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

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. I want to clarify that I am not in any way saying that we should keep coal out of the capacity mechanism. I am stressing that we need to think very carefully about the design of the capacity mechanism so that it does not produce unintended consequences. I am also suggesting, as I have done in previous discussions, that there should be a back-stop measure to prevent the base-loading of coal should all the extra scenarios line up to make that the thing that they economically choose to do.

This is not about saying no to the capacity mechanism or to coal within that and I would not want to see coal closing unnecessarily. I want to see its role constrained to providing peaking and backup power rather than base-loading as it is today because it is so profitable.

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

747 c436GC 

Session

2013-14

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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