the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment and the Department for Social Development?
1135. Mr Bell: Yes. We invited the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment into the fuel poverty partnership because of the utilities legislation and the possibility that changes in the legislation would enable the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, rather than the regulator, to set the levy. 1136. Mrs Courtney: Your submission doubts a 10% growth target for renewable energy. Can you explain why? 1137. Mr Biermann: There are problems at the moment; on the mainland with the regulator, and here with regard to network capacity. For example, the most economic sites for wind or for rural generation are usually serviced by rather weak links to the distribution networks. Upgrading these will cost money. It also takes engineering capacity, which might not be available at the moment. 1138. The report ‘Renewable Energy in the Millennium’ deals with the absolute capacity in great detail; that is the main constraint on renewable energy. Unless we move to a very actively managed n
