Hansard - United Kingdom Parliament

125W
Written Answers
20 JUNE 2011
Written Answers
126W
Energy: Conservation
Zac Goldsmith: To ask the Secretary of State for
Energy and Climate Change whether permanent
energy efficiency saving schemes will be eligible to
receive support from the Capacity Mechanism. [61042]
Charles Hendry: The Government are committed to
encouraging and incentivising energy efficiency within
the home, and in the public and private sectors, and
have a range of policies in place to achieve this including
current measures such as the Carbon Reduction
Commitment (CRC), Carbon Emissions Reduction Target
(CERT) and Community Energy Saving Programmes
(CESP), and future measures such as the Green Deal
and the Energy Company Obligation (ECO).
DECC is currently developing a White Paper which
will set out proposals for Electricity Market Reform
(EMR), including the proposed Capacity Mechanism.
We recognise that demand side measures have an important
contribution to make in supporting the transition to a
low-carbon generating mix and ensuring security of
supply. A key element of that is to consider how to
ensure our policies on security of supply incentivise
demand side measures where it can deliver energy security
in the most cost effective way.
We are considering views raised in response to the
EMR consultation on demand-side issues in development
of the White Paper, which we intend to publish before
the summer recess.
Energy: Finance
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for
Energy and Climate Change how much funding from
the public purse his Department allocated to each
energy sector in the latest period for which figures are
available. [59720]
Gregory Barker: Budgets for 2011-12 have been allocated
to energy sectors as follows:
Sector
Expenditure (£ million)
Nuclear 44
Renewables 15
Oil and Gas 13
Carbon Capture and Storage 12
Other Low Carbon 70
Historical Energy Liabilities
2,355
(nuclear and coal)
This represents 78% of the total budget for 2011-12
of £3.0 billion. The remaining budget will mainly be
spent on combating fuel poverty in the UK, programmes
to improve energy efficiency and international energy
and climate change issues.
Energy: Private Rented Housing
Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for
Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of
13 June 2011, Official Report, column 580W, on energy:
private rented housing, which organisations representing
tenants are feeding into one of the Government’s four
industry-led forums for the Green Deal. [60863]
Gregory Barker: A number of organisations representing
tenants, whether as their sole focus or under a broad
remit of representing consumers, feed into the Green
Deal forums and associated sub-groups: The National
Organisation of Residents’ Associations, North West
Tenants and Residents Assembly, Shelter, National Union
of Students, Consumer Focus, Citizens Advice, Age
UK, and Which?.
Microgeneration
Stephen Mosley: To ask the Secretary of State for
Energy and Climate Change which of the microgeneration
technologies eligible for (a) feed-in tariffs and (b) the
Renewable Heat Incentive have been subject to formal
life cycle analysis. [59747]
Gregory Barker: There is a wide body of research
into the lifecycle performance of technologies supported
by both feed-in tariffs and the renewable heat incentive.
For example, two UK specific studies estimate average
carbon footprints of 88 gCO 2 eq/kWh for domestic solar
photovoltaics and 68gCO 2 eq/kWh for 600W micro-wind 1 .
Carbon footprints for such systems have been falling
due to efficiency improvements in their production. For
comparison, another UK study estimates a carbon footprint
of 488 gCO 2 eq/kWh for electricity from a combined
cycle gas turbine 2 .
In practice, life cycle carbon and energy footprints
will vary between installations, depending for example
on the suitability of the site and the impact of this on
performance.
1
Allen SR et al, 2008, Proc ICE: Energy, 161, 73-86 and Allen SR
& Hammond GP, 2010, Energy, 35,2223-2234.
2
Odeh N & Cockerill TT, 2008, Energy Policy, 36, 367-80.
Nuclear Power
Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy
and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 7 June
2011, Official Report, column 108W, on nuclear power,
when he expects to publish his conclusions on the
consultation on proposed changes to the Paris Convention
and Brussels Supplementary Convention on nuclear
third party liability. [60546]
Charles Hendry: The consultation on the changes to
the Paris Convention and Brussels Supplementary
Convention on nuclear third party liability ran from 24
January to 28 April. Officials are now reviewing the
responses received.
We intend to publish a summary of responses and a
Government response later this year.
Nuclear Power Stations
Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy
and Climate Change what account he has taken of the
risk of natural disasters in his plans for new nuclear
power stations. [60847]
Charles Hendry: Companies operating or intending
to operate nuclear power stations must make safety
assessments, which are assessed by the Office for Nuclear
Regulation. The events that the operator must consider
include flooding, seismic activity and extreme weather.
The safety assessment should demonstrate that threats