Question follow-through · 7358
Carbon Budgets: Tidal Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of tidal power on achieving Carbon Budget 7.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of tidal power on achieving Carbon Budget 7.
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Clean Power 2030 Action Plan recognises that while emerging renewable technologies such as tidal stream are expected to play a limited role in the 2030 energy mix, scaling up deployment of these technologies could be critical to achieving the UK’s lon...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Geothermal Power
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