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HANSARDGrid CapacityWill the Minister explain how, on his watch, things have got to such a wretched state with grid development? The grid apparently cannot now connect renewable energy plants to the…23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)The hon. Member is right that we should not seek to regulate everything out of existence. As she says, provided that the basic position is in place many industrial and commercial…23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)All right, I won’t be. The key point that I am trying to add to this morning’s debate is that a number of systems could be greatly enhanced in their operation by, for example,…23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I beg to move amendment 75, in clause 1, page 3, line 11, at end insert— “or who seeks to be a party to arrangements for the use of sequestered and transported carbon dioxide”.…23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I must say that these passages are so dry that I may be hearing the Minister’s voice in my sleep this afternoon, rather than tonight. Having said that, I assure you, Mr Gray, that…23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)rose—23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Nearly 10 years later.23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Thank you, Mr Gray. My hon. Friend makes an important point about the distinction between what we do now with carbon dioxide and what we might do with it in future. At present—I…23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Indeed, Mr Gray; thank you for reminding the Committee of that. I am grateful to you and to the Clerks for your careful consideration of how we should proceed with these new…23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I do, but—23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Thank you, Mr Gray, and I appreciate that undertaking. My knees do not necessarily work in the way that I would ideally like them to in my advanced years, but I will attempt to do…23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I do not have anything much to say about clause 7 standing part. I will have some things to say about some of the clauses that follow, but the power to grant licences is pretty…23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Yes, I do agree. Again, I appreciate that the wording of this Bill might be regarded as necessarily fairly vague, because of the fact that—in the words of Donald Rumsfeld—there…23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Yes, indeed. My hon. Friend has read my mind, as she often does. This clause is procedural, as I have illustrated, and essentially says: “There may be exemptions. We don’t know…23 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bills Discount Scheme Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Discount Scheme (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Discount Scheme (Non-Standard Cases) Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Discount Scheme Pass-Through Requirement Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Discount Scheme Pass-Through Requirement (Heat Suppliers] Regulations 2023We have been around these houses quite a few times, between us. I cannot remember exactly how many SIs we have had on the energy bill support scheme pass-through requirements—the…22 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bills Discount Scheme Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Discount Scheme (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Discount Scheme (Non-Standard Cases) Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Discount Scheme Pass-Through Requirement Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Discount Scheme Pass-Through Requirement (Heat Suppliers] Regulations 2023The Minister mentions the so-called SIC list. That is an interesting list in so much as it provides, as my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff West said, a number of categories of…22 May 2023HANSARDNon-Domestic Alternative Fuel Payment Application Scheme Pass-through Requirement Regulations 2023What the Minister says about the regulations is all good stuff in terms of the need to ensure that high users of kerosene in off-grid industrial and commercial settings get the…15 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords]Yes, I am happy to acknowledge that that is an important issue in the transition to net zero for the oil and gas industry, and that it is ripe for further legislation to outlaw it…09 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords]We have had a good, calm and well-informed Second Reading debate. Indeed, we have heard contributions from across the House emphasising the point that the Bill is necessary but…09 May 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Projects: Connection to the GridIf we are prevented from building renewable power in the first place, connection times become rather a moot point. Will the Minister explain why he has failed to lift the ban on…18 Apr 2023