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| Renewable energy targets: Local authorities in England (212 responses out of a total 387 councils questioned) | |
| Council | Target |
| Amber Valley* | 10% + renewable energy production |
| Arun* | 10%: 2005/15%:2015/ 20%:2020 |
| Aylesbury Vale | No target; policy in development |
| Barking & Dagenham | 20% renewable energy production |
| Barnet* | Encouraging sustainable development |
| Barrow in Furness | No policy |
| Basildon | No policy |
| Bedford | 10 % reduction in carbon emissions |
| Bedfordshire | No policy |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | No policy |
| Bexley | No target; policy in development |
| Blackburn | No target; policy in development |
| Blyth Valley | 10 % renewable energy |
| Bolton* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Bradford | No target; policy in development |
| Breckland | Limited to wind energy developments |
| Brighton & Hove | No target; policy in development |
| Bristol City* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Bromley | More than 10% renewable energy |
| Burnley* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Bury | No target; policy in development |
| Calderdale | 2010: 10%, 2015: 15%, 2020: 20% |
| Cambridge | 10% renewable energy |
| Cambridgeshire | No policy |
| Camden | 10% renewable energy |
| Canterbury | To encourage all forms of sustainability |
| Carrick | 15% renewable energy |
| Charnwood | No target; policy in development |
| Chelmsford | More than 10% renewable energy |
| Cherwell | No policy |
| Cheshire* | 10% of predicted energy |
| Chester | No policy |
| Chesterfield* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Chichester | No target; policy in draft |
| Chorley | Renewable energy: 10% now, 15% from 2010 |
| Christchurch | No policy |
| City of York | No target; policy in draft |
| Cornwall | No target; policy in development |
| Corp of London | -10% CO2 emissions |
| Craven | No target; policy in development |
| Crawley | No target; policy in development |
| Croydon* | 10% reduction of carbon emissions |
| Dacorum* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Darlington | Unspecified |
| Dartford | No target; policy in development |
| Derby | No target; policy in development |
| Derbyshire* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Derbyshire Dales* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Derwentside* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Doncaster | No target; policy in draft |
| Dudley* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Durham | No policy |
| East Cambridgeshire* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| East Devon* | More than 10% renewable energy |
| East Hampshire* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| East Northamptonshire | No target; policy in development |
| E. Riding of Yorkshire | No target; policy in development |
| Ealing | More than 10% renewable energy |
| East Staffordshire | No target; policy in draft |
| Eastbourne* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Eastleigh | No policy |
| Elmbridge* | Promotion of energy efficiency |
| Enfield | No target; policy in draft |
| Exeter | No target; policy in development |
| Fareham | No target; policy in draft |
| Forest Heath | More than 10% renewable energy |
| Gateshead | 10% energy |
| Gloucester | More than 10% renewable energy production |
| Greenwich | No target; policy in draft |
| Great Yarmouth | No policy |
| Guildford | 2006: 10%, 2011: 25% renewable energy |
| Hackney | No policy |
| Hambleton | 10% renewable energy |
| Hammersmith & Fulham* | 10% renewable energy |
| Haringey | 10% renewable energy |
| Harlow | No target; policy in development |
| Harrogate | 10% renewable energy |
| Harrow | No target; policy in development |
| Hart | No target; policy in development |
| Hastings | No target; policy in draft |
| Havant* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Havering | No policy |
| Herefordshire | No policy |
| Hertfordshire | No policy |
| Hillingdon | More than 10% renewable energy |
| Huntingdonshire | More than 10% renewable energy production |
| Ipswich | No policy |
| Isle of Wight | 10% renewable energy by 2010 |
| Isles of Scilly* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Islington | Exists, but unspecified |
| Kennet | No policy |
| Kingston upon Hull | No policy |
| Kirklees | 30% renewable energy production by 2011 |
| Lambeth | More than 10 renewable energy |
| Lancaster* | Renewable energy production i) 10% ii) 15% |
| Leeds | No target; policy in development |
| Leicester* | Currently 10%, annual increment of 1% |
| Lewes | No policy |
| Lewisham | No target; policy in draft |
| Lichfield | No target other than renewable energy statement |
| Lincoln | No policy |
| Lincolnshire* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Luton* | More than 10% renewable energy |
| Macclesfield | No policy |
| Maidstone | No target; policy in draft |
| Malvern Hills* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Manchester | No target; policy in development |
| Melton | No target; policy in draft |
