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Commons Chamber
Biomass Generation - Mon 10 Feb 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) To meet our needs between 2027 and 2031, we could seek to replace Drax with new gas-fired power stations - Speech Link
2: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) First, in comparison with the counterfactual of building new gas-fired power stations, our analysis is - Speech Link
3: Lee Anderson (RUK - Ashfield) CO2 than a coal-fired power station. - Speech Link
4: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) That is good to know.I am proud that, as a country, we have moved past coal-fired power generation, which - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Long-duration Energy Storage (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Thu 09 Jan 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) went up, the wind and sun were absent—the famous Dunkelflaute—and the reserve gas-fired power stations - Speech Link
2: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) power stations to fill the gap in the supply of electricity. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Nov 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) power stations that are on standby. - Speech Link
2: Lord Mackinlay of Richborough (Con - Life peer) station, fired by good old Kent coal from the Kent coalfields. - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) It is building the equivalent of two new coal-burning power stations every week. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) During that same week, gas-fired power stations accounted for 52.2%, nuclear for 14.3% and electricity - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renewable Energy: Costs - Thu 14 Nov 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Frost (Con - Life peer) Moreover, the fact that the gas-fired stations cannot be used at close to full capacity but must be turned - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) On the other hand, we have failed to develop nuclear power or to return to nuclear power early enough - Speech Link
3: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) What it has not led to is a simple trade-off between gas-fired power generation and renewables. - Speech Link
4: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) The national grid was built in the 1960s and ’70s, when energy was generated in coal-fired power stations - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2024 - Mon 11 Nov 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) There is no plan for new nuclear power stations; no money for the Deputy Prime Minister’s highly publicised - Speech Link
2: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) alacrity by investing in combined-cycle gas turbine generating plant, which rapidly replaced the previous coal-fired - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
Report stage - Tue 29 Oct 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) Then there are the network costs, the green levies and the cost of dispatchable power. - Speech Link
2: Pippa Heylings (LD - South Cambridgeshire) This Bill has the power to transform lives, but also to protect lives. - Speech Link
3: None will reap in energy security, clean power and new jobs. - Speech Link
4: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) Constructed in the 1960s, Longannet was once Europe’s biggest coal-fired power station and one of the - Speech Link
5: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) We are going to build new power sources. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Remembrance and Veterans - Mon 28 Oct 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jodie Gosling (Lab - Nuneaton) Our coal industry was the economic bedrock from the 19th century until the closure of Daw Mill in 2013 - Speech Link
2: Amanda Hack (Lab - North West Leicestershire) coalfields powered Britain, and Kegworth—also in my constituency—is just a stone’s throw away from the last coal-fired - Speech Link
3: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) The outrage might be reserved to fringe television stations in the UK, but it is a reminder that the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fusion Energy - Wed 23 Oct 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Jo White (Lab - Bassetlaw) power station currently being decommissioned, will be the site of the first fusion energy prototype - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) in Northern Ireland and that the Republic of Ireland banned all nuclear power generation in 1999? - Speech Link
3: Jo White (Lab - Bassetlaw) Trent clean energy supercluster, with the West Burton site aligning with three other decommissioned coal-fired - Speech Link
4: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) odd for a Minister to be privileged to be at the closure of something, but the closure of our last coal-fired - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
EV Strategy: (ECC Committee Report) - Wed 16 Oct 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Parminter (LD - Life peer) other thing that we were very clear on is the totemic issue of charge points in motorway service stations - Speech Link
2: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) Will this Government ensure that motorway service stations up their game and that grid connections to - Speech Link
3: Earl of Leicester (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The shutdown of Ratcliffe-on-Soar a fortnight ago represented the closure of Britain’s last coal-fired - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Steel Industry - Wed 16 Oct 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lee Anderson (RUK - Ashfield) China, by the way, is a world leader in renewables, yet it is still opening coal-fired power stations - Speech Link