Energy: Renewables Obligation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform for which (a) crops and (b) crop by-products renewable obligation certificates were issued for burning in power stations for each year since 2001; whether each was domestically grown or imported; and what the authorised amounts were in each case. (185619)

My Department does not hold the information requested.

However the following table provides an estimate of the types of material co-fired from 2005 until the end of September 2007 under the renewables obligation:

*Tonnes*
	Total	2007	2006	2005
Palm oil	45,728	6,202	36,697	2,829
Palm residues	1,165,087	238,216	480,043	446,828
Olive residues	514,211	131,160	99,829	283,222
Shea residues	31,558	21,357	4,781	5,420
Wood and wood residues	633,595	140,868	206,804	285,923
Crop residues and co- products	382,821	105,880	152,457	124,484
Short rotation Coppice and Miscanthus	15,626	8,881	2,439	4,306
Other	419,094	98,343	59,735	261,016

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008