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date	25/04/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Electricity Generation: Diesel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much diesel electricity generating capacity is available on standby at times of peak demand; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	138013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>The vast bulk of GB peak electricity needs are now secured through the Capacity Market. The amount of diesel that wins capacity agreements in each auction varies depending on the price bid and National Grid has not broken the capacity down to identify only diesel for the current delivery year. However, around 1.45% (789 MW) of the capacity agreements held for 2017/18 are in the Open Cycle Gas Turbine &amp; Reciprocating Engine (Diesel) category, which would include diesel generators.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, National Grid maintain balancing reserves on standby, including generating capacity in the form of the Short Term Operating Reserve (STOR), and Fast Reserve. These are secured through tender rounds which run three times a year for STOR and monthly for the Fast Reserve. Amounts to be procured varying according to need and National Grid do not routinely maintain a breakdown by fuel type for successful tenders. However, a fuel type analysis of STOR* was published for the period 27/10/14-2/2/15 which showed that diesel amounted to 743MW, or 22%, of the STOR procured in that season.</p><p>*<a href="https://www.nationalgrid.com/sites/default/files/documents/STOR%20%20Fuel%20Type%20Analysis%20Summary%20%28By%20Capacity%29%20-%20Season%208.5%20-%20Final_0.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.nationalgrid.com/sites/default/files/documents/STOR%20%20Fuel%20Type%20Analysis%20Summary%20%28By%20Capacity%29%20-%20Season%208.5%20-%20Final_0.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/05/2018 17:00:16 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

891507

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the Government's policy is on carbon capture, utilisation and storage for (a) oil (b) gas (c) coal and (d) the industrial sector; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	138014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017, includes the Government’s new approach to carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS), setting an ambition of deploying CCUS at scale during the 2030s, subject to costs coming down sufficiently. The new approach sets out that CCUS has a potential role in decarbonising a number of sectors of the economy, including in industry, power and heat.</p><p> </p><p>Government will be publishing a Deployment Pathway for CCUS by the end of the year which will set out the steps needed to meet this ambition. This will be informed by the CCUS Cost Challenge Taskforce that I established and which will report to me in July 2018.</p><p> </p><p>In parallel, Government will invest £100 million in CCUS and industrial energy innovation and continue to work with other Governments and industry to drive down the cost and accelerate global deployment of CCUS. As part of this, I will be, with Fatih Birol, Executive Head of the International Energy Agency, hosting a high-level CCUS Summit on 28 November 2018 in Edinburgh.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/05/2018 17:00:38 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies