§ Mr. JackTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimate he has made, in mega watts and kilowatt hours, of the amount of gas-powered electricity generating capacity which has not been proceeded with as a result of the introduction of the moratorium on the approval of licences for new gas-powered generating stations. [109359]
§ Mrs. Liddell15 proposals amounting to some 6 GW of new gas-fired capacity have been refused clearance under the stricter consents policy. It is not possible to say for certain how many of these proposals would have proceeded to construction had consent been granted, nor how much electricity would have been generated by them.
If all the proposals had proceeded to development and expected to reach 80 per cent. load factor, then they would have produced some 42,000 million kilowatt hours per year once they reached full operation. This is about the maximum output these proposals could have produced.