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Draft National Policy Statement for Fossil Fuel Electricity Generating Infrastructure (EN-2)

I take the noble Baroness’s point, and she is quite right to correct me to that extent. Of course this must be shown to be practical in European conditions. I refer to these as demonstration projects rather than pilot projects. There have been small pilot plants, including one in Germany that has been in operation for more than a year, but I am talking about demonstration plants. Four—not up to four—demonstration plants will now be announced, with financial support from the electricity consumer through the CCS levy in the Energy Bill. We shall no doubt debate this. It will be subsidised not by the Government but by the electricity consumer.