Mr. Nicholas Tarrant:

. I will comment briefly on the targets and the work being done on those. I will come back to Senator Burke's questions on district heating and deal with the public lighting question.

On the targets, there have been huge successes to achieve almost 6 GW of renewables connected. We are a world leader when it comes to onshore wind. We have much more to do to get to the 17 GW between onshore wind and solar power by 2030. The pipeline coming next year, has the potential to add more than 1 GW next year. The average we would need to be at to hit the targets for 2030 is in excess of that, but a lot of work is happening regarding investment. We are scaling up the organisation. As I mentioned in my opening statement, we have a recruitment process under way. . We are also looking to build our contractor base to deliver on everything from the low voltage network, which feeds out to homes and businesses, right up to transmission level investment. We are looking to scale up resources to be able to deliver for the country out to 2030.

I will ask Mr Rossiter to make a comment on the public lighting and to mention contacts that have happened around the issue of district heating. I will make one introductory comment on public lighting. Our strategy launched in January made specific reference to the public lighting programme and the conversion to LEDs. This is a huge, multi-year, energy efficiency project that is under way across the local authorities. We are working in co-operation with local authorities on that very extensive and important programme.