VoteClimate: Wind Power - 30th March 2010

Wind Power - 30th March 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Wind Power.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-03-30/debates/10033124000025/WindPower

Lembit Öpik

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether his Department has undertaken research into the comparative effectiveness of wind turbines and fossil fuel generation in producing electricity; and if he will make a statement. ( 320976 )

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Mr. Kidney

The analysis underpinning Renewable Energy Strategy, published in July 2009, used assumptions on the generating costs and wider impacts of wind generation. Full details of which are set out in Element (2009) and Redpoint/Trilemma (2009), which are available on the DECC website.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) have published estimated levelised costs (£/MWh, in 2008 prices) associated with 1 MWh of electricity generated, for their December 2008 report:

http://www.theccc.org.uk/pdf/TSO-ClimateChange.pdf

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