Saturday, January 25, 2014
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Friday, January 24, 2014
Collection: Energy Entrepeneurs Fund
This is a competitive funding scheme to support the development and demonstration of state of the art technologies, products and processes in the areas of energy efficiency, power generation and heat and electricity storage.
The Energy Entrepreneurs Fund seeks the best ideas, irrespective of source, across these energy technology areas from the public and private sector. The scheme particularly aims to assist small- and medium-sized enterprises, including start-ups, and those companies that are selected will receive additional funding for incubation support.
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Statement to Parliament: 28th offshore round of oil and gas licensing
I am pleased to inform the House that I am today inviting applications for petroleum licences for unlicensed seaward blocks, in the 28th new round of offshore petroleum licensing.
The UK oil and gas sector plays a vital role in the UK economy, supporting around 350,000 jobs and with record capital expenditure in 2013 of around £14 billion, and in meeting our energy needs. Indigenous oil and gas production supplies the equivalent of about half of the UK's primary energy demand. It is vital that we continue to do all we can to maximise economic recovery of indigenous hydrocarbon reserves. The licensing of new areas forms an essential part of our long term economic plan by enabling the exploration necessary to ensure we fully realise our remaining reserves which could be as much as another 20 billion barrels. This will boost growth, energy security, and jobs.
DECC's plan to offer licences for offshore oil and gas exploration and production through further licensing rounds was the subject of a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) completed in 2011 and the Environmental Report can be viewed via GOV.UK
The SEA includes commissioned reports on various components of the natural environment and effects of previous activities.
Following consultation, DECC considered all responses and a post consultation report for the latest SEA was published. The report can be viewed on GOV.UK
In deciding to proceed with a 28th offshore licensing round, DECC has had regard to the conclusions and recommendations of the Environmental Report and consultation feedback. As a result, blocks in the deepest waters of the South West approaches are currently not being offered as part of the 28th round because of inadequacy of data including potentially vulnerable components of the marine environment.
A number of blocks excluded from earlier licensing rounds on the basis of recommendations of previous SEAs are currently not being offered as part of the 28th round of offshore petroleum licensing. This includes the blocks in or overlapping with the boundaries of the Moray Firth and Cardigan Bay Special Area of Conservation.
In addition some blocks are currently withheld from this round of offshore petroleum licensing at the request of The Crown Estate as they overlie the Cleveland potash mine, and some at the request of the Ministry of Defence due to their use for intense military testing and training.
Licensing of the blocks not currently included in this round may be revisited in the future as more information on those blocks becomes available.
In addition, a number of blocks may be licensed but with conditions attached restricting or prohibiting certain marine activities. It should be noted that the Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1999 (as amended) and the Offshore Petroleum Activities (Conservation of Habitats) Regulations 2001 (as amended) variously require that all major activities undertaken in connection with UK offshore hydrocarbon exploration and production are subject to environmental assessment before consent can be given for these activities.
Before any licence awards are made, DECC will assess whether the grant of licences applied for is likely to have a significant effect on the management of any protected conservation sites. Where such effects cannot be excluded in respect of any proposed award, a further detailed assessment will be needed to determine whether there are any adverse effects on the integrity of these protected conservation sites. This is required under Council Directive 92/43/EEC on “the conservation of natural habitats and wild fauna and flora”, and the UK implementing regulations.
Applications in the Round will need to be submitted by 25th April 2014.
Press release: Recovery boost for North Sea oil and gas through the 28th licensing round
The economy is set to receive a further boost as the Government opens the 28th licensing round. Companies can now apply for new licences to drill for offshore oil and gas in the North Sea. Increasing recovery of UK oil and gas will enhance energy security, support thousands of jobs and provide billions in increased tax revenues.
The UK oil and gas sector already supports around 350,000 jobs, and last year attracted a record £14 billion of capital expenditure as well as supplying around half of the UK's primary energy demand.
