Speeches

Alan Brown – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alan Brown on 2015-10-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2015 to Question 11023, how many developers are developing proposals at each of the sites referred to in that Answer; what indicative electricity strike rates have been discussed with those developers; and what (a) generating capacity and (b) potential timescales have been discussed with each developer in each case.

Andrea Leadsom

I set out the position below. It is too soon to say what any strike price might be for these projects.

Site

Developer

Proposed generating capacity

Potential timescale for operation

Wylfa

Horizon

2.7 GW

mid-2020s

Oldbury

Horizon

2.7 GW

to be confirmed

Moorside

NuGen

3.6 GW

mid-2020s

Sizewell

EDF/CGN

3.2 GW

to be confirmed

Bradwell

EDF/CGN

to be confirmed

to be confirmed