| Heading: |
Energy: Costs |
| Question ID: |
1792296 |
| UIN: |
44122 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4799 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Charlotte Nichols
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| Asking Member handle: |
charlotte2153
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@charlotte2153
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the levelised cost of energy for communicating the true cost of energy production to consumers. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-11 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4998 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Michael Shanks
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| Answering Member handle: |
mgshanks
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@mgshanks
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| Answer text: |
The Levelised Cost of Electricity (LCOE) provides a simple, high-level metric to compare the cost of building and operating different generation technologies. While valuable for comparing the relative cost of technologies to each other, LCOE does not incl... |
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| Answering body ID: |
215 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Tweeted: |
true |