Energy Minister Michael Fallon said:
“There continues to be extremely high level of interest in North Sea oil and gas, which is unsurprising when there could be as many as 20 billion barrels of oil still buried deep within the seabed. This new round of drilling for offshore oil and gas will help boost growth, energy security, and jobs in the UK.”
This latest licensing round supports the efforts of Government and industry's joint Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy, which is working to secure future decades of investment and production in the North Sea.
The previous 27th Licensing saw a record number of licences awarded, including 21 new entrants, and the level of interest demonstrates the continuing attractiveness of the UK's oil and gas resources. There are now over 50 companies at work in the North Sea.
Last year 36 offshore projects, with an associated capex of over £9 billion, were approved, which provide tax revenues of £6.5 billion on production and a further £5 billion through the wider supply-chain in corporate and payroll taxes.
Notes to editors
DECC's plan to offer licences for offshore oil and gas exploration and production through further licensing was the subject of a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) completed in 2011 and the Environmental Report can be viewed on GOV.UK
Applications will need to be submitted by 25th April 2014.
Regional specific detail
Employment is spread across the UK comprising:
Scotland – 45 per cent
South East England – 21 per cent
North West England – 6 per cent
West Midlands – 5 per cent
There are distinct clusters of high employment within the industry around the UK, with the Aberdeenshire area accounting for around 39% of the total employment. The other regions with sizable employment levels are East of England 5%, North West England 6%, and London and the South East 21%.
The sector offers highly skilled and qualified opportunities for young people and also for those looking to change career from other industries. Current forecasts for the next 5 years show there will be a requirement for an additional 15,000 employees.
The Oil and Gas Industrial strategy that was published last year includes an action to identify and address any skills gap so that the industry has the right expertise and adequate skills for the future both as a major producing region and as an international services centre.
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Npower to pay £3.5 million to benefit vulnerable consumers following our investigation
Thursday, January 23, 2014
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Corporate report: Department of Energy and Climate Change mid-year report 2013 - 2014
The Department of Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) mid-year report provides an update on progress made against the coalition priorities in the first 6 months of the 2013 to 2014 financial year.
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FOI release: People previously employed in the oil and gas industry
Request for information on people currently working at DECC, who joined during the last 3 years, previously employed in the oil and gas industry.
Statistics: Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and Renewable Heat Premium Payments (RHPP): quarterly statistics - December 2013
This quarterly publication provides a summary of the deployment of renewable heat technologies under the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) householder voucher schemes.
Statistics: RHI and RHPP deployment data: December 2013
The monthly statistics for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) programme present the number of applications and accredited installations on the scheme so far. These figures are broken down by technology type and region and application status. The publication also includes tables on the total capacity and heat generated.
The monthly statistics for the Renewable Heat Premium Payments (RHPP) scheme display the number of vouchers issued and redeemed for the scheme so far. This is broken into technology type and region. It also includes a table of the total installed capacity by technology type.
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Transparency data: Departmental spend over £500: December 2013
A monthly, updated list of all financial transactions spending over £500 made by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Transparency data: Government procurement card spend over £500: December 2013
A monthly list of spending over £500 made on the Government Procurement Card by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Speech: Towards Green Deal 2.0
Thank you to the UK Green Building Council for hosting today's event.
I am delighted to be here this morning.
I want to begin by saying; I very much welcome the report published today by the UK Green Building Council.
Constructive feedback and engagement from industry are key to helping make the Green Deal a success.
It is almost one year to the day since I formally launched the Green Deal so it is a good time to pause and reflect on progress.
There are 3 key points I would particularly like to stress in my speech today:
Firstly, as I look back on the Green Deal's first year, despite the critics, the programme has seen an encouraging start.
Secondly, I want to update you on the progress we are making to implement improvements to the programme having listened to feedback
Thirdly, we need to go further, much further and work hand in hand with industry to drive this programme forward
So to begin with, I want to set a little bit of context.
