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63140

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Energy Supply
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what they are doing to ensure resilience of energy supply for the United Kingdom and its citizens.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	uin	HL549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government conducts regular assessments to identify risks to energy supply including through the National Risk Assessment and National Security Risk Assessment processes. Government works closely with the supply industry and other stakeholders to ensure there are appropriate mitigation measures in place to strengthen resilience and to protect against risks where it is possible and value for money to do so. For example, supplies of power, gas and fuel across the country were robust to the major flooding earlier this year (though power supplies to flooded properties must be disconnected for safety reasons).</p><p>Further, in the event of a situation which threatened to disrupt energy supplies to customers, Government and industry have robust plans in place to manage and respond to such events, which are exercised on a regular basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/06/2014 12:49:09 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

50252

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which official, with what job title, is responsible and accountable for departmental management information in the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL6970
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>Angie Ridgwell, Director General for Finance and Corporate Services, is the lead official responsible and accountable for management information within DECC.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

50272

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Deighton on 6 May (WA 368–70), what was the breakdown of departmental private office spending on Government Procurement Cards in the Department for Energy and Climate Change between 2008–09 and 2009–10.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Seccombe
	uin	HL6990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>GPC spend above £500 by the Department are published on the GOV.UK website. Details for May 2012 to March 2014 are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/gpc-departmental-spend-over-500" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/gpc-departmental-spend-over-500</a></p><p> </p><p>Details for April 2010 to April 2012 are archived at:</p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121025080026/http:/www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/accesstoinform/expenditure/spend_over_500/spend_over_500.aspx" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121025080026/http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/accesstoinform/expenditure/spend_over_500/spend_over_500.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold records of any details prior to April 2010. Those for 2008-09 and 2009-10 were held as a mixture of electronic and paper records by both BIS and Defra. Locating and retrieving these records would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	2097 label Biography information for Baroness Seccombe

50497

	registered interest
	date	12/05/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they intend to publish drafts of the several orders and regulations implementing the electricity market reforms under the Energy Act 2013; when they plan to table motions in both Houses of Parliament to enable the drafts to be debated; and when they expect that any orders and regulations that are approved will come into force.
	tabling member printed	Lord Jenkin of Roding
	uin	HL7019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>The implementing secondary legislation for Electricity Market Reform (EMR) is currently being finalised. It is the Government's intention that these regulations will be laid before the House at the beginning of June 2014 and published concurrently.</p><p> </p><p>The regulations will then be scrutinised by both the JCSI (Joint Committee on Secondary Legislation) and the SLSC (Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee). Should the regulations be approved by the committees, then Business Managers in both Houses will be asked to schedule scrutiny debates. Once debated, approval motions will be tabled in both Houses.</p><p> </p><p>Subject to the will of Parliament, it is intended that the Regulations will come into force around 1 August 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally at the beginning of June, the Government will publish the response to four consultations:</p><p>· Electricity Market Reform: Consultation on Proposals for Implementation (October 2013)</p><p>· EMR: Consultation on industry code and licence modifications (January 2014)</p><p>· EMR: Contracts for Difference Regulations - Consultation on Directions to Offer Contracts for Difference (March 2014)</p><p>· EMR: Consultation on Balancing and Settlement Code subsidiary documents (April 2014)</p><p>We will also publish an accompanying handbook setting out the final detailed policy of EMR, titled <em>Implementing Electricity Market Reform. </em></p><p>The publication of this information alongside the laying of legislation provides certainty to industry on final EMR policy design and keeps EMR on track for delivery this year.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	1097 label Biography information for Lord Jenkin of Roding

58568

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Energy: Prices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect the first Contracts for Difference auction to take place; when they expect the Offtaker of Last Resort to be operational; whether those dates have changed from the dates given to Parliament during the passage of the Energy Act 2013; and if so, why.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL93
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The policy design of the Offtaker of Last Resort (OLR) is at an advanced stage, and the detail of the proposals has been recently consulted on. We are on track to deliver the final policy and introduce enabling regulations ahead of first allocation of Contracts for Difference (CfD) expected in October 2014, with regulations on schedule to be in place when the first CfDs are signed towards the end of 2014 or in early 2015. Consequently, CfD applicants will have a high degree of clarity about the arrangements for OLR, in advance of the first auctions. This is consistent with the commitments about the timing of the OLR given to Parliament during the passage of the Energy Act 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 16/06/2014 11:27:05 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

