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Electricity Market Reform

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

531 c178-92 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department of Energy and Climate Change

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Chris Huhne | 531 c192 (Link to this contribution) We have been clear in the White Paper on electricity market reform published today that we want to e...

Jo Swinson | 531 c192 (Link to this contribution) Feed-in tariffs are proving effective in encouraging people to generate their own renewable energy. ...

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Chris Huhne | 531 c192 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to say that the electricity market arrangements in Northern Ireland are ...

Tim Yeo | 531 c183 (Link to this contribution) As the task of attracting huge amounts of new investment into new low-carbon electricity generating ...

Chris Huhne | 531 c183 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Gentleman that the Government are extremely seized of the urgency of getting the l...

Chris Huhne | 531 c182-3 (Link to this contribution) We are certainly having to play catch-up—I make no bones about it—because after 13 years of Labour G...

Speaker | 531 c183 (Link to this contribution) Order. A great many right hon. and hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye, but there is heavy pres...

Speaker | 531 c182 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sure that the shadow Secretary of State is bringing her remarks to a close, because she ...

Meg Hillier | 531 c182 (Link to this contribution) We cannot afford the dithering, delay and postponement that has characterised Government policy so f...

Chris Huhne | 531 c178-80 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on reform of the electricity market. S...

Meg Hillier | 531 c180-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. We are pleased that he agrees wit...

Speaker | 531 c184 (Link to this contribution) I always enjoy reading the Secretary of State's book, but on the whole I prefer the abridged to the ...

Chris Huhne | 531 c184 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a very good point; he is expert in this area. The Energy Bill, which ...

Malcolm Wicks | 531 c183-4 (Link to this contribution) I will put to one side a Liberal Democrat Secretary of State attacking the Labour Government for bei...

Chris Huhne | 531 c184 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We continue to monitor that issue and are discussing it with...

Tom Greatrex | 531 c184 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State referred to the need for a ““strong, independent regulator”” to protect consu...

Chris Huhne | 531 c184 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. That is exactly right. The biggest feature of the market is the fact tha...

Tony Baldry | 531 c184 (Link to this contribution) As a Minister in the Department of Energy at the time of the privatisation of the electricity indust...

Caroline Lucas | 531 c185 (Link to this contribution) Given that electricity market reform will lead to windfall profits for existing nuclear plant of at ...

Chris Huhne | 531 c185 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept my hon. Friend's analysis. Nick Stern has described the failure to take account of t...

Charles Walker | 531 c184 (Link to this contribution) Carbon charging is a tax on jobs. Why are we retarding economic recovery by introducing what is in e...

Anne Main | 531 c185 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be aware of the amount of green tax that is already put on people's ener...

Chris Huhne | 531 c185 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is referring, I think, to the potential impact of the carbon price floor, which will o...

Adrian Bailey | 531 c185 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has said little about the role of solar energy in future policy development. ...

Chris Huhne | 531 c185 (Link to this contribution) There is a sound argument in economic literature for encouraging early-stage technologies. Many Brit...

Martin Horwood | 531 c186 (Link to this contribution) I will skip my own anti-nuclear preamble and just congratulate the Secretary of State on his plans f...

Chris Huhne | 531 c186 (Link to this contribution) There is absolutely no doubt; my hon. Friend makes a very good point. Over the past year we have had...

Chris Huhne | 531 c186 (Link to this contribution) There is a clear description in the White Paper of the different models on which we are consulting, ...

Speaker | 531 c186 (Link to this contribution) I was not very good at maths at school, but I counted five questions there. I know that the Secretar...

Laura Sandys | 531 c186 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this fundamental reform of the electricity market. To what extent do we believe we can att...

Chris Huhne | 531 c187 (Link to this contribution) That is a responsibility for Ofgem, with which I have had good discussions on the subject. I have ma...

Mike Weir | 531 c187 (Link to this contribution) I am very encouraged by the Secretary of State's response to the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Ow...

Chris Huhne | 531 c187 (Link to this contribution) I would be happy to meet my hon. Friend on the subject. I caution him, however, against being too ho...

Conor Burns | 531 c187 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State may be aware of the proposals for a wind park of between 900 MW and 1,200 MW ...

Chris Huhne | 531 c187 (Link to this contribution) That is a good point. One thing that Ofgem is currently examining is the transmission review, and we...

Albert Owen | 531 c187 (Link to this contribution) We all want to see an affordable, secure and low-carbon supply of electricity. On affordability and ...

Chris Huhne | 531 c187 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point, and yes, we are doing that. We have an enormous potential ma...

Simon Hughes | 531 c188 (Link to this contribution) The introduction of emissions performance standards is a welcome new policy, but may I ask the predi...

Chris Huhne | 531 c188 (Link to this contribution) I have made it absolutely clear that there is no public subsidy for nuclear. Let me explain exactly ...

Iain Wright | 531 c188 (Link to this contribution) The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change, the hon. Member for Wealden (Charles...

Mark Spencer | 531 c189 (Link to this contribution) Given the Secretary of State's comments about fluctuations in the price of imported fossil fuels, do...

Chris Huhne | 531 c189 (Link to this contribution) I have great respect for the hon. Gentleman's expertise in this area, but slightly less respect for ...

Ian Lavery | 531 c189 (Link to this contribution) In addition to what has been said about the British deep-mine coal industry, does the Energy Secreta...

Chris Huhne | 531 c189 (Link to this contribution) The ministerial team are committed to bringing on CCS, which will provide a place in the long term f...

Sarah Newton | 531 c188 (Link to this contribution) I believe that this reform package could unlock billions of pounds of private sector investment, and...

Chris Huhne | 531 c188 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being slightly unfair, given that our proposal provides precisely the certainl...

Barry Gardiner | 531 c189 (Link to this contribution) Four million families heading for fuel poverty does not constitute affordability; a £200 billion sho...

Chris Huhne | 531 c188 (Link to this contribution) Ofgem's overall estimate is that we need new energy infrastructure investment across all energy sour...

Chris Huhne | 531 c189 (Link to this contribution) I can assure the hon. Gentleman that coal is an important part of our energy mix now and going forwa...

Baroness Coffey | 531 c189 (Link to this contribution) My constituents in Suffolk Coastal, which I christened the ““green coast”” in my maiden speech, will...

Chris Huhne | 531 c189 (Link to this contribution) The first of the new power stations is at Hinkley point—construction of the earthworks is already un...

Andrew Percy | 531 c190 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware of the successful Pulse Tidal project in the Humber. Will he assu...

Chris Huhne | 531 c190 (Link to this contribution) Tidal power is exciting and has great prospects. We have some enormously important potential sites f...

Jonathan Ashworth | 531 c190 (Link to this contribution) Many of my constituents are understandably angry about increased electricity and gas prices—British ...

Chris Huhne | 531 c190 (Link to this contribution) It is inevitable that, given that we need the new investment that we have been discussing today, the...

Andrew George | 531 c190 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. On decentralised energy, does he agree, particula...

Mark Tami | 531 c190 (Link to this contribution) In the Secretary of State's statement, there is one mention of nuclear power, but I do not recall hi...

Chris Huhne | 531 c190 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. Investors need certainty and clarity, and that is what we ...

Glyn Davies | 531 c191 (Link to this contribution) Many of us believe that there is currently an over-dependence on onshore wind to achieve the Governm...

Chris Huhne | 531 c191 (Link to this contribution) The achievements in the low-carbon sector in China are quite extraordinary, and the hon. Gentleman h...

William Bain | 531 c190 (Link to this contribution) The United Nations environment programme has found that investment in large-scale renewables in Chin...

Chris Huhne | 531 c190 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend about the importance of community schemes. That message has come clearly...

Chris Huhne | 531 c191 (Link to this contribution) I accept the position that my hon. Friend has taken on the particular proposals that affect his area...

Paul Flynn | 531 c191 (Link to this contribution) Post Fukushima, many of our competitor countries in Europe are planning nuclear-free futures, mainly...

Chris Huhne | 531 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) No, the hon. Gentleman is wrong on that. We are setting out a framework to discourage high-carbon ac...

Eric Ollerenshaw | 531 c192 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the Secretary of State is aware that there has been a proposal in my constituency f...

Chris Huhne | 531 c192 (Link to this contribution) That is one of the technologies that we are taking forward in the renewables road map, and I want to...

Mark Durkan | 531 c192 (Link to this contribution) Whatever other concerns the Secretary of State might try to refute in relation to the carbon floor p...

Chris Huhne | 531 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) My colleagues and I have had many discussions with the solar industry. The hon. Gentleman should kno...

Lord Whitehead | 531 c186 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that a targeted capacity mechanism almost inevitably becomes untar...

Subjects

Carbon capture and storage Electricity generation Ofgem Electricity Power stations Prices Microgeneration Renewable energy Taxation Seas and oceans Wind power Carbon emissions Fossil fuelled power stations Ofgem Review

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