Gas-fired Power Stations: Capacity Mechanism - 24th March 2016

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Gas-fired Power Stations: Capacity Mechanism.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-03-24/debates/16032433000019/GasfiredPowerStationsCapacityMechanism

09:03 The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Andrea Leadsom)

New gas is already coming forward. Since 2010, six new combined cycle gas turbines have been commissioned, representing over 8 GW of capacity, but we will need more new gas as we close our coal-fired power stations as part of our decarbonisation objective. We have announced changes to the capacity market to buy more capacity, and to buy it earlier, thereby ensuring security of supply during the transition, as well as promoting investment in new plant such as gas.

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