Alan Whitehead
Labour, Southampton, Test
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much was paid in constraint payments by National Grid in each year from 2009; and what proportion of such payments were received by (a) windfarms and (b) gas-fired power stations.
Michael Fallon
The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills , Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change
Total constraint payments for generators of all types since 2009 are as follows:
| £ million | |
| 2008-09 | 263 |
| 2009-10 | 139 |
| 2010-11 | 170 |
| 2011-12 | 325 |
| 2012-13 | 170 |
| Source: National Grid published data | |
The Department does not hold data on the breakdown of constraint payments for each type of technology. National Grid has advised that details of most individual constraint payments to generators are published at:
www.elexon.co.uk# and
www.bmreports.com and some aggregated data, including an explanation of constraint payments made to wind generation, is published in its ‘Monthly Balancing Services Summary’, available at:
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