To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what (a) financial and (b) other support his Department provides for viable renewable energy projects. (269195)

Changes to the renewables obligation, the main support mechanism for renewable electricity generation, took effect on 1 April. These will provide different levels of support to different technologies depending on their costs. In addition, we took powers in the Energy Act 2008 to introduce a feed-in tariff for small-scale renewable electricity generation, and a renewable heat incentive.