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HANSARDInternet Activity: Energy UseMy Lords, I agree with everything my noble friend said. He knows that we have a programme within Great British Nuclear to appraise the technology involved in a number of…27 Jan 2025HANSARDInternet Activity: Energy UseMy Lords, I certainly accept the challenge from the noble Lord: as we wish to see the encouragement of data centres and the use and development of AI in the UK, clearly we want it…27 Jan 2025HANSARDInternet Activity: Energy UseMy Lords, I think the noble Lord is in a better position to explain, since that was the position we inherited from his Government. It is our view, as well as that of the Committee…27 Jan 2025HANSARDInternet Activity: Energy UseMy Lords, in wishing to develop their projects, these are the matters that data centre operators have to keep under consideration. If we are interested in the growth of the UK…27 Jan 2025HANSARDInternet Activity: Energy UseMy Lords, I suspect that the experience in the US will rather depend on the price of oil and gas than on any other intervention. Let me quote the figures. In the AI market, we…27 Jan 2025HANSARDInternet Activity: Energy UseThe work of NESO in mapping out how we get to clean power by 2030 is the start of this process, and we will keep those matters within the review. We are working very hard with the…27 Jan 2025HANSARDEnvironmental Permitting (Electricity Generating Stations) (Amendment) Regulations 2024That the Grand Committee do consider the Environmental Permitting (Electricity Generating Stations) (Amendment) Regulations 2024.27 Jan 2025HANSARDGreenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2025My Lords, this order was laid before Parliament on 3 December 2024. Noble Lords will know that the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, UK ETS, was established under the Climate Change…27 Jan 2025HANSARDGreenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2025That the Grand Committee do consider the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2025.27 Jan 2025HANSARDEnvironmental Permitting (Electricity Generating Stations) (Amendment) Regulations 2024My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Offord and Lord Teverson, for their comments. I should say to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, that I am grateful for his support and for…27 Jan 2025HANSARDEnvironmental Permitting (Electricity Generating Stations) (Amendment) Regulations 2024My Lords, these regulations were laid in draft before the House on 30 October 2024. The Government believe that the answer to the challenges around energy security, affordability…27 Jan 2025HANSARDInternet Activity: Energy UseMy noble friend is right to raise this important question. I should say that the Government keep this under review. In fact, we reckon that only 0.2% of global crypto mining takes…27 Jan 2025HANSARDInternet Activity: Energy UseMy Lords, the National Energy System Operator has estimated that data centres consume around 2.5% of the UK’s electricity. The UK is not a major centre for cryptocurrency mining.…27 Jan 2025HANSARDGreenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2025My Lords, I am not sure that I can respond any further than I have already. Clearly, we are now working with the EU on some of those issues, and clearly we accept the point that…27 Jan 2025HANSARDGreenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2025My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords who spoke in this short debate. I will first respond to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, on international co-operation on carbon pricing.…27 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, I do listen carefully to what noble Lords have said. Our final debate in Committee, as the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, suggests, takes us back to some of the early debates…22 Jan 2025HANSARDSmall Modular Nuclear ReactorsMy Lords, I do not think I can give that commitment, although I recognise what the noble Lord says. I can certainly assure him that we are in close discussions across government…22 Jan 2025HANSARDSmall Modular Nuclear ReactorsMy Lords, I understand my noble friend’s impatience. It is an impatience that I share, because we can all see the potential of small modular reactors in the UK and the export…22 Jan 2025HANSARDElectricity Capacity Mechanism (Amendment) Regulations 2024That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 18 and 21 November 2024 be approved. Relevant document: 10th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee.…22 Jan 2025HANSARDSmall Modular Nuclear ReactorsMy Lords, the noble Baroness may know that I met our former colleague Richard Caborn and colleagues from Sheffield to discuss this. We have now asked UK Research and Innovation to…22 Jan 2025