VoteClimate: North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park: Development Consent Application - 14th March 2024

North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park: Development Consent Application - 14th March 2024

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park: Development Consent Application.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-03-14/debates/24031435000014/NorthLincolnshireGreenEnergyParkDevelopmentConsentApplication

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Amanda Solloway)

This statement concerns an application for development consent made under the Planning Act 2008 by North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park Ltd for development consent for the construction and operation of a combined heat and power-enabled energy generating development, with an electrical output of up to 95 megawatts (MWe), incorporating carbon capture, associated district heat and private wire networks, hydrogen production, ash treatment, and other associated developments on land at Flixborough Industrial Estate, Scunthorpe.

Under section 107(1) of the Planning Act 2008, the Secretary of State must make a decision on an application within three months of the receipt of the examining authority’s report unless exercising the power under section 107(3) of the Act to set a new deadline. Where a new deadline is set, the Secretary of State must make a statement to Parliament to announce it. The current statutory deadline for the decision on the North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park application is 15 March 2024.

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