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Renewables Advisory Board

"Advancing Renewables Together" - providing constructive evidence based advice to Government on the effective delivery of its renewable energy objectives.

The Renewables Advisory Board (RAB) provides advice to Government on a wide range of renewable energy issues. The board is an independent, non-departmental public body sponsored by the UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) that brings together government departments, the renewables industry and the unions.

It aims to provide the Minister with independent, impartial and authoritative advice on policies, programmes and measures, to improve Government understanding of the obstacles and opportunities for the development and deployment of renewable technologies in the UK, both in the short term and over the next 20 years, and make specific recommendations.

The Board is chaired by the BERR Energy Minister. The Board is composed of 12 ex officio members, drawn from Government and the Trade Unions, and specifically appointed members.

The work of the Board in 2007 is currently focussed on nine work streams that address the key issues and barriers to the achievement of Government's renewable energy policy objectives. The work streams, jointly chaired by a BERR representative and an industry member, are:

• Energy policy
• Grid
• Planning
• Offshore Wind
• Micro-generation
• Biomass
• Renewables heat
• Marine
• Input to ETF

For further information about the work of the Renewables Advisory Board, including copies of RAB publications, minutes of meetings and consultation responses is available from the Renewables Advisory Board (RAB) website.