The Department and Research Councils expenditure on R and D on renewable energy technologies from 1996 is set out in the following tables. It has not been possible to collate expenditure since 1990 in the time available at proportionate cost.
£ 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 Bioenergy 2,575,853 1,464,922 1,193,500 1,664,159 1,353,942 1,348,962 Hydrogen 141,884 56,950 79,965 137,731 60,269 129,626 Solar/PV 1,889,415 1,672,937 1,006,877 1,282,761 1,265,798 1,522,106 Wave and Tidal 54,865 7,670 95,649 20,442 360,849 968,033 Wind 2,377,360 1,246,222 957,769 808,587 912,822 1,247,901 Total 7,039,377 4,448,701 3,333,760 3,913,680 3,953,680 5,216,628
2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Bioenergy 1,637,073 1,604,705 974,222 879,123 301,055 Hydrogen 200,391 85,244 33,045 — 8,088 Solar/PV 4,484,914 3,130,705 1,970,338 1,782,327 1,127,622 Wave and Tidal 2,744,782 5,018,572 1,235,488 1,655,194 2,257,894 Wind 1,427,651 1,394,696 1,459,598 1,136,774 844,752 Total 10,494,811 11,233,922 5,672,691 5,453,418 4,539,411
£000 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 Biofuel 0 0 0 22 52 144 135 92 184 Biomass 447 871 736 601 701 783 1,043 1,158 1,840 CHP 4 36 63 77 267 357 226 71 51 CO2 sequestration 0 0 0 23 42 78 30 966 1,072 Fuel cells 888 1,012 703 899 1,145 1,468 1,193 917 1,207 Hydrogen and other Vectors 30 136 59 83 319 517 1,494 1,477 1,499 Solar 1,440 1,286 1,076 1,134 1,130 1,157 1,453 1,503 1,534 Photovoltaic 2,255 3,002 2,760 2,992 3,536 2,770 2,381 2,676 2,531 Wave and tidal 0 157 175 301 606 617 830 995 1,026 Wind 200 226 178 261 330 490 482 243 125 Waste 66 10 40 40 96 125 169 154 79 Geothermal 0 0 0 40 65 64 73 79 106 Storage 326 650 670 838 889 810 730 467 789 Networks 1,348 1,168 1,081 919 1,115 1,388 1,805 2,390 3,666 Other renewable 0 49 49 128 28 28 28 30 114 Total renewable 7,003 8,602 7,590 8,356 10,319 10,795 12,072 13,218 15,823
In addition the Research Councils have supported further research relating to energy in the work of the Tyndall Centre for climate change research, which has some £15.6 million funding from Research Councils over 2000-09, and in the work of the UK Energy Research Centre which commenced operation in 2004, with a budget of £13.9 million for 2004-09.