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- Upcoming Business – Lords: Grand Committee (4 June 2013)
Planning Act 2008 (Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects) (Electric Lines) Order 2013 – Baroness Verma.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Climate Change (21 May 2013)
Baroness Verma: There are many ways to analyse time series, including the use of physical and statistical models. The relevance of any technique depends on the question asked about the data. The Met Office has compared the likelihood 1 of the two specified models for fitting the three main independent global near-surface temperature time series (originating from UK Met Office and NASA and NOAA in the US),...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Nuclear Waste (21 May 2013)
Baroness Verma: As part of its agreed strategy, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is investigating options for waste storage, including whether to consolidate the wastes that it owns to reduce the number of existing storage locations. Other waste owners are also being considered. This work has already resulted in the publication of several studies. In respect of the waste from any new nuclear power...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Renewable Energy (21 May 2013)
Baroness Verma: The department has put in place a range of incentives and other measures, such as the Renewables Obligation, to support deployment of renewable technologies, including tidal and biomass projects. Our electricity market reforms will introduce contracts for difference (CfDs): long-term contracts for low-carbon electricity generation that ensure that generators that are successful in being...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Wind Farms (16 May 2013)
Baroness Verma: The impact of the carbon price support mechanism on wholesale prices, as well as other evidence on expected cost and revenues for wind farms, was taken account of in the analysis to inform the renewables obligation banding review. This is detailed in the final stage impact assessment published in July 20121. DECC has not estimated the effect of the carbon price support mechanism in isolation....
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Tidal Generation (14 May 2013)
Baroness Verma: We recognise that a traditional tidal barrage is not the only way of exploiting the outstanding resource of the Severn estuary. The Government are keen to hear about well developed proposals for harnessing the power of the Severn estuary. However, any scheme would need strong evidence of value for money, economic benefits, energy saving and environmental impact mitigation before the...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Wind Turbines (14 May 2013)
Baroness Verma: All the jobs estimated under the various “build” scenarios for offshore wind in the RenewableUK report Working for a Green Britain Volume 2 would be based in the UK.
- Climate Change — Question (25 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: My Lords, the Government are committed to taking decisive action on climate change. Our electricity market reform is the biggest change to the UK electricity market since privatisation and is needed to ensure that we have a diverse range of energy supplies and achieve our emissions reduction targets. At EU level, the Government support current proposals to strengthen the EU emissions trading...
- Climate Change — Question (25 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: My Lords, I join the noble Baroness in her great disappointment that this occurred. However, we are a democracy and are allowed to think for ourselves.
- Climate Change — Question (25 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: I might just sit down at this point. However, we also recognise that we need to make progress and we will support and engage very strongly with the EU to try to ensure that we get measures to reform the EU ETS. We are calling for a clear timetable for legislative proposals on structural reform to be put forward.
- Climate Change — Question (25 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: I know that my noble friend has some views on this but I cannot agree with many of them. The market for low-carbon goods and services is a growing one for the UK, so I do not buy into the argument that this is costing British business. We are increasingly able to offer renewable energies as part of a good mix of our energy supply, so that we become less dependent on international global price...
- Climate Change — Question (25 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: My Lords, the noble Lord of course knows that renewables will play a vital role in both the UK and the EU's low-carbon energy mix. We will continue to ensure that that is the case after 2020. Our own electricity market reform proposals will provide strong support for renewable electricity generation, and at EU level we need to consider, within the proposed broader 2030 climate and energy...
- Climate Change — Question (25 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: My Lords, I could not have put it more eloquently.
- Climate Change — Question (25 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: My Lords, we know that there is science out there that tells us climate change is taking place and we really need to take that science very seriously.
- Climate Change — Question (25 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: My Lords, the Government are doing a lot towards ensuring that we achieve our renewables targets. Through the processes that we have engaged in, we are making a lot of progress.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Wind Turbines (25 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: Securing economic growth is a priority for this Government. We are working in partnership with industry to develop an offshore wind sector strategy. The strategy will set out how the industry and government will work together to deliver growth, including actions on supporting UK supply chain development. The number of jobs created from Round 3 will be dependent upon a range of factors, and...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Gas (23 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: Two additional storage projects are already being constructed which will increase the volumes of gas our storage can deliver each day to around 200 cubic metres per day once completed-a 60% increase since 2010. There are a further 12 proposed gas storage projects, the majority with the necessary planning consents in place. Ofgem are currently working with industry to revise final proposals to...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Power Stations (23 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: The owners of around 8GW (of a total 28GW) of the UK's coal-fired generation capacity took a commercial decision not to invest in upgrades needed to meet the requirements set by the EU's large combustion plant directive (LCPD). The LCPD sets limits on emissions of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen and the decision not to upgrade means these plants must close when they reach 20,000 hours'...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Housing: Loft Insulation (23 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: At the start of October 2012 it was estimated that there were 7.9 million lofts (34% of homes with a loft) which did not have sufficient insulation. However, 1.7 million of these are considered to be hard to treat or unfillable, so could not benefit from insulation, and it is estimated that only around 1% of treatable lofts have no insulation at all. As set out in the table below,the vast...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (23 April 2013)
Baroness Verma: The annual budget of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is currently £3.2 billion. From its creation at the beginning of 2005-06 to the end of 2011-12, the NDA's total expenditure was £19.3 billion. During this period, the NDA's commercial income was £9.4 billion. Therefore, the net funding requirement from HM Government was £9.9 billion. There is no funding made...