Results 1-20 of 107 for climate change speaker:David Kidney
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Coal (12 Nov 2009)
David Kidney: ...identified coal-fired power stations fitted with Carbon Capture and Storage as an important low carbon electricity source for the future. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change announced on 23 April 2009 plans to accelerate the demonstration and deployment of carbon capture and storage on coal fired power stations in the UK. The Government set out their...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Political Activities (12 Nov 2009)
David Kidney: ...conferences in 2009. The NDA considered Cabinet Office guidance on attending party conferences and in line with that guidance sought permission of its sponsoring department, the Department of Energy and Climate Change, before attending the conferences. The total amount claimed by the Chair of the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group for attending the party conferences was £658.20.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy: Developing Countries (12 Nov 2009)
David Kidney: ...technologies. It is currently difficult to quantify expenditure in technology as the primary purpose as the objectives of these funds and organisations include other issues, such as adaptation to climate change or capacity building, and we need to avoid double counting. However, with increased international climate finance in the future, it will become important to develop a system which...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy Supply (9 Nov 2009)
David Kidney: ...the Energy Markets Outlook, an annual report on UK Security of Supply, which includes discussion of longer term availability of fuels. Domestically, the UK has only recently passed an ambitious Climate Change Act and DECC has recently published the UK low carbon transition plan. Our climate change and energy security policies outlined there are not only reducing the UK's carbon emissions,...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Hydrogen (9 Nov 2009)
David Kidney: We have assumed that the question is intended to refer to the underground storage of hydrogen, not hydrogen fuel cells. The Department of Energy and Climate Change has not made an assessment of the merits of underground storage of hydrogen. Underground storage of hydrogen in geologically suitable sites could provide a useful buffering capacity to enable supply to be matched to demand. Such a...
- [Sir Nicholas Winterton in the Chair] — Oil and Gas (29 Oct 2009)
David Kidney: ...asked about competition and where the finishing line is, but the next stage in the competition is the spending of the £90 million that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has announced for some of the bidders to design their projects. That is the so-called FEED—front-end engineering and design—stage of the development. Let us remember...