Renewables Roadmap Published

Plans to publish a UK Bioenergy strategy announced
18 July 2011

The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Rt Hon Chris Huhne MP, published a Whie Paper on Electricity Market Reform, which included the UK's first Renewable Energy Roadmap. The White Paper aims to diversify the UK's electricity mis, and boost investment in secure, sustainable and homegrown low-carbon technologies. As a supporting document, the Renewables Roadmap outlines plans to overconme hurdles to using renewable energy. The Roadmap identifies eight technologies that have the most potential in the UK, including biomass heat and biomass energy, and proposes key priority actions for both, including the publication of a UK Bioenergy Strategy. This strategy wull outline a path for the growth of biomass energy and the implementation of the Renewable Heat Incentive to ensure renewable heat that renewable heat from biomass can compete with fossil fuels.