Since day one of coming into Government we have been committed to helping people to heat and light their homes more efficiently and more affordably.
We know that hardworking families are being hit by the rising cost of gas and electricity.
And we know that this is not helped by Britain having some of the oldest, leakiest and most inefficient building stock in Europe.
Consequently, the Coalition has promoted energy efficiency across the board and given it a priority that no previous Government has attempted.
You don't need me to tell you the importance of energy efficiency to our society.
Not only can it save individuals and businesses money on their bills, but it has many wider benefits too.
It can drive investment in our economy, helping UK industry to compete in the global race for green skills and growth. It can strengthen our security of supply and it can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
This Government aims to improve the relationship between demand and supply, developing an energy efficiency market where consumers are aware of the beneficial options available to them and where companies deliver profit making energy efficiency services as a matter of course.
Central to this vision is of course the Green Deal.
The Green Deal is a world-first and long-term initiative designed to upgrade the energy efficiency of Britain's homes.
The most ambitious home improvement Programme since the Second World War.
But it is exactly that, a home improvement programme, not just a programme to shift finance plans.
It has created a new, trustworthy market to empower bill payers to choose which energy-saving improvements are needed to make their homes warm more energy efficient and allow people to take control of their energy bills.
A market of clearly branded, trusted measures, trusted installers, trusted assessors and trusted companies.
At the very heart of the new Green Deal market is the strong consumer confidence in the Green Deal brand of certification.
The Green Deal is radical. It is opening up new choices and simultaneously new products and services.
As I said in my introduction it has been an encouraging first year for the Green Deal.
It has not exactly developed in the way we anticipated with a very slow start from the Big 6, but terrific growth from SMEs.
Together with the ECO, the Green Deal has improved over 400,000 homes in their first eleven months.
And crucially it is the number of measures installed, not the number of Green Deal finance plans that I want to focus on.
Today we announced new figures that show over a 129,000 assessments have been completed until the end of November and research published last week shows that 81% of those households have installed, are in the process or intend to install at least one measure.
Of those who have had measures installed, 87% are satisfied with the quality of the measures installed.
We have an exciting and sustainable supply chain with:
Over 125 authorised Green Deal providers.
Over 2,900 advisors registered to carry out Green Deal assessments.
And over 2,300 organisations now officially Green Deal approved to carry out installation.
So as I say, the foundations are in, there are good signals of growth but now we really need to inject more momentum.
And to do that, there are new incentives to drive up demand but also we are making a series of improvements to the Green Deal itself.
This brings me on to my second point.
We have been listening very carefully to feedback from industry.
We have listened to consumers and wider stakeholders recognising the need to balance ambition, against people's immediate concerns of consumers who fund any subsidy on their bills through their taxes.
In December we announced a £540M three year energy efficiency package for home buyers, landlords and public sector buildings as well as proposals to streamline the Green Deal
£450M funding for rebates for home buyers and to help private landlords improve their properties' energy efficiency.
To support supply chain jobs and really drive take up now, we have:
Quadrupled funds available to local authorities this year to £80m to promote Green Deal on a street by street basis, incentivising the delivery of hard to treat cavity and solid wall insulation. A critically important boost to my vision and ambitions community backed street by street roll out which has had a terrific response in local authorities.
Extended the current Green Deal cash back scheme to June and reviewed the values including uplifting solid wall insulation to £4,000.
Worked with energy companies to promote a stronger mix of ECO and Green Deal finance.
We have also established a Green Deal Working Group, led by Sir Ian Cheshire, Chief Executive of Kingfisher to further simplify the Green Deal process to make it easier for both consumers to access and SMEs to install measures.
Over the coming weeks we will be announcing:
Further improvements to the Green Deal – such as enabling consumers to complete a Green Deal finance plan in one day – and adjustments to Green Deal finance.
Details on the new homeowner's energy efficiency rebate.
