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	date	27/01/2020
	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	Nuclear Power
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how much power can currently be supplied to the UK National Grid by nuclear power stations; and what percentage of the total power available to the National Grid that represents.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL828
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>In 2018, nuclear power stations provided 9.3 GW of installed capacity to the GB electricity system, equating to 9.2%. They also provided 65 TWh of electricity which is 20.1% of the electricity generated in Great Britain and 19.5% of the electricity generated in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Currently, 7.2 GW of the installed nuclear capacity is generating power for the grid.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 04/02/2020 15:28:09 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

1175322

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what are the current peak energy requirements of the UK; and what such requirements are predicted to be in 2032.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>National Grid has estimated energy demand for four different future scenarios in the latest version of the future energy scenarios 2019, these are presented in Figure 4.1 on pages 46 and 47. Current (2020) estimated peak annual energy requirements for Great Britain range from 900 to 1,100TWh, depending on the scenario. The same scenarios are used to predict total annual energy requirements for 2032 of between 700 and 1,000TWh.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 03/02/2020 17:11:51 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank attachment 1 file name Future Energy Scenarios 2019.pdf title Future Energy Scenarios 2019
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

1175337

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	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	European Committee for Standardization
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of Brexit on the UK's membership of the European Committee for Standardization; what discussions they have had with the British Standards Institution on the issue; and what were the outcomes of any such discussions.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Scott of Needham Market
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL809
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The European standards organisations (CEN, CENELEC and ETSI) are not EU bodies and the British Standards Institution (BSI) is independent from government. We are in regular contact with BSI and are supportive of the steps that they, as the UK’s national standards body, are taking to maintain the high level of influence of UK experts in the European standards organisations, as set out in the Memorandum of Understanding between Government and BSI.</p><p> </p><p>BSI have informed the Department of their intention to retain their membership of the European standards organisations in line with the wishes of UK stakeholders.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 03/02/2020 17:10:29 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
	tabling member	2542 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Needham Market