific projects or programmes, but the following major allocations have been made:
- £19 million per year for research, development, demonstration and promotion of renewable energy technologies
- Offshore wind capital grants—£117 million
- Biomass capital grants—£66 million
- Photovoltaics demonstration programme—£25 million
- Community and household projects—£10 million
- Wave and tidal projects—£5 million
- Embedded generation projects—£5 million.
The figure of £348 million does not include Defra planting grants for energy crops or expenditure by the Research Councils on renewable energy related academic research.