VoteClimate: Energy Network Charges - 5th July 2016

Energy Network Charges - 5th July 2016

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Energy Network Charges.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-07-05/debates/16070550000001/EnergyNetworkCharges

15:31 Barry Gardiner (Labour)

However, as we shift towards cleaner energy to deliver our legal climate targets—an issue on which the Minister has nailed her own colours to the mast—we must also overhaul the management of our energy networks to become smarter and more flexible.

The Energy and Climate Change Committee remarked last month:

It is also worth noting that transmission tariffs for generators are higher in Great Britain than in the rest of the EU. The UK is one of only three EU member states with locational transmission tariffs. The Minister recently wrote to the Energy and Climate Change Committee, stating that

The Energy and Climate Change Committee reported on energy network charges in February 2015 and recommended that the Government and Ofgem should

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