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Energy Bill

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Verma (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 23 July 2013. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Energy Bill.

My Lords, I will try to get the passion back into my voice. I was responding to my noble friend Lord Jenkin. If I can just give him a word of comfort: the current Ofgem and National Grid consultation will most likely focus on ensuring that some plant is held in reserve. I know that my noble friend is concerned that there will not be enough capacity in reserve. This is a short-term intervention to bring back already mothballed plant. The capacity market is a medium-term intervention that we hope will incentivise investment. We want to ensure that the market itself stands on its own in the coming years. We are trying to assist enough capacity on the grid.

I forgot to respond to the noble Lord, Lord O’Neill, and the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, about the consultation on the SIs. We intend to consult from October on the detailed implementation of EMR. This will give noble Lords an opportunity to scrutinise the detail of the EMR ahead of Report. Further detail

of our plans for secondary legislation can be found in the memorandum that we recently sent to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. I hope that having given my noble friend that extra response, he now feels that he can withdraw his amendment.

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Reference

747 cc429-430GC 

Session

2013-14

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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