To ask the Secretary of State for Energy, pursuant to his answer of 12 November, Official Report, column 76, how many schemes submitted for inclusion in the renewable tranche of the non-fossil fuel obligation have not formed contracts with the 12 regional electricity companies; and what is the total generating capacity of these schemes.

Details of the projects initially submitted by generators for contracting within the non-fossil fuel obligation were given in a parliamentary written answer by my right hon. Friend the then Minister of State for Energy on 5 July 1990 at column 669, to which I refer the hon. Member. Details of the projects actually contracted were given in my parliamentary written answer of 30 October 1990, at columns 443–44. Those projects which proved not ready to contract under this year's renewables order will have a further opportunity under a renewables order which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State proposes to make next year.