PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Energy Supply (18 May 2016)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of extra reserve capacity in the National Grid in 2016 and 2017.
Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour)
Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour)
Answer
National Grid has procured 3.6GW of a total volume cap of 3.7GW (de-rated capacity). This is the amount that National Grid calculated in their ‘volume Requirement methodology’ to assess the amount of reserve that would be considered adequate, considering a number of sensitivities. This has been approved by the regulator, Ofgem.
Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
25 May 2016
Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.