Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which gas-fired power stations have been built since 2010; and what the generation capacity was of each of those stations.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The generation capacity for each combined-cycle gas-fired power plant commissioned since 2010 can be found below.
Plant name | Capacity (MW) | Year of commission |
Grain CHP | 1365 | 2010 |
Langage CCGT | 905 | 2010 |
Severn Power CCGT | 850 | 2010 |
Staythorpe CCGT | 1792 | 2010 |
Blackburn CCGT | 59 | 2011 |
Pembroke CCGT | 2269 | 2012 |
West Burton CCGT | 1332 | 2012 |
Carrington CCGT | 880 | 2016 |
Source: DUKES 5.10 Power Stations in the United Kingdom, May 2016 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes (Carrington, commissioned in autumn 2016, has also been added)
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many megawatts of power generation capacity has been provided to the National Grid from gas powered stations in the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The generation capacity contributed to the National Grid by gas-fired power plant since 2010 can be found below.
Year Transmission entry capacity (MW), gas fired plants
2010 35805
2011 34101
2012 37008
2013 36511
2014 35450
2015 33075
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/540940/DUKES_5.6.xls