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Renewable Energy: Research

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 131177, tabled on 28 February 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department has allocated to to research on alternative energy resources for (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22.

Answered on

3 March 2022

The Department primarily funds research into energy generation through UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which in 2020-2021 funded £205 million towards alternative energy resources.

The figures for 2021-22 will be available in the autumn.

Answered by

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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