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| Department for Energy and Climate Change |
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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.
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