On 1st May I launched a new renewable energy support mechanism to support the construction of new renewable energy powered electricity generating plants powered by biomass, hydro-power or wind-power. Applications will be accepted from early June.
This programme will support the construction of at least a further 400 megawatts of new renewable energy powered electricity generating plant by 2010. The overall target is to increase the installed capacity of renewable energy powered plants to 1450 megawatts by 2010 thereby more than doubling the contribution from these technologies to electricity production from approximately 5% to 13%.