58569

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Energy: Prices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to the different financing structures of independent generators as compared to the large vertically integrated utilities in the development of the proposal to introduce Contracts for Difference auctioning; and whether any concerns have been raised by independent generators as to their competitive position in the event that Contracts for Difference auctioning is introduced before the Offtaker of Last Resort is operational.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL94
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>My officials have worked closely with developers and financial institutions in working up the Offtaker of Last Resort (OLR) proposals in order to meet the needs of independent renewable generators. The policy design is at an advanced stage, and the detail of the proposals has been recently consulted on. We are on track to deliver the final policy and introduce enabling regulations ahead of first allocation of Contracts for Difference (CfD) applicants will have a high degree of clarity about the arrangements for OLR, in advance of the first auctions.</p><p>The move to competitive allocation of CfDs has been a long-standing feature of Electricity Market Reform. In early 2014, Government consulted on proposals to move straight to competitive allocation for some technologies, during which a number of independent renewable generators raised concerns that they had less certainty of their costs than Vertically Integrated Utilities and weretherefore faced with a higher financial risk that might undermine their ability to win a CfD through a competitive process. In the Government's response, we set out our expectation that the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) market will evolve such that PPAs could be signed on a conditional basis, providing greater cost certainty for independent renewable generators.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 16/06/2014 11:25:48 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

58570

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Energy: Prices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what evidence they have that "PPAs [Power Purchase Agreements] could be signed on a conditional basis before a strike price needs to be submitted, allowing independent generators to receive indicative financing terms from lenders", as stated in paragraph 25, page 12, of their response on competitive allocation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL95
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government's response to the consultation on competitive allocation set out its expectation that the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) market will evolve such that PPAs could be signed on a conditional basis. We have discussed this with stakeholders and have identified no significant barriers that prevent conditional Power Purchase Agreements being agreed prior to the allocation of Contracts for Difference. Furthermore, some PPA participants have since confirmed that they are prepared to consider approaches from generators on this basis. Ultimately, any decision to offer a Power Purchase Agreement will be a commercial decision for both parties.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 16/06/2014 11:24:18 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

58571

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Energy: Prices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when the consultation on the proposal to introduce Contracts forDifference auctioning was published; when the European Commission adopted the final state aid guidelines for environmental protection and energy for 2014–2020; and when the Government's response to the consultation was published.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL96
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The move to competitive allocation of Contracts for Difference has been a long-standing feature of Electricity Market Reform. In early 2014, the Government consulted on proposals to move straight to competitive allocation for some technologies. This consultation ran from 16 January 2014 to 12 February 2014; the Government's response was published on 13 May 2014.</p><p><br>EU Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy 2014-2020 were adopted in principle on 9 April 2014. Prior to that adoption, the Commission worked with member states on the development of the guidelines, including draft versions and receiving comments.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 16/06/2014 11:22:24 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

58577

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Climate Change
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made in securing a deal on the European Union's 2030 climate change reduction package, in advance of the United Nations Secretary-General's Climate Summit in September.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>The European Council in March 2014 discussed the 2030 climate and energy framework and agreed to make a final decision on the Framework no later than October this year.</p><p>The UK believes that the EU should urgently adopt a domestic emissions reduction target for 2030 of at least 40% on 1990 levels, moving to 50% in the context of an ambitious global climate agreement.</p><p>I am determined to continue working closely and intensively with all my colleagues in Europe to ensure that the EU is in a position to play a leading role at the Ban Ki-Moon Climate Summit in September.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 17/06/2014 13:14:55 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

61238

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Energy: Prices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the proposal to introduce contracts for difference auctioning has been reassessed following the European Commission's adoption of the final state aid guidelines for environmental protection and energy for 2014–2020; if so whether they specifically considered (1) the risk of the proposal failing to conform with the Commission's guidance that competitive bidding should be non-discriminatory due to the distinction the proposal makes between "established" and "less established" technologies, (2) the risk of the proposal failing to conform to the guidelines on the grounds of providing "asymmetric information" to the United Kingdom energy market, and (3) the risk of the proposal failing to conform with the Commission's guidance within General Conditions which stipulates that "the selection process should lead to the selection of beneficiaries that can address the environmental or energy objectives using the least amount of aid or in the most cost-effective way"; in each case, what conclusion they reached; and, in each case, what was the rationale forthe conclusion.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>The move to competitive allocation of CfDs has been a long-standing feature of Electricity Market Reform. In early 2014, the Government consulted on proposals to move straight to competitive allocation for some technologies. EU ‘Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy 2014-2020' were adopted in principle on 9 April 2014. Prior to that adoption, the European Commission worked with member states on the development of the guidelines, including through draft versions and receiving comments.</p><p>Implementation of key EMR policies is subject to State Aid approval, and the Government has been in discussion with the European Commission for some time to ensure our policies comply. These conversations remain constructive and we are making the strongest possible case for our policies which we believe are consistent with the new guidelines. To maintain effective working relationships with the Commission, we do not comment publicly on the specifics of cases.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 18/06/2014 12:01:13 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley