Oil Fired Power Stations
Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
Brian Binley (Northampton South, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of operational oil-fired power stations will be more than 30 years old in 2010.
David Kidney (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Energy and Climate Change; Stafford, Labour)
I have been asked to reply.
In 2010, two currently operational oil-fired power stations will be more than 30 years old, approximately 62 per cent. of current oil-fired installed capacity.
Source:
Digest of UK Energy Statistics, 2009, table 5.11, available at:
http://decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/source/electricity/electricity.aspx