Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Electricity Demand/Capacity.
Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-04-08/debates/10040848000023/ElectricityDemandCapacity
Richard Ottaway
Those may be the Secretary of State’s figures, but will he accept that just about every independent expert predicts a growth in demand of approximately 2 per cent. per annum? If one takes the growth in green energy in the past 13 years and projects it forward, it will not even keep up with the growth in demand. Coupled with that, I strongly suspect that his figures do not take into account the increased use of electric cars. Will he not, even at this late hour, admit that he has not planned for enough generating capacity in this country for the years to come?
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