Oral Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
“What steps he is taking to help increase levels of onshore wind energy production.”
Tabled: 12 September 2024Answered: 8 October 2024
Asked by
Gideon Amos
Liberal Democrat — Taunton and Wellington
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Ed Miliband)
After nine years of the disastrous, bill-raising ban on onshore wind in England, this Government overturned the ban in our first 72 hours in office. We have also set up the onshore wind taskforce to restore the pipeline of projects destroyed by the last Government. In the recent renewables auction, almost 1 GW of onshore wind was secured at prices that make it among the lowest-cost power sources to build and operate.