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Energy Supply and National Grid: Costs |
| Question ID: |
1825166 |
| UIN: |
HL9714 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4937 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Strathcarron
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Lord Strathcarron
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government why the cost of upgrading the electricity grid is estimated at £60 billion in the report Clean Power 2030, published on 5 November 2024 by the National Energy System Operator, and at £80 billion in the Ofgem press release o |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-31 |
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false |
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false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1603 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lord Wilson of Sedgefield
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Wilson of Sedgefield
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| Answer text: |
The £80bn cost estimate in Ofgem’s Draft Determinations for RIIO ET3, which covers 2026/27 to 2030/31, is not exclusively spending required to deliver the transmission network needed to deliver 2030 Clean Power, but also takes into account wider operation... |
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| Answering body ID: |
215 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Tweeted: |
true |