Energy Bill

Page 11, line 20, at end insert—

“(d)   conferring on the Secretary of State further powers to require
operators of generating stations which use woody biomass fuel to
commit to a binding agreement to source no more than a specified
amount of woody biomass fuel that is grown in the UK”

Page 18, line 21, at end insert—

“(4A)    Provision made by virtue of subsection (3)—

(a)   must secure that capacity market rules made by the Authority may
not confer functions on the Authority except with the consent of the
Secretary of State;

(b)   may permit any such consent to be given either in relation to
particular capacity market rules or generally in relation to capacity
market rules of a particular kind.”

Page 20, line 34, leave out subsections (5) and (6) and insert—

“(5)   Subject to subsection (6), an instrument containing (whether alone or with
other provision) regulations under this Chapter may not be made unless a
draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution
of each House of Parliament.

“(6)   An instrument containing only regulations within subsection (7) is subject
to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(7)   The regulations within this subsection are—

(a)   electricity capacity regulations which—

(i)   only make provision within section 27, and

(ii)   are not the first set of electricity capacity regulations to
make such provision;

(b)   regulations under section 32 which do not make provision
amending or repealing a provision of an enactment contained in
primary legislation.”

Page 28, line 14, at end insert “at a discount to a prevailing market price”

Page 28, line 24, at end insert “(including provision for determining a market price
and the amount of a discount at any time)”