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The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) submitted their response to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee inquiry into The Economics of Renewable Energy today. While the TCPAs field of expertise lies mainly in the planning, housing, development and environmental fields, the Association considers the provision of economic measures to support the widespread deployment of renewable energy to be largely dependent upon an effective and responsive planning system.

The UK urgently needs major and rapid expansion of renewable energy generation to meet our EU commitment of 15% of energy consumed from renewable sources by 2020. A key recommendation in the TCPAs submission to the inquiry is that a feed-in tariff policy, successful in Germany and now being introduced in several Mediterranean countries Spain, Portugal and Italy should be included in legislation for the UK to rapidly accelerate deployment of renewable energy generation at lower cost. A feed-in tariff system would mobilise all renewable energy options (not just those at near commercial stage such as large-scale wind, waste to energy and fuel crops), producing a diverse renewable energy mix and reducing our dependency on conventional (fossil fuel) energy over time.

To download the TCPAs full response to the The Economics of Renewable Energy consultation please see: http://www.tcpa.org.uk/consultation_files/Responses2008/20080616_TCPAResponse_EconomicsofRE.pdf