HC Deb 10 January 1995 vol 252 c29W
Mr. Morgan

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will make it his policy that non-fossil fuel electricity capacity contracted delivered with a provision for annual interruptions on less than(a) 20, (b) 15 or (c) 10 occasions per annum shall count towards the non-fossil fuel quota.

Mr. Charles Wardle

The Government's policy is to use the non-fossil fuel obligation as an instrument to assist promising renewable electricity generation technologies to enter the commercial electricity generation market. Competition in the allocation of contracts is an essential part of this process.