Electricity Generation: Costs

(asked on 22nd March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to his Department's response to FOI2021/05245, if he will publish his Department's final versions of the following files relating to calculations of the levelised cost of electricity generation (a) Solar Methodology.xlsx, (b) Onshore Methodology.xlsx, (c) Offshore Methodology.xlsx, (d) Generation Costs Summer Updates 2019 PR.pptx, (e) Offshore Wind Summer 2019 Update.docx, (f) Onshore Update Summer 2019.docx, (g) Solar Update Summer 2019.docx and (h) [OFFSEN] Electricity Generation Costs 2019.


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Greg Hands
This question was answered on 30th March 2022

The Department is not intending to publish these documents as they are draft, working documents that do not reflect the final “Electricity Generation Costs Report 2020”[1] which has been published online. As such they have been withheld under Environmental Information Regulation 12(4)(d).

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-2020

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