| Merton* | -10% CO2 emmissions, %3E10% renewable |
| Mid Bedfordshire* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Middlesbrough | More than 10% renewable energy production |
| Milton Keynes* | More than 10% renewable energy |
| North Cornwall | 10% renewable energy |
| North Devon* | More than 15% renewable energy |
| North Dorset | No policy |
| N. E. Derbyshire | No policy |
| N. E. Lincolnshire | No target; policy in development |
| North Hertfordshire* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| North Kesteven* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| North Tyneside* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| North Warwickshire | 10% renewable energy production |
| North Wiltshire | Potentially 10% renewable energy |
| North Yorkshire | No target; policy in development |
| New Forest* | Encouraging renewable energy |
| Newcastle under Lyme | %3E 10% renewable energy production |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | Unspecified |
| Newham | More than 10% renewable energy production |
| North Lincolnshire | No target; policy in development |
| North Norfolk | No target; policy in development |
| North Somerset | 15% renewable energy |
| Northampton | No policy |
| Northamptonshire* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Northumberland* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Norwich | No target; policy in draft |
| Nottingham | No policy |
| Oldham | More than 10% renewable energy |
| Oxfordshire | No target; policy in development |
| Penwith* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Poole | No target; policy in development |
| Portsmouth | No target; policy in draft |
| Purbeck | No target; policy in development |
| Reading | More than 15% renewable energy |
| Redbridge | i) 10%, ii) 15% iii) 20% |
| Redcar & Cleveland | More than 10% renewable energy |
| Redditch* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Richmond upon Thames* | CO2 reduction, unspecified quantity |
| Rossendale | No policy |
| Rotherham | No target; policy in development |
| Rugby | More than 10% renewable energy |
| Runnymede | No target; policy in development |
| Ryedale | No target; policy in draft |
| South Bucks | Renewable energy promotion |
| South Cambridgeshire | More than 10% renewable energy production |
| South Derbyshire | No policy |
| South Gloucestershire* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| South Hampshire | No target; policy in development |
| South Holland | No target; policy in development |
| South Lakeland* | None |
| South Norfolk | More than 10% renewable energy. |
| South Ribble | No policy |
| Salford | Minimal impact and consideration of renewable use |
| Sandwell | No policy |
| Scarborough* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Sedgefield | No target; policy in development |
| Sefton* | More than 10% renewable energy |
| Sheffield | No target; policy in draft |
| Shropshire | More than 10% renewable energy |
| Solihull* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Somerset | No target; policy in development |
| South Somerset* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Southampton* | CO2 emissions reduced by 20% by 2010 |
| Southwark | More than 10% renewable energy |
| St Albans | No target; policy in development |
| Staffordshire | No policy |
| Stockport* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Stockton on Tees* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Stroud | No policy |
| Suffolk | No policy |
| Surrey* | 10% renewable energy production |
| Surrey Heath | No target; policy in development |
| Sutton | No target; policy in draft |
| Swindon | No policy |
| Tamworth | No policy |
| Tandridge | Eco homes excellent and BREEAM excellent |
| Telford & Wrekin | No target; policy in development |
| Tendring | No target; policy in development |
| Test Valley | No target; policy in development |
| Three Rivers | More than 20% renewable energy |
| Tower Hamlets | More than 10% renewable energy |
| Trafford | No policy |
| Vale Royal* | 10% renewable energy |
| West Devon* | 10% renewable energy |
| West Sussex | No policy |
| Wakefield* | More than 10% renewable energy production |
| Waltham Forest* | 10% renewable energy |
| Wandsworth | No policy |
| Warwick | No target; policy in draft |
| Watford | No policy |
| Waverley | No target; policy in draft |
| Wear Valley | No policy |
| Welwyn Hatfield | No policy |
| West Berkshire | Unspecified |
| Westminster City | No target; policy in draft |
| Weymouth & Portland | No policy |
| Wigan* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Wiltshire* | Policy adopted; target unspecified |
| Winchester | No policy |
| Woking | Reduce CO2 60% on 1990 levels by 2050; produce more than 20% energy production on new developments from renewables |
| Wokingham | No target; policy in draft |
| Wolverhampton | No target; policy in development |
| Worcester | No target; policy in development |
| Wychavon | No target; policy in draft |
| Wycombe | No target; policy in development |
| * Local authorities that have already adopted a renewables policy | |