PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Electricity Generation (25 February 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of existing capacity of existing Capacity Market Units that were awarded Capacity Market contracts did not place an exit bid in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.

Asked by:
Matthew Pennycook (Labour)

All existing Capacity Market Units (CMU) participating in the 2014 and 2015 auctions submitted exit bids in accordance with the auction rules. Confidentiality rules mean that the Government is unable to obtain from National Grid, the delivery body for the Capacity Market, the detailed information on individual exit bids.

Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
1 March 2016