PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
PUMPED STORAGE (15 July 2015)

Motion Details

That this House welcomes the inclusion of two pumped storage projects, SSE's Coire Glas, up to 30 gigawatt hours storage potential, and Scottish Power's Cruachan II upgrade, up to 7.2 gigawatt hours additional storage potential, in the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity's draft Ten Year Network Development Plan for 2016; notes that their inclusion will allow for the projects to be considered by the European Commission for inclusion on the EU's Project for Common Interest list of projects of significant cross-border importance; further notes that there is currently no supportive long-term public policy and regulatory framework in the UK to enable final investment decisions for large-scale storage projects to be taken; and calls on the Government to recognise the benefits that hydro pumped storage could provide to the British electricity system, by providing an investment framework that could allow Coire Glas to become the first hydro pumped storage project to be built in over 30 years in the UK which, alongside an upgrade to Cruachan, would more than double the large-scale energy storage capacity currently available on the system.

Sponsored by:
Callum McCaig (Scottish National Party)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Scottish National Party
35
92%
 
 
Independent
2
5%
 
 
Labour
1
3%
 
Sponsor List (38 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
SNP
Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
SNP
Mhairi Black
SNP
Ian Blackford
SNP
Kirsty Blackman
Aberdeen North
SNP
Philip Boswell
SNP
Deidre Brock
SNP
Alan Brown
SNP
Douglas Chapman
SNP
Joanna Cherry
SNP
Ronnie Cowan
SNP
Angela Crawley
SNP
Martyn Day
SNP
Martin Docherty-Hughes
SNP
Stuart Blair Donaldson
SNP
Marion Fellows
Lab
Paul Flynn
SNP
Patrick Grady
SNP
Peter Grant
SNP
Neil Gray
SNP
Drew Hendry
Ind
Kelvin Hopkins
SNP
George Kerevan
SNP
Chris Law
Dundee Central
SNP
Callum McCaig (Sponsor)
Ind
Natalie McGarry
SNP
John McNally
SNP
Carol Monaghan
SNP
Dr Paul Monaghan
SNP
Roger Mullin
SNP
Gavin Newlands
SNP
Brendan O'Hara
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber
SNP
Kirsten Oswald
SNP
Alex Salmond
SNP
Chris Stephens
SNP
Alison Thewliss
SNP
Owen Thompson
SNP
Mike Weir
SNP
Dr Philippa Whitford

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