Wind Power
Energy and Climate Change
Written answers and statements, 9 November 2009
Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of progress on installation of wind powered generation to contribute to his 2020 targets.
David Kidney (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Energy and Climate Change; Stafford, Labour)
We currently have 4 gigawatts (GW) of operational wind power. Electricity generation from offshore wind increased by 67 per cent. from 2007 to 2008 alone. We also achieved a 29 per cent. increase in electricity generation from onshore wind over the same period.
The UK does not have any targets for wind power generation in 2020. However, under the lead scenario in the recently published Renewable Energy Strategy, more than 30 per cent. of our electricity could be generated from renewables by 2020. Much of this would be from onshore and offshore wind.