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date	17/04/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Electricity Generation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of whether Ofgem’s proposed Inflexible Offers Licence Condition will prevent energy companies from cutting off electricity capacity in one plant and offering electricity from another plant at a higher cost; and what estimate he has made of how much revenue energy companies have potentially made via balancing payments in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	180964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>There are many factors that have driven the rise in balancing costs over recent years, including an ongoing and growing need to take actions to maintain system security and high energy prices throughout the wholesale market which have increased the costs of these balancing actions.</p><p>It is critical in all times that consumers pay a fair price for their energy. Ofgem have consulted on new rules to protect consumers from the high balancing costs witnessed in recent years and are working to introduce these new rules later this year. It would not be appropriate for me to comment on the effectiveness of the proposals at this stage.</p><p>Balancing costs over the last five years were:</p><p>- £1.2bn in 2018/2019</p><p>- £1.3bn in 2019/2020</p><p>- £1.9bn in 2020/2021</p><p>- £3.1bn in 2021/2022</p><p>- £3.9bn in 2022/23 (note: incomplete as March 2023 data is not yet available)</p><p> </p><p><em>Source: National Grid ESO Monthly Balancing Services Summary data.</em></p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 20/04/2023 15:06:13 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

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date	14/04/2021
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	Environment Protection
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 ensure consumers and businesses have access to redress and other consumer protections in emerging low-carbon markets.
tabling member constituency	Makerfield
tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
uin	180964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>As a Competent Authority, the energy regulator Ofgem, has an obligation to ensure Alternative Dispute Resolution is provided in the energy sector under the Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Competent Authorities and Information) Regulations 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem has appointed Ombudsman Services: Energy as the redress provider in the energy sector and has set out the types of dispute that Ombudsman Services: Energy can resolve, including issues relating to billing, sales, switching, supply, micro-generation and Feed in Tariffs.</p><p> </p><p>Consumer protection continues to be a central part of policy considerations in relation to new energy markets, for example we have recently consulted on extending access to redress to heat network customers.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 19/04/2021 15:40:46 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue