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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent progress the Government has made on implementing its commitment to end unabated coal power generation by 2025.

On 5 January 2018 we set out that coal-fired power stations will need to close by 1 October 2025 unless they invest to reduce their emissions to 450g CO₂ per kWh. The government is exploring the appropriate legislative vehicle for introducing this emissions intensity limit and intend that it is introduced before the 2021 Capacity Market auction round. This auction round will be the first that secures capacity beyond 1 October 2025 at which point unabated coal will no longer be able to participate.