Speeches

Alan Whitehead – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alan Whitehead on 2015-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the (a) fuel source and (b) capacity is of each of the new energy plants that obtained long term capacity contracts in the last capacity auction.

Andrea Leadsom

The information requested can be found in the following table. This includes new build Capacity Market Units (CMUs) who have obtained 14 or 15 year capacity agreements.

Plant Type

Number of CMUs

Capacity MW (de-rated)

Fuel Source

CCGT

2

1,656

Gas

CHP

1

3

Gas

Energy from waste

2

31

Waste

Small generation – gas / diesel reciprocating engines consisting of:

59

733

Gas (estimated)

615

Gas (est)

Diesel (estimated)

118

Diesel (est)

64

2,423