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Renewable Energy: Small Businesses

Commons · Question 44960 · Tabled 8 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record

Answered 28 Apr 2025

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Asked by Dame Caroline Dinenage

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to incentivise small businesses in the (a) computing and (b) AI sector to generate their own renewable energy.

Answer

Answered by Michael Shanks, 28 Apr 2025

The Government is committed to ensuring the growth of AI and data centres in the UK is done in a way that supports our clean power mission and longer-term decarbonisation goals. The department has funded the AI for Decarbonisation Programme which supports...