Asked by: Gordon McKee (Labour - Glasgow South)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help improve smart-meter coverage in tenement buildings.
Answered by Martin McCluskey - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Energy suppliers are extending smart metering Home Area Network connectivity in properties including tenement buildings where there are obstacles such as concrete floors between the apartment and the meter.
'Dual band' communications hubs serve many previously hard to reach properties. For the minority of properties where these cannot provide connectivity, the Alternative Home Area Network solution provides an additional smart metering HAN connectivity option for properties such as the higher floors of high-rise buildings. Finally, the Crowded Meter Room Resolution model is now available in buildings where meter room space constraints previously prevented installation of the Alt HAN solution.
Asked by: Gordon McKee (Labour - Glasgow South)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking with Rolls-Royce to maximise the role of domestic manufacturing capability within the Small Modular Reactor programme supply chain.
Answered by Martin McCluskey - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Great British Energy – Nuclear (GBE-N) has an ambition that 70% of supply chain products will be British built across the small modular reactor (SMR) fleet, including both on-site and off-site activity. We intend for this ambition to be met.
Now that GBE-N and Rolls Royce SMR have entered into contract, the two organisations are working jointly to progress supply chain planning.
GBE‑N is actively considering, as part of an SMR Industrial Strategy, the critical enablers needed to ensure the UK nuclear supply chain is match-fit and globally competitive. GBE-N's SMR Industrial Strategy is expected to be submitted to government later this year.