Lembit Öpik

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what his Department’s latest estimate is of the cost of electricity in pence per kWh provided by (a) coal combustion plants, (b) pulverised fuel steam plants, (c) open-cycle gas turbines, (d) gas combustion plants, (e) nuclear fission plants, (f) biomass combustion plants, (g) offshore wind turbines, (h) onshore wind turbines and (i) wave and marine (hydroelectricity) plants; and if he will make a statement. ( 321340 )

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Mr. Kidney

Work is ongoing to update the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s cost assumptions for different forms of generation.

The analysis underpinning Renewable Energy Strategy, published in July 2009, used assumptions on the generating costs of different renewable electricity generation technologies, 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) has 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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