Gas Fired Power Stations

(asked on 23rd March 2017) - View Source

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 Portrait
Jesse Norman
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 29th March 2017

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

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