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HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I understand from the statement by the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, that his Amendments 137, 139 and 140 are probing amendments, but I will seek to provide some clarity on…14 Dec 2022HANSARDClean Energy: InvestmentOf course, we liaise very closely with the Climate Change Committee. There is a huge amount of investment going into energy infrastructure. I have referred in the House before to…14 Dec 2022HANSARDClean Energy: InvestmentDriving investment into UK clean energy is a priority for this Government to improve energy security, reduce emissions and boost jobs and growth across the country. We are backing…14 Dec 2022HANSARDClean Energy: InvestmentThe noble Baroness makes a very good point. One of the policy challenges we will have is how to use some of what she refers to as excess clean energy. With renewables being…14 Dec 2022HANSARDClean Energy: InvestmentIndeed, I agree with the noble Baroness, which is why we are supporting the deployment of CCUS with our £1 billion infrastructure fund.14 Dec 2022HANSARDClean Energy: InvestmentAs the noble Lord correctly says, the rolling out of charging points is the responsibility of the DfT, but I know that it has an extensive programme of grant support. Clearly some…14 Dec 2022HANSARDClean Energy: InvestmentWithout getting into supporting particular types of technology, I certainly agree with my noble friend that the rollout of nuclear is particularly important. It offers large-scale…14 Dec 2022HANSARDClean Energy: InvestmentThe noble Lord makes a very good point. We have been particularly successful in rolling out offshore wind in this country. I have made the point before that we have by far the…14 Dec 2022HANSARDClean Energy: InvestmentThe noble Baroness is right that the contracts for difference scheme has been extremely successful. Many of the generators are now paying back into the system because the strike…14 Dec 2022HANSARDClean Energy: InvestmentThe noble Baroness knows how much I hate to disagree with her but as usual, of course, she is wrong. I am not going to get into the business of the Cumbria mine but of course…14 Dec 2022HANSARDBiomass StrategyMy Lords, the Government have committed to publishing a biomass strategy, due in quarter 2, 2023. The UK source of woody biomass for energy predominantly comes from managed…14 Dec 2022HANSARDBiomass StrategyAs the noble Baroness is aware, the UK supports only biomass that complies with very strict sustainability criteria. Following the programme to which she refers, government…14 Dec 2022HANSARDBiomass StrategyMy noble friend has a direct way of putting these things, as always. As I said, there are very strict sustainability criteria that production is monitored against. What I would…14 Dec 2022HANSARDBiomass StrategyThey are two different systems, but the noble Lord is essentially correct. As I said earlier, the UK supports only biomass which complies with strict sustainability criteria.…14 Dec 2022HANSARDBiomass StrategyMy noble friend makes a good point and there is clearly sometimes a difference between crops that are used for fuel and those that could be used for food, and we always have to…14 Dec 2022HANSARDBiomass StrategyI cannot give the noble Lord a precise timescale, but, of course, we always keep these matters under review and we will look at it very closely.14 Dec 2022HANSARDBiomass StrategyMost of the forests from which these supplies come are of course commercial forests. They are established for the purposes of growing wood for construction and other methods, and…14 Dec 2022HANSARDBiomass StrategyI am afraid the noble Lord is completely wrong; we are acting on that. There are already food waste collections from many local authorities around the country. We have the green…14 Dec 2022HANSARDBiomass Strategy“Yes” is the short answer to my noble friend’s question. We want to make sure that it comes not from proper indigenous forests but comes as a by-product from commercially managed…14 Dec 2022HANSARDBiomass StrategyThese are factors that are taken into consideration when the overall sustainability of the procedure is looked at. They are monitored by Ofgem to make sure that all the pellets…14 Dec 2022