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Proceeding contribution from Colin Challen (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 30 April 2008. It occurred during Debate on bills on Energy Bill.
I had nearly given up. I appreciate a great deal of what my hon. Friend the Minister says. There are lessons to be learned from Germany; one of them is that Germany is still proposing new coal-fired power stations without carbon capture and storage, so it is not all green on the other side of the street. My question is: if a group of people want to come together to set up some kind of community microgeneration, why should we set an artificial cap on the power that the group can generate? I think that he is saying that we would artificially cap microgeneration at, say, 50 kW to preserve the renewables obligation.

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Reference

475 c394 

Session

2007-08

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Legislation

Energy Bill 2007-08
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