RENEWABLE ENERGY VIEW 2015 Executive Summary
Renewable energy should continue to grow strongly if the policy environment is supportive
RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY GENERATION ACHIEVED TO 2014 AND PROJECTED BY DECC TO 2020
Projected by DECC 2015-2020 (UEP)
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Achieved to date
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verall, the UK has made considerable recent progress towards meeting its renewable objectives. Arguably, the UK is
on track to meet the Renewable Energy Directive target of 15% of energy being renewable by 2020. Nevertheless, the growth rate required for the next five years remains very steep – and one of the highest for any EU Member State. The overall figures mask stark differences between sectors and individual technologies.
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Renewable electricity generation
(supported by the Renewables Obligation and Feed-in Tariff) has grown steadily, increasing on average by 25.9% year-on-year between 2009 and 2014. This sector has the strongest claim to being on track for 2020. Major uncertainties remain, with the Renewables Obligation due to close to new entrants from 2017 and the first Contracts for Difference having only just been awarded. Renewable heat generation has also grown
steadily, increasing on average by 13.4% year-on-year between 2009 and 2013 (the last full year for which data are available). Although only a small portion of the whole, the Renewable Heat Incentive has expanded rapidly over that time.
The non-domestic policy is dominated by biomass boilers and biomethane injection to the grid, while the domestic policy has seen 7,106 installations spread more evenly across biomass boilers, heat pumps and solar thermal. Despite this growth, the sector is a
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