Energy Bill

I rise to speak to the group of amendments on the value to the United Kingdom of a European inter...

I would like to ask those who tabled this amendment about the sources of energy that we will be i...

Will my noble friend tell the Committee what is wrong with France? We have an interconnector alre...

We have been told that the dome is now on the power station at Flamanville, so in the not-too-dis...

Is the technology at Flamanville, which my noble friend said is five years late, not the same tec...

It is. Not only is it slow to build, but it is more expensive than some of the other kit that cou...

Perhaps we can get back to the amendment. I support it because connectivity is like an internatio...

My Lords, when I am in a really tedious meeting I sometimes flick to my iPhone if I succumb to th...

My Lords, I support in principle what my noble friend Lady Parminter is proposing in this amendme...

I rise to speak to my Amendments 55AA and 55AD, as part of this group, but perhaps I can come to ...

My Lords, I hope that my noble friend the Minister will look at these amendments as probing amend...

I want to make this point to the noble Lord. We have a department that at the moment cannot provi...

I knew that I should not have raised the noble Lord’s name, because it gave him the opportunity t...

My Lords, my name is also on this amendment and I sat on the same committee, as the noble Earl, L...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friends Lady Parminter and Lord Teverson, and the noble Lord,...

I raised a specific point about the extent to which existing capacity, which may get as high as 1...

I apologise. I had a note for the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Chester, but I forgot to a...

The noble Baroness may want to write to me rather than answer now, but if supply gets tight under...

My Lords, it might be wise for me to write in detail to the right reverend Prelate and the Commit...

Given that the Minister is not opposed to the amendment in principle, if the words “12 months” we...

I see that the debate has changed the mind of the noble Lord, Lord O’Neill, but, as with all deba...

I am just an old hand at this game. Ministers who do not have very much to offer Committees somet...

My Lords, as I have said, I read Hansard with great care to see what responses I can give to nobl...

Perhaps I may thank the noble Lord, Lord O’Neill, for the consideration he has given to this side...

I thank all colleagues on both sides of the Committee for their contributions, some of whom have ...

Perhaps this may be a convenient moment for the Committee to adjourn during pleasure until 6.18 p...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

55ZC: Clause 6, page 5, line 30, at end insert—

“...

My Lords, the amendment would add a new subsection to Clause 6. We now come to the meat of the Bi...

My Lords, we know that strike prices will differ across various technologies but I query whether ...

While I am sympathetic towards this, I have the impression that if the Government do not want thi...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for her amendment and for prompting the d...

Will the Minister answer my question?

I am having an amnesia moment. Will the noble Viscount remind me?

It is in Hansard.

Thank you.

I thank the Minister for her response. I am glad we have restored our equilibrium. We have had a ...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

55ZF: After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause—

“Ex...

My Lords, this amendment would provide for the setting up of an expert committee or advisory grou...

I express my support for the amendment. A number of the utilities are doing something on their ow...

My Lords, I sympathise with a great deal of what the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, said, but I worry t...

My Lords, I support the general thinking behind the amendment, which is different from the amendm...

My Lords, my mind goes back to the group set up last year under the chairmanship of the noble Lor...

Given that the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, wants to formalise this proposal and put it in the Bill, ...

My Lords, I would like to speak briefly in support of the amendment. I see it as a way of advisin...

My Lords, I have great sympathy with what my noble friend has said. The noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh,...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for his amendments. Amendments 55ZF and 55ZG would...

I thank the Minister for that detailed reply, and I thank my noble friends Lord O’Neill and Lady ...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

55A: Clause 9, page 7, line 29, at end insert—

“(4) Regu...

My Lords, I tabled the amendment as a result of a lot of communication from the renewables sector...

My Lords, I know that particularly in the case of offshore wind a Royal Academy of Engineering re...

I should remind your Lordships of my registered interest as a director of the Offshore Renewable ...

I hope that my noble friend will not be lured by the special pleading of the noble Lord, Lord Ber...

My Lords, I quickly intervene because I failed to declare an interest. The noble Baroness, Lady L...

I should reassure the noble Viscount that the wind farm that I inaugurated was offshore, so he is...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Berkeley for tabling this amendment for no other ...

The amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, seeks to ensure that renewable technologies...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply and am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken o...

You commented that you did not like people who said that they did not like windmills; I just fall...

Perhaps I may suggest that if the cap fits, wear it. More seriously, as regards whether the speci...