Further Green Deal incentives to drive the market.
A substantial government led marketing campaign, including messages to catalyse action on RHI launch.
We have already been in close contact with many of you here today and I would encourage you to continue to feed-in your views.
This is the year when the Green Deal goes up a gear
But this brings me to my third point, that this is a joint endeavour between Government and industry.
We have worked hard together to get this far.
And my key message today is that we need to stick together and to partner effectively to make sure we keep up the momentum.
To succeed we will need to leverage your expertise, your reach with customers, your communications capacity, and your experience of what works and what doesn't.
Helping us, help you, win business, get working on improving people's homes, get their boilers replaced, their walls insulated and their windows double-glazed.
So I don't want to raise unrealistic expectations but over, 129,000 Green Deal Assessments in 11 months, leading to over 80% taking action with over 87% satisfaction rating.
This is a great base to build on, to scale up and mobilise, and in 2014, we will.
Government response: Response to the European Commission 2030 White Paper on climate change
In response to the European Commission 2030 White Paper on climate change, Edward Davey, Secretary of State Energy and Climate Change said:
“Today's proposals are a step in the right direction towards an ambitious emissions reduction target for Europe. They provide the flexibility to tackle climate change in the most cost-effective way, so that British consumers aren't paying over the odds to go green. This package backs the green growth agenda I've been working for with other European colleagues.
“A 40% GHG target for Europe is a good start which the UK fought hard for, and will lead to massive investment in low carbon energy, including many more renewables.
“Yet Britain has been clear that Europe must be ready to adopt a 50% target if the rest of the world is prepared to sign an ambitious global climate deal in 2015.
“It's good news that the Commission has listened to the UK argument that countries must be allowed to decarbonise in the cheapest way possible. However, the UK remains concerned about any renewables target especially as the debate within Parliament and the British green movement has moved on to technology neutral options like a decarbonisation target as the most cost effective and practical way of fighting climate change.
“The reform package for Europe's Carbon market is another important and welcome step in the right direction. We had proposed more comprehensive reforms but these proposals have the potential to revive the EU ETS and deliver more emissions reductions at least cost.
“The recognition that shale gas has an important role to play in cutting carbon as we move away from coal is also welcome. The UK pushed hard for proposals on shale gas to be robust but proportionate and I am pleased that the Commission has recognised that existing directives already cover the environmental issues shale gas raises. In the UK, we already have robust regulation in place and we must be careful to avoid delaying this emerging industry by years of debate over regulation that simply duplicates.
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E.ON proposes changes at Stoke, Sandbach, Thornhill and Castleford CCGT sites
E.ON has today (WED) announced that it plans to close its Stoke CCGT facility therefore removing 56MWe of UK generating capacity due to the lack of viable commercial options for the plant. In addition the company has announced that operations structures at Sandbach, Castleford and Thornhill CCGT facilities will also be altered to further reduce costs reflecting the new realities of running generation CCGT sites in the current economic climate. These facilities can provide up to 162MWe to the grid when required.
E.ON is working closely with employees and contractors across the four sites to discuss potential options during and beyond the restructuring process.
Commenting on the announcement Richard Pennells, E.ON's UK Country Director Steam and CCGT, said:
“Our absolute priorities are working to support our colleagues and contractors through this change.
“Over the last five years E.ON has invested over £6bn in the UK's energy infrastructure but there is no doubt that the operational environment remains very challenging, particularly for CCGT power stations which in many areas are continuing to fight for survival in the current market, providing increasing uncertainty around future generating capacity planning.”
Ends
For more information contact:
Victoria Blake (02476 181 304)
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Government response: Npower energy bills analysis
Npower's analysis of the impact of energy bills is misleading on so many levels.
Government estimates that the impact of our social and environmental programmes will in fact lower energy bills compared to what they would be in the absence of our policies, by as much as £166 in 2020.
