Tom Greatrex – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Greatrex on 2014-03-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many applications his Department has received for (a) one-year, (b) three-year and (c) 15-year contracts relating to (i) gas and (ii) coal under the capacity market.
Michael Fallon
National Grid, as delivery body for Electricity Market Reform, will run the first capacity auction in December 2014, subject to the passage of secondary legislation and state aid approval being received. Pre-qualification for the first capacity auction is expected to open on 4 August 2014 and the first round of the auction is expected to take place on 9 December 2014. Consequently, National Grid has not yet received any applications for agreements under the Capacity Market.
A detailed timetable for the implementation of the Capacity Market is available here:
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