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Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Wednesday 6 March 2013

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

 

757-60, 765 and 805-06 and 827-28

 

Consideration of Bill


 

Energy Bill, As Amended

 

Sir Nick Harvey

 

32

 

Page  5,  line  33  [Clause  6],  at end insert—

 


 

‘ “Biomass” means fuel used in a generating station where—

 

‘(a)    

at least 90 per cent of its energy content is derived from relevant material

 

(that is to say, material which is, or is derived directly or indirectly from,

 

plant matter, animal matter, funghi or algae), and

 

(b)    

if fossil fuel forms part of it—

 

(i)    

the fossil fuel is present following a process—

 

(aa)    

to which the relevant material has been subject, and

 

(bb)    

the undertaking of which has caused the fossil fuel to be

 

present in, on or with that material even though that was

 

not the object of the process; or

 

(ii)    

it is waste and the fossil fuel forming part of it was not added to

 

it with a view to its being used as a fuel.

 

    

“Qualifying combined heat and power generating station”means a

 

combined heat and power generating station which has been accredited

 

under the CHPQA.’

 

Sir Nick Harvey

 

33

 

Page  8,  line  30  [Clause  10],  at end insert—

 

‘(10)    

A direction may not be given under this section to a fossil fuel or renewable

 

energy plant with a rated capacity of 15MW or greater that use any biomass

 

unless they are—

 

(a)    

a qualifying combined head and power generating station; or

 

(b)    

an operational carbon capture and storage plant.’.

 


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 6 March 2013                     

896

 

Energy Bill, continued

 
 

NOTICES WITHDRAWN

 

The following Notices were withdrawn on: 6 March 2013

 

Amendments 30 and 31.

 


 
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