A number of the policies listed by Npower don't have any impact on household energy bills, including the Renewable Heat Incentive, Climate Change Levy and the Carbon Reduction Commitment.
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FOI release: Emails and correspondence related to the setting up of meetings with Centrica and SSE
Request for information on emails and correspondence related to the setting up of meetings with DECC Special Advisers Centrica and SSE on 25 and 26 September 2013.
Transparency data: Special Advisers' gifts and hospitality received: July to September 2013
Quarterly lists of DECC Special Advisers' gifts and hospitality and meetings with newspaper and other media proprietors, editors and senior executives.
Transparency data: Ministers' overseas travel: July to September 2013
Quarterly lists of DECC ministers' overseas travel.
Transparency data: Michael Fallon's meetings with external organisations: July to September 2013
Quarterly lists of DECC Ministers' meetings that involved outside interested parties.
Transparency data: Michael Fallon's gifts given and received over £140: July to September 2013
Quarterly lists of DECC ministers' gifts and hospitality.
Transparency data: Greg Barker's meetings with external organisations: July to September 2013
Quarterly lists of DECC Ministers' meetings that involved outside interested parties.
Transparency data: Greg Barker's gifts given and received over £140: July to September 2013
Quarterly lists of DECC ministers' gifts and hospitality.
FOI release: Edward Davey's meetings with external organisations: July to September 2013
Quarterly lists of DECC Ministers' meetings that involved outside interested parties.
Transparency data: Edward Davey's gifts given and received over £140: July to September 2013
Quarterly lists of DECC ministers' gifts and hospitality.
Transparency data: Baroness Verma's meetings with external organisations: July to September 2013
Quarterly lists of DECC Ministers' meetings that involved outside interested parties.
Transparency data: Baroness Verma's gifts given and received over £140: July to September 2013
Quarterly lists of DECC ministers' gifts and hospitality.
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Transparency data: DECC senior staff information: 30 September 2013
Reports prior to 31 March 2013 are available from the National Archive.
Transparency data: DECC junior staff information: 30 September 2013
Previous returns are available from the National Archive.
Transparency data: DECC senior staff information: 31 March 2013
Returns prior to March 2012 are available from the National Archive.
Transparency data: DECC junior staff information: 31 March 2013
Reports prior to 31 March 2013 are available from the National Archive.
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Statistics: Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO): monthly statistics (January 2014)
This release presents the latest statistics on the Green Deal (GD) for the domestic sector (including information on GD Assessments, Plans, Cashback and the GD supply chain). It also includes information on ECO brokerage and the latest statistics on measures installed under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO).
The statistics presented in this release and tables include numbers recorded in each of the given months and the total to date. This is directly taken from a variety of sources including the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) and Occupancy Assessment (OA) central register. These statistics are provisional and are subject to future revisions.
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FOI release: UK’s 2013 Submission of EU ETS free allocations
Response to request for copies of the UK's 22 October 2013 and 27 November 2013 submissions of EU ETS free allocations to the European Commission
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FOI release: FID Enabling applications for Investment Contracts
Response to request for information on applications for an Investment Contract in Phase 2 of FID Enabling
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Correspondence: DECC grant for participation in SACSESS EU project
Nuclear power plays a key role in limiting the EU's emissions of greenhouse gases and makes an important contribution to improving its independence, security and diversity of energy supply. SACSESS is an EU collaborative project under the FP7 framework with 26 partners. It aims at optimising chemical separation processes that would be required for future closed nuclear cycles by focusing on all the safety issues related to the industrial implementation of a chemical process involving actinides.
DECC are providing National Nuclear Laboratory Ltd with a grant to enable them to undertake aspects of the programme relevant to UK nuclear expansion scenarios of 40 – 75GW that could involve a transition to Generation IV systems. In these high level scenarios spent fuel will need to be recycled both to manage the inventory and to provide the fuels for the Generation IV reactors.