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795020

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
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: Fees and Charges
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Prior of Brampton on 26 October (HL2180–HL2182), in relation to electricity costs, what has been the percentage increase in Transmission Network Use of System charges between 2007 and 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Donoughue
uin	HL3570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>Network charging is a matter for Ofgem as the independent energy regulator, and Government does not hold the requested data. Ofgem has published an ‘Infographic: The Energy Network’ which shows that network costs fell by 45% following privatisation. There was then a planned increase in network costs from around 2006 to around 2015 to pay for network upgrades, with network costs remaining broadly flat since then. Network costs are still around 17% below levels at the time of privatisation due to improved efficiency, and have remained at around 25<strong>%</strong> of the average dual fuel bill for some time.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley grouped question UIN HL3571 HL3572 question first answered 30/11/2017 14:12:40 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	2709 label Biography information for Lord Donoughue

795021

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
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: Fees and Charges
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Prior of Brampton on 26 October (HL2180–HL2182), in relation to electricity costs, what has been the percentage increase in Distribution Services Use of System charges between 2007 and 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Donoughue
uin	HL3571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>Network charging is a matter for Ofgem as the independent energy regulator, and Government does not hold the requested data. Ofgem has published an ‘Infographic: The Energy Network’ which shows that network costs fell by 45% following privatisation. There was then a planned increase in network costs from around 2006 to around 2015 to pay for network upgrades, with network costs remaining broadly flat since then. Network costs are still around 17% below levels at the time of privatisation due to improved efficiency, and have remained at around 25<strong>%</strong> of the average dual fuel bill for some time.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley grouped question UIN HL3570 HL3572 question first answered 30/11/2017 14:12:40 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	2709 label Biography information for Lord Donoughue

795022

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
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: Fees and Charges
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Prior of Brampton on 26 October (HL2180–HL2182), in relation to electricity costs, what has been the percentage increase in Balancing Services Use of System charges between 2007 and 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Donoughue
uin	HL3572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>Network charging is a matter for Ofgem as the independent energy regulator, and Government does not hold the requested data. Ofgem has published an ‘Infographic: The Energy Network’ which shows that network costs fell by 45% following privatisation. There was then a planned increase in network costs from around 2006 to around 2015 to pay for network upgrades, with network costs remaining broadly flat since then. Network costs are still around 17% below levels at the time of privatisation due to improved efficiency, and have remained at around 25<strong>%</strong> of the average dual fuel bill for some time.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley grouped question UIN HL3570 HL3571 question first answered 30/11/2017 14:12:40 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	2709 label Biography information for Lord Donoughue

795023

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
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	Energy: Prices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings by Dieter Helm, in his report Cost of Energy Review, commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, that (1) the legacy costs from the Renewables Obligation Certificates, the feed-in tariffs, and low carbon contracts for difference are a major contributor to rising final prices, and (2) energy prices should be falling, and they should go on falling into the medium and longer terms.
tabling member printed	Lord Donoughue
uin	HL3573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>Professor Helm conducted an independent review. The Government will now take time to assess its findings carefully. We have launched a Call for Evidence to gather views from the energy industry, academics, businesses, consumer groups and other stakeholders.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 30/11/2017 14:09:24 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	2709 label Biography information for Lord Donoughue

795024

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
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	Energy: Costs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in commissioning future energy projects, what account they intend to take of the full system and intermittency cost of competing technologies, and whether they intend to implement an Equivalent Firm Power capacity auction.
tabling member printed	Lord Donoughue
uin	HL3574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>Professor Helm conducted an independent review which, among other things, made recommendations regarding full system and intermittency costs, and a system of Equivalent Firm Power capacity auctions. The government will now take time to assess its findings carefully. We have launched a Call for Evidence to gather views from the energy industry, academics, businesses, consumer groups and other stakeholders.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 30/11/2017 15:35:12 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	2709 label Biography information for Lord Donoughue

795059

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
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	Renewable Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons the amount of renewable energy generated in the UK in 2016 was lower than that produced in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	115601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>Electricity generation in the UK from renewable sources fell marginally by 0.2 per cent between 2015 and 2016, to 83.2 terawatt hours. Lower rainfall and wind speeds resulted in lower hydro and wind generation, more than offsetting a 16 per cent increase in total capacity, to 35.7 gigawatts in 2016. (Source: DUKES 2017)</p><p> </p><p>Under the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme, the cumulative total number of domestic accredited renewable heat applications in 2015 was 43,535, while the cumulative total number of domestic accredited renewable heat applications in 2016 was 52,048. Payments in the domestic scheme are paid on deemed, rather than metered heat.</p><p> </p><p>The renewable heat generated and paid for on the non-domestic scheme in 2015 was 3,772 gigawatt hours, and the corresponding figure for 2016 was 6,041 gigawatt hours.</p><p> </p><p>Further information on renewable heat deployment can be found on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rhi-deployment-data-october-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rhi-deployment-data-october-2017</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 04/12/2017 15:25:51 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

795061

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
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	Renewable Energy
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 steps his Department is taking to increase production of renewable energy.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	115603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy set out a number of steps we are taking to increase production of renewable energy. These include up to £557 million for further Pot 2 Contract for Difference auctions, with the next one planned for spring 2019, and working with industry as they develop an ambitious Sector Deal for offshore wind, which could result in 10 gigawatts of new capacity, with the opportunity for additional deployment if this is cost effective, built in the 2020s. The Feed-in Tariff scheme also remains open to support smaller-scale electricity generation.</p><p> </p><p>The Renewable Heat Incentive is funded until 2020/21, with a budget of £4.5 billion between 2016 and 2021 to deploy renewable and low carbon heat to businesses and homes.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, heat networks will play a vital role in the long term decarbonisation of heating in all of the illustrative 2050 scenarios as outlined in the Clean Growth Strategy. The Department is supporting the deployment of heat networks, through a £14 million budget provided for feasibility and project development for over 200 schemes across 131 local authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 04/12/2017 15:29:24 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

795078

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
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	Solar Power: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to respond to the Mayor of London's Solar Action Plan consultation.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	115620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not intend to issue a formal response to the Mayor of London’s Solar Action Plan consultation. However, we have engaged with City Hall on the Plan and will continue to do so as it develops.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 01/12/2017 14:51:42 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

795079

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
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	Solar Power
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 assessment his Department has made of the industrial benefits of solar power.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	115621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>Solar power is a UK success story, with rapid deployment over the last 7 years. Latest figures indicate that we now have over 12.5GW of solar capacity installed in the UK, enough to power over 2.7 million homes and exceeding our historic projections.</p><p> </p><p>Costs for solar installations have fallen rapidly during this period, allowing both domestic and industrial consumers to benefit from increasingly cheap and clean electricity. We expect subsidy-free solar to be an increasingly attractive option, with the first subsidy-free UK solar farm recently deploying. Some of the UK’s largest solar developers have said that they will be installing and connecting subsidy-free sites over the next 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 29/11/2017 15:35:53 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

795081

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
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	Solar Power
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 advice his Department has received on the lawfulness of excluding solar power from CfD auction rounds under state aid rules.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	115623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>Solar PV has not been excluded from the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme. Under the scheme approved by the European Commission in 2014, and since 1 January 2017 when biomass conversion, which had been in a third group, was integrated into Group 1, technologies are grouped into either Group 1 or Group 2.</p><p> </p><p>Solar PV is classed as a Group 1 technology so eligible solar PV projects would be able to compete for a CfD in an allocation round for these technologies.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 29/11/2017 15:37:57 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders