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 the declared net capacity is of onshore windfarms in the UK; and what percentage of his wind targets for 2020 that figure represents.
David Kidney (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Energy and Climate Change; Stafford, Labour)
The total declared net capacity of wind power in 2008 was 1,432 megawatts (MW). Onshore wind's share of this was 1,188 MW(1). 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.
(1) Source:
DUKES 2009, table 7.1.1:
http://decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/source/renewables/renewabkes.aspx