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		Written answer
	answer has question	f5SftRnA
	answer has answering person	Graham Charles Stuart
	answer text	<p>Hydropower accounts for approximately 2% of total electricity generation in the UK. Most current deployment is in a small run of river projects which tend to be relatively expensive.</p><p> </p><p>Studies in Scotland, England and Wales indicate that there is a maximum remaining technical potential of around 1.5GW for small-scale hydro, including existing weirs.</p><p> </p><p>Economic and environmental constraints mean that in practice the viable remaining resource is less than 1GW, which represents less than 1% of total generation capacity, so is not a significant contributor to the Government's future generation plans</p>
	answer given date	2023-04-24
	answer has answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
	written answer has answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	answering body has written answer	zf3eaAVf
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	answering body has answer	zf3eaAVf
f5SftRnA	question has answer	zf3eaAVf
Graham Charles Stuart	answering person has answer	zf3eaAVf