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.
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