The Department of Trade and Industry, through the Technology Programme, and the Research Councils' expenditure in support of research and related training is given in the following table.
In addition, the Research Councils (RCs) are providing funding of £13.88 million over the period 2004-09 for the UK Energy Research Centre (which undertakes a range of research relating to sustainable energy) and energy is included in the work of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (which has some £15.8 million funding from the Research Councils over 2000-08).
Technology Funding body Funding for 2001-02 Funding for 2002-03 Funding for 2003-04 Funding for 2004-05 Funding for 2005-06 Nuclear fission DTI1 2.00 2.10 2.10 2.20 2.30 RCs 0.33 0.31 0.21 0.11 0.95 Nuclear fusion DTI 14.40 14.80 0 0 0 RCs2 0 0 15.90 22.70 20.60 Clean coal DTI 4.40 3.00 5.00 36.50 4— RCs5 1.12 1.35 1.25 1.83 1.93 Solar PV DTI 1.50 4.50 3.10 2.00 4— RCs 3.54 2.77 2.38 2.68 2.53 Wind power DTI 1.20 1.40 1.40 1.50 4— RCs 0.33 0.49 0.48 0.24 0.13 Hydro DTI 0.10 0.20 0.10 0 4— RCs6 — — — — — Marine DTI 1.00 2.70 5.00 1.30 4— RCs 0.61 0.62 0.83 1.00 1.03 Biomass DTI 1.30 1.60 3.20 1.00 4— RCs7 0.75 0.93 1.18 1.25 2.02 1 Expenditure is to assist emergency support arrangements provided by the Met Office in the event of a nuclear release into the atmosphere, and includes a contribution towards the cost of the underpinning meteorological modelling capability. This funding is not provided through the Technology Programme.2 Responsibility for funding fusion transferred from DTI to EPSRC in April 2003.3 Estimated figure.4 Final figures for DTI spend in 2005-06 are not available at this time.5 Expenditure by Research Councils on conventional energy including clean coal technologies, but excluding carbon capture and storage.6 Very low level of expenditure cannot be established definitively at this time.7 Includes Research Council expenditure on biofuels.