Combined Heat and Power: EU Law

Mr. Love
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps his Department has taken to implement EU Directive 2004/8/EC on the promotion of cogeneration; and if he will make a statement.

Joan Ruddock
The UK has implemented EU Directive 2004/8/EC in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Details of how the directive has been implemented as at October 2007 were contained in a report to the European Commission published on the DECC website under the title “Evaluation of progress towards increasing share of high-efficiency cogeneration”.