Speeches

Will Quince – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Will Quince on 2016-03-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the UK’s energy was generated from renewable sources in the last 12 months.

Amber Rudd

In 2014, the latest full year for which data is available, 7 per cent of the UK’s energy came from renewable sources, and 19 per cent of the UK’s electricity. This is a 15 per cent increase from the level of electricity generated from renewable sources in 2010.