§ Sir Trevor SkeetTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will set out in a table the sources of electric power together with capacity of the two reconstituted Scottish integrated power companies.
§ Mr. LangI have been asked to reply.
The installed generating capacity to be available to the successor companies to the Scottish electricity boards is as follows:
Scottish Generating Plant by fuel type (output capacity) South Company (MW) North Company (MW) Hydro-electric 325 860 Nuclear1 2,055 685 Coal 3,231 600 Oil2 1,926 — Oil/Gas 634 634 Pumped Storage 400 300 Notes:
1 includes 1,290MW of output capacity at the Torness AGR station which is being commissioned at present.
2 the oil fired station at Inverkip is currently in long term storage.
This reflects the arrangements for the restructuring of the Scottish industry pursuant to Cm 327 as announced by my right hon. Friend on 18 July 1988, Official Report, column 515.
The details of the associated contracts are being worked out by the boards at present. Consideration is also being given to the desirability of some further contractual exchanges of capacity and energy to the mutual commercial benefit of both companies.